Doesn't the egg get on your hand anyway when you wash the tool? Not to mention if you set it in the sink while you finish what you cooking/baking, you now have egg all over your sink. Seems like that might be a problem for those who buy this out of egg white phobia.

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I have to say this one is a dust collector. I've never had too much trouble cracking an egg. I think the key is fresh eggs, the fresher your eggs the easier it is to crack them. We have our own chickens and get fresh eggs every morning; these eggs have a clean break every time. My theory on kitchen gadgets is if you can do it just as good and just as fast without it, you'll probably never reach for it once the novelty wears off.

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I think it's pretty obvious that this one isn't meant for a 'connoisseur' of cooking. I'm pretty sure that this was designed with disabilities in mind.

If someone else can benefit from it so be it but I think we should judge it on the platform it was meant for. In that case; this is an amazing advancement for people who love to cook or bake and have lost that ability due to an accident or disability.


IMHO

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I can't see ever using this. I also don't use egg separators. As you said though, it could be great for someone with a disability.

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You expressed it's usefullness exactly: For me, it's a dust collector, a useless gadget. For my dear friend with use of only one arm, he was happy to see this gadget.

I somewhat disagree with the other commenter -- I'm not convinced it was designed for people with disabilities, although that's a happy result. No, we come up with too many useless gadgets for consumers to buy to give me confidence this was other than consumerism at its worst.

Anyway, my friend has never mastered the "one hand crack and open and dump" technique that comes naturally to chefs and others, so he ranks this up there right along with the hand-held battery operated tooth flossing device.

So, "Score!" for him, and "pass" for me.

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"disability" like "doesn't break enough eggs to be any good at it."

Yeah, I'm one of those. So much so that I never EVER break eggs into a mixture. I always use an extra bowl as I tend to spend a fair amount of time fishing for shell fragments.

So yeah: useful dust collector.

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There's enough wasted plastic used between this and that freaking "Pasta Express" thing to make a scale-size model of the Empire State building.

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Regardless of its usefulness, I cannot support any egg-related gadget that refers to "yoke" in its description unless it's designed to genetically engineer eggs to be beasts of burden.

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I think my 3 year would enjoy this. Not so much for breaking eggs but just general playing somehow. It would probably end up in his toy baskets rather than the kitchen.

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I mastered one-handed egg breaking after my first week of work in a baked goods test kitchen eight years ago, and can still do it reliably to this day, more then seven years after my mercifully short stay as an employee there. I think perhaps if people have small muscle motor control problems, or some other such disability, this may be a worthwhile device. Otherwise, it's seven dollars worth of dust collecting.

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I always crack eggs on a flat surface, like a countertop, instead of the edge of a bowl. Why? Because that's how AB does it.

I vaguely recall him saying that using the edge of a bowl is more likely to create shell shrapnel and/or break the yolk, but now it's a just a habit for me to use the counter.

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This, in a world where you can buy a device that makes a hot dog look like an octopus.
Who has room for all these silly tools in their cabinets and drawers is what I wanna know. I certainly don't.

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People always wonder why we have inventions like this. Well, haven't you ever been doing something and said, "wow! I could make a thing to do this for me!". If people didn't do that, we wouldn't have cars, airplanes, calculators, washing machines, etc.

Unfortunately, not all of the ideas actually do something useful or any better than the original way. I do want one of those pots with a spaghetti drainer on top though. I would use that damn thing every day.

BTW, I learned how to do the one-handed crack on a flat surface that all the TV chefs know... and then I UN-learned it. Poop.

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For people with disabilities, this product would be of appreciable help. Other than that, I am thinking 'What the hell?' I would go with the popular opinion, that this product is definitely not worth the attention of the majority. I am of the view that if you don't know how to break an egg properly, you have no place working the kitchen.

Yes, even if this product manages to sell reasonably well, it would most definitely become one of the many 'Dust Collectors' that most households nowadays seem to have.

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