Before I… crack them open?
....before you put them in here:
the water cup even comes with a little needle at the bottom for hole-poking purposes, see:
sorry i meant boil not cook
WHAT IS THAT
It's an egg cooker!
It's like a toaster and an electric kettle had a baby and ...the baby boils eggs.
#is this specifically a German thing#because Germans tend to have Opinions about eggs#also the only people I know who actually know how to use an egg cup are German#teach me your ways - I still don’t understand why you’d use an egg cup. and I can’t imagine boiling eggs not in a pot on the stove
no egg cup:
egg cup:
#why is the wobble an issue you pick them up one at a time shell then and eat them like not whole but just#you hold them and bite them and eat then till there's none left? why does this need extra tools
...at this point i'm sorry to introduce...the egg spoon.
Even better news about German egg related gadgets… the Eierköpfer (it also has a super long German name), for when you need a guillotine to open your egg neatly
No offence to Germany but why are you guys so fucking insane
nothing to see here. Just normal feelings about egg.
I’m late to this party, but I’ve had one of these for at least thirty years.* (By which I mean the same one. These are nothing if not robust.) Here it is. ...Apologies for the schmutz on the lid.
The device as a whole is a perfect example of economically applied science.
First of all: why poke a hole in the egg? Because there's an air space in the more-rounded "butt end" of eggs, and if there's no way for the air to get out when you apply heat to the egg, that's the spot that's likeliest to crack. That crack may in turn run right down the egg, and let the contents out before they've had a chance to go solid. So, to prevent that happening: you poke that little hole in each egg's butt end.
Then you add water to the cooker. If you look closely at the little water-measurer, you'll see that it's got different lines pressed into it for the number of eggs you're cooking.
You fill this with water to the appropriate line, and dump the water into the cooker: then switch the cooker on.
Here, take nine minutes or so to watch the process.
...The cooker boils the water away until its internal sensor tells it the water's all gone. Then it buzzes for you to come turn it off. (The whole process is very energy-thrifty, because you're not heating more water than you absolutely need for the cooking process. It's definitely far greener than heating a whole pot of water on the stove.)
The cooker will do hard-boiled eggs perfectly (without the annoying band around the yolk that reveals the cooking process has broken sulfur bonds in the yolks, rendering their flavor less than perfect). And medium ones. (Which I've never done.) But where it really shines is when doing soft-boiled eggs, which are too delicate to eat "out of hand" without getting yolk all over you.
That's where the egg cups come in. You can see mine in the video: they're Portmeirion. I got a couple of them from the eponymous village, which we visited a decade or three back, and then added a couple more some years later.
And if you want to use an egg spoon: well, we're set up for that too. The maker on these is a German company called Mono Filio, who specialize in cool jazzy stainless steel and glass kitchenware. They don't seem to be making these any more, though. No telling where I spotted these: "somewhere over thataway" (waving vaguely at the continent just to the east) is as close as I can get at the moment.
Anyway, that's all I've got about eggs at the moment.
*It could be longer. I do remember noticing, back in the pre-turn-of-the-century days when I was in Switzerland a lot doing research for A Wind from the South and Stealing The Elf-King's Roses, that the soft-boiled eggs at German breakfast buffets were always perfect. Sooner or later I ran into a buffet where they had one of these gadgets put out on the buffet table so that people could do their own eggs rather than waiting for them to come out of the kitchen. Shortly thereafter, I bought ours. Absolutely one of the best buys ever.
