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[ChristinaM (Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))]

Could you show me a similar one? I want to get one for exactly that purpose.

[Midlife]

I think we may have too many kitchen tools. We use these two to chop eggs. The chopper is as old as the wooden bowl that was my wife’s great aunt’s ( we think around 100). Used it just the other day to make deviled eggs.

[retrospek]

I miss my egg slicer, but really don’t need it for much. A couple of the wires got bent by someone (?) and I couldn’t get it back in shape. That’s a hefty chopping tool you inherited! Looks heavy.

[Lectroid]

The egg slicer is good for eggs, but also mushrooms and balls of mozzarella or other semi-soft cheeses of appropriate size.

[wonderwoman]

re egg salad: me, too!!

also use the pastry blender (with the sharp blades, not wires) to make mashed potatoes for myself.

of course, i make pastry in the food processor….

[Chemicalkinetics (For the Horde!)]

My mom had a egg slicer, but I don’t. What is the advantage of an egg slicer compared to a kitchen knife? Is it because many knives will squeeze and crush the eggs, so you don’t get nice even slices? Or is it because the egg slicer is much faster?

[wonderwoman]

i do use my slicer for slicing eggs, yes to both advantages. but even as a kid i found using a slicer to crosscut the eggs for egg salad was a PITA — hence, the pastry cutter

[small_h]

@Chemicalkinetics

nice even slices

This. And give the egg a quarter turn, re-slice, voila: chopped egg.

[MsBean]

I do that too

[Chemicalkinetics (For the Horde!)]

Well, did I tell you that when I was young, I play it (egg slicer) like a harp?

[small_h]

I’ve done that. And gotten yelled at for it because “you’re gonna cut yourself!” I think this is probably why I can’t play an instrument today.

[kaleokahu (Kaleo)]

The strainer ball? This may be the exact one:

https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-Mesh-Cooking-Infuser/dp/B000BU7U0W/ref=asc_df_B000BU7U0W/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167136162413&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8411611827668921162&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033392&hvtargid=pla-310186212190&psc=1

I’ve also got one the size of a softball I use for large batches of stocks.

[small_h]

@kaleokahu

I’ve also got one the size of a softball I use for large batches of stocks.

I read this as “large batches of socks” and it made sense to me.

[Lectroid]

@small_h

I read this as “large batches of socks” and it made sense to me.

My partner has bra bags, little mesh bags she puts her bras in before they go into the wash, to keep the hooks and straps from tangling into other items.

[Autumm2 (Autumm)]

When my kids were little I put all of their socks in one for laundry. Made sorting and putting away so much easier with not hunting for baby socks

[wonderwoman]

as a kid, every time i tried to turn the egg, slices fell out.

much easier and faster: with the pastry cutter you don’t have to do them one at a time. : eggs in bowl, two, three — maybe four — strokes and voila:: ALL the eggs are chopped!

[small_h]

Same. Except mine is a big mesh bag, and it also holds sweaters.

[Lectroid]

Try putting hard boiled eggs through a meat grinder, like you use to make sausage (or, in my mother’s case, chopped liver).

‘Ground Eggs’ were always a treat for me any time mom busted out the tabletop hand grinder. Put two or three in there, grind them into a bowl, add a little salt and pepper, and voila, a kid who HATED egg yolks (that is, me) would now eat them with a spoon.

[small_h]

I live a mostly single-serving life, so my method is perfect for me. You have to hold the egg together a little to keep it from escaping.

[wonderwoman]

sounds interesting,. but i don’t make sausage and don’t have a meat grinder. so it’s the pastry cutter for me.