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Drop 41 mumbled into his oatmeal :
anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. Our local news show did a test of them and they worked about like fingers. When you have eggs that are too fresh, they won't peel, and in the eggstractor they turn into egg and shell mush. When eggs are less fresh, they peel easier and the eggstractor works. -- Sam-I-Am 'Of course' is cyanide of the mind. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.740 / Virus Database: 494 - Release Date: 8/16/04 |
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Drop 41 mumbled into his oatmeal :
anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. Our local news show did a test of them and they worked about like fingers. When you have eggs that are too fresh, they won't peel, and in the eggstractor they turn into egg and shell mush. When eggs are less fresh, they peel easier and the eggstractor works. -- Sam-I-Am 'Of course' is cyanide of the mind. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.740 / Virus Database: 494 - Release Date: 8/16/04 |
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"Drop 41" writes:
anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it. A local TV station does new product testing, and profiled this gadget. They boiled two dozen eggs and attempted to get them peeled using the Eggstractor. They had three different people try it - two women, one man. Not ONE egg came through as advertised. Every egg had to be partially peeled by hand. I'd say, save your money. Connie ************************************************** *** My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. |
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Drop 41 wrote:
yeah - i do that. still sometimes the are all peely and come apart. i always peel under water and it helps alot and I'd say i usually have no prob but wheni get those messy ones it ****es me off! and sometimes it happens to 3 out of 4 eggs! i end up just saving the yolks. They'll probably do the same thing in that appliance. And if it's the accordion-shaped one I remember from TV commercials, it looked like it would be really hard to clean egg bits out of all those folds. The trick to easy-peeling eggs is for them to be less fresh. The egg slowly loses moisture through the shell pores, so it starts to have a bigger air space. The whites also become a little runnier (spread out more when fried), and tend less to become attached to the shell membrane when you boil them. Buy eggs and keep them for 10 days or more before boiling them, and they'll be much easier to peel. -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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Drop 41 wrote:
yeah - i do that. still sometimes the are all peely and come apart. i always peel under water and it helps alot and I'd say i usually have no prob but wheni get those messy ones it ****es me off! and sometimes it happens to 3 out of 4 eggs! i end up just saving the yolks. They'll probably do the same thing in that appliance. And if it's the accordion-shaped one I remember from TV commercials, it looked like it would be really hard to clean egg bits out of all those folds. The trick to easy-peeling eggs is for them to be less fresh. The egg slowly loses moisture through the shell pores, so it starts to have a bigger air space. The whites also become a little runnier (spread out more when fried), and tend less to become attached to the shell membrane when you boil them. Buy eggs and keep them for 10 days or more before boiling them, and they'll be much easier to peel. -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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"Drop 41" wrote in message .net...
anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it. I got this catalogue, and my husband and I laughed hysterically at it because we thought it was the most useless thing ever. If you hardboil eggs then immerse them in very cold water, you shouldn't have any trouble peeling them by hand. Anyway, looking at the thing, it doesn't seem like it would work. T. JoAnna 176/159/120 |
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"Drop 41" wrote in message .net...
anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it. I got this catalogue, and my husband and I laughed hysterically at it because we thought it was the most useless thing ever. If you hardboil eggs then immerse them in very cold water, you shouldn't have any trouble peeling them by hand. Anyway, looking at the thing, it doesn't seem like it would work. T. JoAnna 176/159/120 |
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Drop 41 wrote:
"The Queen of Cans and Jars" wrote in message ... Drop 41 wrote: anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it. i remove my hardboiled eggs from their shells for free. it's not all that difficult. gee thanks for the insight. i do it that way too but sometimes i am doing a dozen and some of them stick and get messy. i can shell out 6 bux to save time if it works. thought someone here may have had experience with it. :-P whatever. it's your money. waste it if you want to. |
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On 8/20/2004 7:42:15 PM, The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
Drop 41 wrote: "The Queen of Cans and Jars" wrote in message ... Drop 41 wrote: anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it. i remove my hardboiled eggs from their shells for free. it's not all that difficult. gee thanks for the insight. i do it that way too but sometimes i am doing a dozen and some of them stick and get messy. i can shell out 6 bux to save time if it works. thought someone here may have had experience with it. :-P whatever. it's your money. waste it if you want to. Who are you to say if it's a waste of someone else's money? -- LCing since 7/10/04 - 6'3" 230/220/190 "Here lies the body of Mary Lee, died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity." |
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On 8/20/2004 5:36:57 AM, Drop 41 wrote:
anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta the shell. i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it. I have one. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Part of that is trial and error on the best way to use it, and part of that is the shells sticking to the eggs. -- LCing since 7/10/04 - 6'3" 230/220/190 Why is the word "abbreviate" so long? |
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