Egg slicer

An egg slicer ( berlinerisch: Eggs harp) is a kitchen appliance that will cut the hard boiled eggs into equal slices. These are used as a sandwich filling or garnish for salads and cold plates.

Egg slicer consists of two parts, a lower part made ​​of plastic, aluminum or stainless steel with a trough for receiving the hard-boiled and then peeled ice and a swiveling top with parallel strained, serving as cutting, thin wires. By a single depression of the egg is sliced. It will then once or twice is rotated by 90 ° and cut again, result in strips or cubes.

Similar, correspondingly larger devices are also offered to cut mozzarella.

The egg slicer was invented in 1900 by Willy Abel, who in 1911 received a patent on it. In 1907 he had founded the Harras plants in Lichtenberg in Berlin, in which also the first egg slicer were produced.