Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Confining – conforming or molding support
Patent
1998-08-06
1999-07-27
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Confining, conforming or molding support
30324, 30325, 30327, 99495, D7691, A47J 4328
Patent
active
059271850
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a tool for use in connection with egg boiling.
In particular, the invention relates to a tool of the type comprising a handle or a shaft and a concave liquid draining supporting element, located at the end of the handle, for supporting an egg.
BACKGROUND ART
A tool of this kind is known from SE-B-435 675.
Tools of this kind are used in connection with the boiling of eggs, whereby a raw egg is placed in the supporting element of the tool, and is lowered down to the bottom of a pot, and the emptied element is then raised out of the water. When the egg has boiled for an appropriate period of time, the tool is once again lowered into the hot water, and the boiled egg is brought into reception in the supporting element of the tool, and then the tool together with the egg is lifted up. By the ability of the supporting element of the tool to drain liquid, no significant amount of hot water will be removed from the pot by the tool together with the egg. The boiled egg may then be placed in cool water for cooling, or else the egg, carried by the tool, may be cooled under running cold water, the draining feature of the tool affording a uniform and good liquid cooling of the egg.
To minimize the risk of the egg cracking during boiling, it is furthermore advantageous to pick a hole in the bottom end of the egg, i.e. the end with the bigger radius, by means of a pin or a spike. Devices for performing such hole picking are known per se, but they constitute a separate device.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
An object of the invention is to provide the egg boiling tool with a device for picking a hole in the egg-shell, using the basic configuration of the tool for supporting the use of the hole picking device.
A further object of the invention is to provide a design for the supporting element of the tool, which makes the tool suitable for use as a stirring tool in the preparation of scrambled eggs or an omelet in a frying pan, which object also includes designing the tool in such a way as to render it easy to clean.
This invention achieves these and other objects by providing the tool of the present invention as described herein.
The tool, in a presently preferred embodiment, comprises two generally parallel and spaced apart string elements, with a plate joining and interconnecting said two string elements. The plate element has a freely depending, resiliently flexible tongue mainly extending in the plane formed by the string elements. The longitudinal centre axis of the tongue is located along a line between the two string elements, the tongue plate at its free end carrying a spike for picking a hole in the "blunt" end of the egg, said spike extending transversally relative to the plane of the tongue. The plate element touches the two string elements on the one side of the handle, the spike extending through the space between the string elements towards a plane which is a tangent to the two string elements on the second main surface of the handle.
The string elements of the handle are spaced apart, in the area of the tongue, by a distance of 1-2 cm, and the string material has a diameter of approximately 3 mm. The length of the spike may be around 2.5 to 3.5 mm. The shaft, i.e. both of the string elements, may be bent in such a way as to make the string elements and the tongue diverge in the direction of the free end of the tongue. Since the plate element interconnects the string elements, said string elements are prevented from changing their relative spacing when an egg is placed against the strings at the location of the spike. Thus the spike will be positioned at a quite accurately predetermined distance from the end of a normal egg. The egg is centered between the strings, and to the extent that the shaft is bent in the area of the spike, a defined position of the egg is also established along the shaft.
In a preferred embodiment the tool is formed from a single endless metallic string with a circular cross-section, the tool, apart from the string, being comprised
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