I was making breakfast for my son and he wanted to be held while I did it, and I realized that if the egg were scrambled before it came out of the shell, I'd be able to make scrambled eggs with one hand. I propose a machine shaped like a pair of salad tongs, with rubberized cups at the end that could hold an egg securely. The tongs would be held at the pivot point by a machine that would then violently agitate the egg (maintaining even pressure via the rubberized cups to avoid breakage) thus causing the yolk and egg white to mix and scrambling the egg. Simply crack into a buttered pan and prepare just like you would eggs beaten in a bowl.
-- GhettoBodhi, Mar 10 2003

(?) RONCO's solution http://shop.ronco.com/shop/scrambler/
It sticks a pin up into the egg at an angle, and spins it on a motor. According to the once ubiquitous US late-night TV commercials for this gadget, it does work. [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]

The story of RONCO http://shop.ronco.com/about/
For those of you outside the US who weren't bombarded with these ads as children. [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]

Pretty closed to baked. Scrambled, actually. http://www.youtube....watch?v=aazP6zvJmiQ
[swimswim, Apr 07 2013]

Surely there are lots of ways you could scramble them post-cracking. How about putting them in one of those batter maker shaker thingies? Or even just using a fork?
-- sild, Mar 10 2003


// just using a fork //

That's a bit boring and low-tech, isn't it ?

How about using ultrasound or infrasound ?
-- 8th of 7, Mar 10 2003


RONCO has an alternative solution, see link. Now how much would you pay? Operators are standing by! This is a free call.
-- krelnik, Mar 10 2003


Well part of the point for me is that there's no cleanup here.. as long as the egg doesn't explode (hee hee) then there is NOTHING to clean except the pan and whatever eating utensils you use! Would sound work through the eggshell? That's an interesting idea. Thanks for the ronco link that thing is neat!
-- GhettoBodhi, Mar 10 2003


glue fur and a tail onto it and let the cat play with it for half an hour. you and the kid are entertained as well.
-- po, Mar 10 2003


Perhaps the shell can be punctured by a thin shaft which opens up, umbrella-style, and rotates at high speed inside the egg. The ribs (or watever they're called) are then returned to the shaft, the shaft is withdrawn and the egg is ready to be cracked and cooked, pre-scrambled.
-- snarfyguy, Mar 10 2003


The RONCO gadget works much like that, snarfy, but simpler. The shaft doesn't open up, its just bent so that when it rotates it traces a conical path through the egg.
-- krelnik, Mar 10 2003


Make a hole in each end and blow the contents into the frying pan.
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 10 2003


While making breakfast for one of my kids, I thought a mini paint-shaker for eggs would be a great idea. "The Eggitator!", of course -- and naturally it appeared on HB nearly a decade ago.
-- swimswim, Feb 25 2013


The problem with the fork is that it scratches the pan and removes the Teflon.
-- pashute, Feb 26 2013



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