Egg Cup Design Hits the Twenty First Century

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If ingenious is what you are looking for then why not go for an egg cup that does pretty much everything for you. With this radical design you can just pop the eggs in to their cups and hang them in to your saucepan. As the eggs are immobile there is a much lesser chance that they will be cracked once they are cooked. Plus, the handle remains cool so when the egg is done you can take the egg to the running tap in one single movement (no more scrabbling around with a spoon!). All this utility and a stunningly simple design really mean that the egg cup has caught up with the century!

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For the man who has everything, but still can’t boil an egg, then why not combine the egg cup and the timer. Pop your egg in a saucepan of water, turn the egg cup over and when the sand runs out, voila! You don’t have to be a top TV chef to get the perfect boiled egg but if you combine lack of cooling skills with an eye for cool modern design, this is the egg cup for you!

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The art of loaning ideas from the past and giving them a contemporary twist is nothing new, but those with a fond remembrance of the circular swing chairs of the seventies may find a mouthful of eggy nostalgia in this design for the new century! The future of egg eating starts here – or is it the past? This looks straight out of Space 1999! Nevertheless, some like to have a talking point at the breakfast table and this will certainly focus the morning conversation!

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What is the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish every now and again? This little chap is far too good for the kids – even though you may be tempted to use him as a stocking filler as your offspring will positively adore him. A lovely iridescent blue, the egg nestles in his head and his hat is a ready made salt castor! Whether you are a thirty something bachelor who refuses to grow up or a parent desperate to widen your child’s eating habits, this simple but beautifully cute little guy may be the answer to your eggy prayers!

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You can always trust the Germans to do a reductio ad absurdum on even the most traditional of designs. Dispensing with the idea of a cup altogether, what could one call these thin slithers of stainless steel with a circular hole the size of the circumference of your average egg? Answers on a postcard, please! Meanwhile, this design would look at home in most contemporary kitchens and has an added bonus – they stack together and can be secreted away in a tiny space. They could possibly be useful as weapons if you suddenly found yourself attacked by ninjas in your kitchen (this has happened).

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If there is an artist in you, however deeply buried, then this approach to the cubist breakfast may well appear to your sensibilities. If everything in the house has to be white and ‘just so’ you may well have here the egg cup that will marry your artistic aesthetics and the demands your belly makes to be filled each morning! An egg cup should be a visual statement as much as any other item used in the kitchen, after all!

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The Robocup is a great combination of design and utility and, well, cuteness that will make breakfast time fun for even the fuddiest of duddies! The twenty first century may not be promising in terms of humanity exploring the outermost areas of the solar system but closer to home, science fiction fans can get their fix whenever they fancy a boiled egg!

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If your visual statements err towards the slightly kooky or perhaps your parents were hippies and you can’t quite rid your system of the need to surround yourself with colors and circles, then this may well be the modern egg cup you need to sate those needs. A sleek design that combines uber modernity with a slight shake of the rattle at the kitsch kitchen of yesteryear your taste for the modern and the retro can be satisfied equally by this stylish and colorful design. The post LSD trip egg cup, perhaps!

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If you like your culinary accessories to simply ooze cool and European sophistication then you can’t go wrong with stainless steel! This set has its own spoon and salt cellar. A clear, crisp design with a dash of humanity in it circularity, this is exactly the sort of egg cup Judge Dredd might have for those quick snacks after a hard day of dishing out the law!

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If you like to have ‘soldiers’ with your boiled egg, why not go to the extreme and get the real thing? The Mr Chin the egg cup is a wonderful fabrication from talented Italian designer Stefan Giovannoni. The egg cup is a collaboration between him and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan – who wanted to broaden the awareness of the culture and history of Taiwan and China in the west. They are even molded like toy soldiers, so they have a certain amount of flexibility that the child at your table and the child within will find fascinating!