Looking at egg timers, as you do. We have come a long way. Found one from the 60's, the classic hour glass, calibrated for 3 minutes and 2 seconds. Never realised my boiled eggs and soldiers as a kid were so precisely prepared. Those old folks could teach us a thing or two!

And now you can get wind up egg-timers, equally fascinating.

And an egg-shaped pod that you drop in the pan and they change colour as the eggs go through soft, medium to hard. Not sure about that one, if you wear glasses, you are going to steam up checking progress.

Personally, I'm a "take it as it comes" boiled egg eater these days. Although everyone else says my eggs definitely taste better, I can't really tell the difference any more because I never eat shop bought.

However, whenever I do eat a boiled egg I am immediately transported back to childhood, watching Spiderman cartoons and dunking soldiers often burnt to a crisp, because my mother didn't have a toaster time.

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