Egg³

Have you heard of the Egg Cuber? It's this newfangled contraption that looks something like a small, plastic salt grinder. Only instead of grinding up little salt crystals, it smashes a hard-boiled egg into a cube-like shape.

To operate this little gizmo, you first need to hard-boil your egg. Then, you need to chill both the hard-boiled egg and the egg cubing apparatus (otherwise your egg won't hold its new shape). And finally, you peel the egg, place it in the cold egg cuber, and twist the top of the cuber until your egg is firmly compressed into a solid brick. Talk about making breakfast difficult. Not only do you have to hard-boil the egg. But now you need to chill it, and then allow it to hang out for a few minutes in a miniature trash compactor?

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all about creativity and originality. In cooking school, we were often graded on how innovative or unexpected our plate presentations were. But a square egg? Why would I want that? Sure it wouldn't roll around on the plate, but it looks like a miniature filing cabinet. Besides, isn't the old adage, think outside the box, not make it look like the box?

So, to whomever came up with the egg cuber - you get an A for creativity, but I think I might just hold on to my $3.00.