{"id":15746,"date":"2026-04-16T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/?p=15746"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:35:36","slug":"but-what-is-the-purpose-of-this-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/but-what-is-the-purpose-of-this-object\/","title":{"rendered":"But what is the purpose of this object?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"chapeau-article chapeau-article-conseil\"><span dir=\"auto\">A pearly white, a runny yolk, toast ready for dipping\u2026 A soft-boiled egg is the simple pleasure of the morning. Except when the difficult moment of cracking the shell arrives. Spoon? Knife? One wrong move, and chaos ensues: scattered shells, a burst yolk, a ruined mood. But there\u2019s a little-known utensil to avoid this morning chaos\u2026 and it looks suspiciously like a cigar cutter!<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-article\">\n<h2><span dir=\"auto\">The Egg Slicer: Small Tool, Big Ingenuity<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">At first glance, this\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">little tool is surprising<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0. Compact, often metal, with a slightly retro look, it\u2019s sometimes mistaken for a smoking accessory or a DIY tool. Yet, its function is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">quite elegant<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0: to cleanly remove the top of a\u00a0soft-boiled\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">egg without damaging the rest of the shell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Simply place the egg in an egg cup, place the utensil on top, press lightly\u2026 and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><em><span dir=\"auto\">click<\/span><\/em><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0, the lid comes off\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">cleanly and effortlessly<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">No more little pieces of shell on your plate!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span dir=\"auto\">How exactly does it work?<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">This little marvel of precision uses a simple yet ingenious technique. The egg slicer rests on a bell-shaped part that sits over the egg. By gently pulling the handle and then releasing it, an internal mechanism generates a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">controlled shock<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0wave \u00a0\u00a0that cracks the shell in a clean, circular pattern. All that\u2019s left to do is lift the perfectly sliced \u200b\u200b\u201dlid\u201d and enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">The result: a carefully cracked egg, a yolk ready to receive your toast, and a flawless table.<\/span><\/strong><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pearly white, a runny yolk, toast ready for dipping\u2026 A soft-boiled egg is the simple pleasure of the morning.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15748,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions\/15748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-recipes.milaf.ma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}