Eggstractor?

"Drop 41" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta

the

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shell.

i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it.

JoAnna
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Tried it but it didn't really work. Best way I've found is to add some oil,
peanut, canola or whatever, to the cooking water and when the eggs are done
drop them into ice water so that the white shrinks away from the shell;
allow time for this to happen.

Drop 41 said:

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.

"The Queen of Cans and Jars" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Drop 41 said:

anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta

the

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

shell.

i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying

it.

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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
~~~ phhhhttt

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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.

JoAnna
176/159/120

Peel the shell under water.

TC

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anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta

the

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shell.

i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying

it.

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JoAnna
176/159/120

Peel the shell under water.

TC

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 pisses me off! and sometimes it happens to 3
out of 4 eggs! i end up just saving the yolks.

Drop 41 mumbled into his oatmeal :

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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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Drop 41 said:

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
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My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit.

Drop 41 said:

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 pisses 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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jamie ([email hidden])

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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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JoAnna
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Drop 41 said:

anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta

the

Quoted message said:

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shell.

i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying

it.

Quoted message said:

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.

The Queen of Cans and Jars said:

Drop 41 said:

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Drop 41 <[email hidden]> 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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For fifteen years she kept her virginity;
not a bad record for this vicinity."

Drop 41 said:

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?

jamie said:

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.

No, the egg is pushed out a hole in the stand, so it never gets in the
accordion. In fact, there's pretty much no maintenance involved, since
any mess winds up on the counter.
--
LCing since 7/10/04 - 6'3" 230/220/190

"You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water;
shark's in the water, our shark."

I tried it, it didn't work. I returned it to the store. Walgreens had them
last year.

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anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right

outta

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the

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shell.

i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying

it.

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JoAnna
176/159/120

Peel the shell under water.

TC

yeah - i do that. still sometimes the are all peely and come apart. i

always

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peel under water and it helps alot and I'd say i usually have no prob but
wheni get those messy ones it pisses me off! and sometimes it happens to 3
out of 4 eggs! i end up just saving the yolks.

BTW, the instructions that come with it say to dunk them in ice water.

HTH

Steve

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anyone try this thing? it's supposed to pop hardboiled eggs right outta

the

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shell.

i have a catalogue that has it for 6.95 so i am thinking about trying it.

I was looking into getting one, and then I read bad reviews about it. From
what I read, you still have to peel the part where it starts, and it only
works on eggs that would have cleanly and evenly come out of their shells
anyway (others it makes a mess out of).

I generally peel mine under running water.