How do you like your eggs? Poached? Over easy? In an omelet?

Whatever your answer, there are some new egg-cooking tools that can help you in th ekitchen. All got top marks from the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.

You can cook egg-septional egg dishes with the foolproof gadget that aced Good Housekeeping's tests.

The Nordic Ware Microwave Egg Boiler ($10) is one of them. Susan Westmoreland, food director of the institute, says the gadget will cook up four eggs in a flash.

"People are really worried about hard-cooked eggs, especially because you can get that green ring and it doesn't look pretty if you're going to do something with the eggs," she said.

Westmoreland says all you have to do is load up the eggs and fill the boiler with water to the fill line, then drop it in the microwave. She says the eggs will not burst in the microwave like they typically do.

"Six minutes for soft-cooked and 12 minutes for hard-cooked. And that's it," she said. "You don't have to pierce the eggs. It takes the guess work out beautifully done eggs every time."

Another product that aced the test was the Lamson & Goodnow HotSpot Egg Poachers ($9).

The silicone egg poacher cups come in a set of two and Westmoreland says they dish out perfect little pached eggs. All you have to do is crack the eggs into the cups and boil in a pan.

"What happens is, after five minutes you get a perfect little package that you can slip right on to a piece of toast or on top of canadian bacon to make a beautiful eggs benedict," she said.

For the perfect omelet, Good Housekeeping recommends the Nordic Ware 8-Inch Restaurant Skillet ($35).

"This is a great omelet pan because it has a stay cool handle, nice sloping sides and the nonstick finish makes it really easy to get the omelet in and out of the pan," Westmoreland said.

Speaking of eggs, there is no difference in flavor or nutrition between white eggs and brown eggs. The color just tells you the breed of the hen.

And finally, there's the question of organic eggs. From a nutritional standpoint, they're the same as non-organic eggs. But they are different.

"Certified organic" means the hens that produced the eggs were fed an organic diet free of animal byproducts. These hens cannot be given antibiotics unless they're sick. They also cannot be kept in cages and must have some sort of access to the outdoor, although the rules for this are so loose that an open barn door would even qualify. But the birds are treated differently from the ones on most conventional egg farms.