[Sca-cooks] new kitchen appliance OT OP

[Cat Dancer]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> The main difference I see between these two gadgets though is that there are 
> some perfectly good techniques for mashing potatoes (or whatever) and they 
> aren't that much more difficult than using this gadget.
>
> However, how would you squish the hardboiled eggs into a cube shape without 
> this gadget?
>
> This still leaves the question of *why* you would want cube shaped hardboiled 
> eggs, though. I guess they could be cute on appetizer plates and such. 
> However, especially since I think this egg gadget is a fad, my tendency would 
> be to wait until the fad had passed it's zenith and then go find one of the 
> gadgets at a garage sale or thrift store.
>
> Stefan

I bought my egg cuber many many many years ago (I think I was still at a 
single-digit age) at a flea market for 50 cents. They've been around for 
an awfully long time.

The question is not really *how* you'd squish eggs, but *why* you'd squish 
eggs in the first place. It's a nifty gadget, but I somehow doubt there 
was a huge clamoring for the ability to squish eggs into cube shapes to 
cause its creation. Kind of like the Octodog.

Margaret FitzWilliam