Now that our son Patrick is two months short of his third birthday it has become increasingly difficult to hunt him down and “force” him to sit at the breakfast table. It takes quite an amount of inspirational and motivational efforts to convince him to eat his Honey Nut Cheerios or Corn Flakes. If you believe him, he can go months without breakfast, lunch, supper, and sleep.

Amazingly enough, the whole scenario changes dramatically when we offer boiled eggs, because we are in possession of an egg-shell-perforation-causer. We just call out to him, “Patrick, we have boiled eggs,” and he comes running from wherever he was hiding. In my personal opinion every household is incomplete without an egg-shell-perforation-causer, but it also seems the Voss household is the only one in the entire United States to use it.

It is sort of a German tradition to occasionally serve boiled eggs for breakfast, in addition to bread and rolls. My wife and I got into the habit after we had visited Germany together, and especially after a friend of ours gave us an egg-shell-perforation-causer as a gift. Eating boiled eggs is so much more fun with the egg-shell-perforation-causer, and, as I mentioned before, even Patrick loves it. You can say, the egg-shell-perforation-causer keeps our family together.

The basic problem with eating boiled eggs is to produce a clear-cut edge on top where you open a boiled egg. Many people prefer to use a breakfast knife and simply cut the top off. Such a barbaric method is simply not acceptable. The edge is too rough, and you may end up with egg shell pieces in your yoke.

The way to do it, is using an egg-shell-perforation-causer as shown in the following.

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• First you place the egg-shell-perforation-causer on top of the boiled egg.
• You lift the little spheric weight to the top of the egg-shell-perforation-causer
• Let the weight drop to the bottom of the egg-shell-perforation-causer.
• Remove the egg-shell-perforation-causer.

The egg-shell-perforation-causer has left a perfectly round perforation, and the top of the egg can be easily peeled off. The edge will be as straight as can be.

Thank you, egg-shell-perforation-causer, for saving our family!