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Old August 20th, 2004, 08:33 PM
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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.

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Old August 20th, 2004, 08:33 PM
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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.

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Old August 21st, 2004, 12:53 AM
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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.


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Old August 21st, 2004, 01:12 AM
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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.

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Old August 21st, 2004, 01:12 AM
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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.

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Old August 21st, 2004, 02:39 AM
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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.





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Old August 21st, 2004, 02:39 AM
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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
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Old August 21st, 2004, 03:42 AM
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Drop 41 wrote:

"The Queen of Cans and Jars" wrote in message
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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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Old August 21st, 2004, 07:12 AM
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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?
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Old August 21st, 2004, 07:14 AM
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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.
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