Egg slicer

Simple plastic egg cutter

Use of an egg cutter

Egg cutter that can be used to cut eggs both into slices and into sixths

An egg cutter ( Austrian : egg harp ) is a kitchen appliance that is used to cut hard-boiled eggs into even slices. These are used as a topping on bread or to garnish salads and cold platters.

Egg slicers consist of two parts, a lower part made of plastic , aluminum or stainless steel with a recess for holding the hard-boiled and then peeled egg and a swiveling upper part with thin wires that are stretched in parallel and serve as cutting edges . Pressing it down once cuts the egg into slices. If it is then rotated 90 ° once or twice and cut again, strips or cubes are created.

Similar, correspondingly larger devices are also available for cutting mozzarella .

The egg cutter was invented in 1909 by Willy Abel , who received a patent for it in 1911. In 1907 he founded the Harras factory in Lichtenberg near Berlin , where the first egg slicers were also manufactured.

Web links

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Wiktionary: Egg slicer  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ The inventive Berlin ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 21, 2017
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3. ↑ Inventive & creative. 15 Lichtenberg inventions that everyone should know , brochure from the office for economic development in the Lichtenberg district office of Berlin, no date.
4. ↑ The egg slicer was a worldwide success , article in the Berliner Zeitung (April 23, 1997)