edelson@mhuxi.UUCP (edelson) (04/23/84)
The latest Williams-Sonoma catalog offers a gadget which is claimed to
take all the guesswork out of boiling eggs. It appears to be an
ovoid shaped piece of plastic which is put in the pot with the
eggs and changes color from the periphery inward as cooking progresses.
When the color boundary passes the right point on a calibrated scale
(soft, medium, hard) the eggs are done. Anyone have any experience
with this thing?
On high -tech devices for opening soft-boiled eggs, I have a
gadget which looks like an oversize washer attached to a couple of
scissors-like handles. Placing the thing over the egg and squeezing
the handles causes a number of sharp points to protrude from the
inner circumference and pierce the shell very nicely.
Works best on the small end of the egg.riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (04/23/84)
>> The latest Williams-Sonoma catalog offers a gadget which is claimed to >> take all the guesswork out of boiling eggs. It appears to be an ovoid >> shaped piece of plastic which is put in the pot with the eggs and >> changes color from the periphery inward as cooking progresses. When >> the color boundary passes the right point on a calibrated scale (soft, >> medium, hard) the eggs are done. Anyone have any experience with this >> thing? My girlfriend's former roommate had one. It worked like a charm. It doesn't eliminate a l l the guesswork from cooking eggs, since you have to experiment just a bit to decide what point on their calibrated scale is right for you (one person's "medium" being another person's "soft", of course), but after you're used to it it's a great help. If it's cheap, I'd say buy it. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle