Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: The Egg Cuber

By: Karen UK

Karen UK — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:47:40 +0000

For tidy sandwiches, of course! Wonderful
You could have a stack for a party, drizzled with mayo – get a budding architect to give you a hand.
Or use them like those wooden blocks you played with when you were 3 years old.
Now I know what the ‘E’ in E=MC squared stands for….
And you know those square crackers? Here’s the perfect topping.
I’d better stop before I go square too!

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:29:59 +0000

This has epic possiblities. I’m one step closer to tricking my friend into thinking his world has become an 8-bit video game. Otherwise, useless. But isn’t that enough to make mass production worth it?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:13:44 +0000

I thought you’d boil the egg there, not squish it once cooked.
I just lost the faith in it hahaha.
for Anita, it would be an EGGloo

By: Erin K.

Erin K. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:08:14 +0000

For saltines, of course

By: Rae

Rae — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:43:51 +0000

While I most assuredly agree this is a unitasker, I’m one of the silly bento people who adore this device. I use it often enough to justify keeping it, and it does make some really neat deviled eggs. Whatever it takes to make making and taking my lunch more interesting – I’m in for.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:18:59 +0000

As some of the others remember… these were out in the 70s, I remember my mom having one as a kid.

The novelty wore off almost immediately because aside from deviled eggs – which were a rarity in our house – we ate our hard-boileds mashed up into egg salad where the egg shape doesn’t matter.

My mom also had a huge multitasker cemetary drawer.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:47 +0000

I think it would be useful to put the slices on crackers and stuff like that.

By: Zig

Zig — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:17:56 +0000

I think it’s cute and it’s something different. If I had a party I might buy it to do something fun and diffent with eggs.

Zig

By: gypsy packer

gypsy packer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:12:23 +0000

These guys are working from the wrong end of the problem. Fresh eggs for deviled eggs are notoriously difficult to shell. A device for heating shelled eggs, in rectangular containers, until set would be superb.
Meanwhile, my vintage, decorative, wall-hung, deviled egg plates will have to suffice with eggs au naturel.

By: Jennifer McIntyre

Jennifer McIntyre — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:20:06 +0000

Yep. I have this kitchen tool as well. I BOUGHT it! but I gave it to my kids for play dough. Later – I actually used it for eggs and found that the kids thought the square shape was cute. And it encouraged them to eat more eggs. Like Steve, I have other shapers, too. Have you seen the one that turns a hot dog into an octopus?!

By: Ursula

Ursula — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:59:35 +0000

One word. Triscuits.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:03:04 +0000

OMG – you can get egg shapers that turn hard-boiled eggs into bunny and car shapes! This is PERFECT for my niece! You can even get shapers that make sliced boiled eggs in heart shapes, totally romantic! I didn’t see the point of an egg cuber and now you’ve got me filling my cupboards with egg shapers… So much for uncluttering, I’m now a bento convert!!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:08:58 +0000

a lot of fun with kids – and yes, you put in hard boiled eggs when they’re still hot

By: mary b

mary b — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:44:26 +0000

What a flashback…my mother had one of those in the 70′s! It sure was a PITA to use. Of course it was soon relegated to her very large junk drawer full of unitaskers.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:43:04 +0000

Count me in on this one, too. My five year old (and her friends) would love it. And since we know a lot of people who have chickens, they’d spend a lot of time trying to convince the younger kids that someone has a chicken that lays square eggs.