The Best Thing Since Sliced Boiled Eggs
Friday, November 19, 2010
One of the lovely things about a boiled egg – apart from that cosy oozing deliciously indulgent feeling and the rare joy of that coming from something that isn’t a baked item (or a pate, or... hang on, this isn’t going to work!) – is its elegant simplicity. Boiling water. Eggs. Done. No weird equipment, no tricky processes, and barely any washing up. Perfect.
And nothing inspires unnecessary attempts at improvements like perfection. So, with that in mind, I bring you...
The boiled egg mold. Because you can’t just have a perfect boiled egg when you can have a perfect boiled egg disguised as a fish. Or a car. Like this...
I’m torn – I love unnecessary kitchen gadgets as much as the next penguin (especially cute ones), but I can’t help but feel that not it detracts from that elegant simplicity. And portability. And, more importantly, creates more washing up – oh no!
Although it was interesting to learn that they are used after the eggs are cooked – more like a press than a mold, perhaps. I do wonder whether they have potential in shaping uncooked buns – like those hedgehog buns, maybe?
This one even more process and even more washing up. But the results are cute...
And, in case you want to nest food niches inside other food niches, just like a set of culinary matrioska, there are also egg molds for quail eggs. As to whether there are any for ostrich eggs, I’m still on the hunt...
