Counterpoint: Excellent kitchen gadgets

[cassiesmom]

My mom bought an expensive slicer for hard-boiled eggs at Bloomingdale's. It works great and even makes thin slices of strawberries.

Edited to add: I have her old egg slicer. It doesn't cut cleanly through the yolk, so I end up more with hunks of egg than thin slices. The one from Bloomie's makes nice even slices that look great in the finished dish. My dad tried it with a small section of mango and it did the job.

[pomtzu]

Edited to add: I have her old egg slicer. It doesn't cut cleanly through the yolk, so I end up more with hunks of egg than thin slices. The one from Bloomie's makes nice even slices that look great in the finished dish. My dad tried it with a small section of mango and it did the job.

Okay Elyse - break down and part with a few bucks and get one at Walmart. Mine works great - nice sharp wires I guess. Maybe the wires on your Mom's old one have gotten dull over time, but I never had that problem. The reason I got a new one is that a couple of wires popped loose on the old one, and the one before that, a section of the plastic broke. But they really are very long lived!