Easy-outs make an excellent Christmas gift for someone you don't like. Rarely do they work if the broken bolt or plug is at all seized in the threads. Often with bolts they will make the problem worse by expanding the bolt in the threaded hole. Or the easy-out will break off in the hole...then what?
The other ideas are worth a try and have been successful. Since it is a fill/level plug it likely is not rusted because it would have oil on the other side. Depending how bad the dammage to the plug is I have been able to put the end of a wrecking bar (claw bar) cross ways in the square of the plug and turn it with a big crescent wrench. Heating the casting around the plug at the same time with an oxy-acetylene torch would help as well but will mess up the nice paint job. I only heat something like that as a last resort because of the risk of damaging something else with the heat.
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