I have a ‘clacker’ and am pretty much in love with it except for one thing. Depending, I think, upon the shell thickness/hardness (something that varies a lot more than I’d imagined) the cut it makes can be clean or rather broken. Broken means there are very small pieces of cracked shell along the line formed by the dome which means care is necessary.
My solution is to use a very thin knife i insert by pressing slightly along the crack with two fingers to open it up enough to slip in the knife edge. I then move the knife along the crack opening to 'cut away the top portion. I’ve tried just using the done itself to pry the egg open but have found that to not work very well.
Seems like a lot of extra work to my wife, who has always just used the edge of a spoon to crack in the area on the egg. Neither of us has ever used the scissor discussed here. I eat enough soft boiled eggs to look into it though.
