Presto Bento Electric Cooker

It heats up faster than a stovetop and cooks your eggs and ramen to perfection. The smooth Teflon makes it a breeze to clean. I jus tho of it sideways to make sure the hot water and soap make contact with the Teflon and not the electrical area. Dries throughly with a good absorbent paper towel. Any missed food particles will slide off with the paper towel. Highly recommend this product for regular ramen eaters like me :3

At home, working from home, more than I’d like these days. I kind of left ramen back when I left college. An Asian dude I work with turned me on to Mi Goreng; Stir Fry flavor. He recommended some other ones too that I just couldn’t handle heat wise. I still circulate Top Ramen in here and there as well. Anyway, I hadn’t thought of adding eggs to ramen noodles, let alone soft boiled, but turns out, it makes a great full meal. If you cook it a little longer the eggs will go full hard, you get used to the timing, the instructions work, as is well enough for me though. Sent one to my 17 yr old niece too.

I had intended to buy this for my work. I mean, who needs this for their home? Everyone can boil water and make instant ramen on their stove-top right? This product is designed for work offices or dorm rooms that dont have stove top ovens. But really, after using it in my home-I have decided to keep it there, and keep using it.
At first reading the instructions seemed a little more complicated than I expected…if you are cooking just the ramen its a different time, than if cooking with eggs or veggies…but after the first go-I got the hang of it immediately.
You will have to use your own separate timer though. The device itself does not buzz, chime, or blink to indicate when the cook time has completed.
The water draining feature is good for me, because I prefer my ramen without the soup.
Because this product is so new, there is a lack of tutorial videos out there on the web, but Im sure there will be some coming soon.
The egg feature is good, but you will have to do a few trial runs to find the right time for the egg of your personal liking. Mine is 6 minutes instead of the recommended 7 min.
My opinion is this is probably NOT necessary…you can certainly get along without it….but I love mine and use it enough to justify the purchase.

I honestly wasn’t sure to expect. I saw this ~2 years ago and I never pulled the trigger on buying it. I decided that I’m getting pretty tired of microwaving ramen since we don’t allow kitchen stove plugins, so I bought this.

Initially, I thought I bought an overglorified plate warmer and I was about to return it simply because the instructions were pretty… lackadaisical in describing what to do so I decided to wing it based off what the instructions said (see booklet pic.)

First time I failed pretty hard. I:
1) Filled both compartments to fill line with hot tap water
2) Cooked the egg and veggies FIRST for 7 minutes
3) Stuck the ramen in the (now boiling) water in the large compartment
4) Cooked all of it for 3 minutes.

The ramen and the veggies came out great. The egg was a disaster. I ran it under cold water and tried cracking the egg and *splut*, the uncooked yolk spewed out and for the rest of the egg, the shell stuck on. Bummer. I ate the ramen anyways and it came out just a smidge softer than al dente. Nice.

So I tried it again in almost the same order.
1) Filled with hot tap *just above* the fill lines
2) Cooked my veggies (only mushroom chunks) and egg for 7 minutes
3) Added the ramen, seasoning packet, carrots, and spinach to the ramen side
4) Cooked for 3 minutes

Now, instead of cold tap, I used a bowl of water and ice and cracked the top of the egg (since there’s usually an air pocket up there.) I shelled the egg in the ice water and cut it in half inside the soup and all I can say is… WOW. It came out just like the local ramen shops I go to. I’m blown away.

This’ll definitely stay at my work place. There’s also a scrambled egg recipe too!