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A tiny harp that turns boiled eggs into perfect identical discs in one satisfying squish.
means A handheld kitchen gadget with a hinged grid of taut wires that simultaneously cuts a peeled hard-boiled egg into even slices.
from A transparent compound of "egg" and "slicer." "Egg" comes from Old Norse "egg," which displaced the native Old English "æg" during the Viking centuries — for a while English speakers argued over "eggs" versus "eyren" until the Norse form won. "Slicer" descends from "slice," from Old French "esclice," a splinter or shaving, related to a Germanic root meaning to split. The device itself is a product of the wire-cutting kitchen tools that proliferated as mass-produced home gadgets became common, the same family of taut-wire ingenuity behind cheese and butter cutters.
- secret talents
- Slices mushrooms, strawberries, butter, and mozzarella too
- the strings
- Taut stainless wires do the cutting, not blades
- patent age
- Designs date to the late 1800s
- chef hack
- Used to fan strawberries for plating fast
westmark egg slicer — german kitchen tool brand, patented design with wire grid for slicing hard-boiled eggs into uniform pieces