World's most technical egg slicer — Episode 2: 'Absurd'

That's the essence of Jaiyant Cavale's entertaining Trends Updates review yesterday of Tuesday's pièce de résistance (top).

His appreciation — filed in Trends Updates' "Bizarre, Strange Gadgets" category — follows

Absurd Technical Egg Slicer

Talk about technology pervading all spheres of life and there are umpteen examples to be given. Here is what I found on the net, posing as the world’s most technical egg slicer. I fail to understand why someone would need a technical egg slicer when a good old butter knife is enough to slice boiled eggs.

In the quest to fool consumers and perhaps play with their zany tastes, companies will create technical egg slicers, robotic scissors, etc. However, if you want to consider the product seriously, it comes with blades that cut the eggs into halves or slices and an integrated egg piercer to prevent an egg’s shell from cracking while being boiled.

It also comes with a concave cup to support your egg’s hind while its front is being whacked off. And if you think you will slip while slicing an egg, worry not, because it comes with non-slip feet. All said and done, I would love to slice my boiled eggs with the knife I bought many years ago. I must remind myself to get the knife sharpened and have a good laugh at "technical" posers such as these.

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Poseurs — not posers.

But I digress.

I wonder what they're paying him at Trends Updates?

Yo, Jaiyant — I'll triple it and even sweeten the deal with a knife sharpener.

Let's take a meeting.