Foodiggity

  • Blog
    • Bacon ‘n Stuff
    • Beer
    • Because Japan
    • Featured Originals
    • Food Art Friday
  • About
  • Contact
  • Archive
  • Shop
  • Toggle Mobile Menu
  • Toggle Search
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Photos
  • RSS

Cube Your Eggthusiasm: The Egg Cuber

April 2, 2010 by Chris Durso

photo: Luke Mahan's flickr photostream

Apparently invented to combat pesky round eggs from rolling off plates—a mad genius, perhaps psychopath came up with the ‘Egg Cuber’. Stan Pargman set up the Square Egg Co. (seriously) in 1976 to make this contraption that encases a cooked, peeled egg and, after a few minutes, releases it reshaped.

With all the technology that we have access to, couldn’t we just bioengineer hens to produce square eggs so we wouldn’t have to buy novelty items like this on Ebay? Or perhaps that would be like trying to get a square egg through a round hole [~cue rimshot~].

Current versions of Egg Cubers, as well as the original patent can be found at foodiggity’s Facebook page.

[via presurfer]

Filed Under: Daily Links Tagged With: chicken, eggs, ephemera

Comments

  1. foodiggity says

    April 3, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    Galateadia… The second half of the story is that it was later found out that the original prototype was invented by Masashi Nakagawa—not Stan Pargman. Nakagawa confirmed that the cubed egg was for aesthetic purpose only. Good call on the Japanese influence.

  2. galateadia says

    April 3, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    This is just an Americanized version of what the Japanese have been doing in Benton for half a century. I have a set of egg molds that make bunny, car or train shapes.

  3. Samwise says

    April 2, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    This is pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay weird.

Custom Stickers, Die Cut Stickers, Bumper Stickers - Sticker Mule

Foodiggity on Facebook

Tags

advertising art bacon baking bbq beer booze breakfast burger cake candy cereal cheeseburger chocolate coffee cookies cooking cupcakes design dessert fashion food art graphic design halloween how to ice cream illustration japan McDonald's meat movies music oreos packaging painting photography pizza sculpture shop star wars sushi video wine wtf youtube

Creative Commons License
This work by Foodiggity is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Trending Posts

  • Penis-Shaped Fruit
    Penis-Shaped Fruit
  • The Top Ten Instant Noodle Bowls In The World
    The Top Ten Instant Noodle Bowls In The World
  • McDonald's Brass Knuckles Will Serve Up A Knuckle Sandwich
    McDonald's Brass Knuckles Will Serve Up A Knuckle Sandwich

Who, What, Where?

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Shop

    About

    Foodiggity is here to provide the best in food culture, news, products, and other food-related nonsense.

    Copyright ©2018 Foodiggity