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What (who) is egg timer - definition

USED AS AN AID IN CUISINE TO DETERMINE READINESS OF COOKED EGGS
Eggtimer; Memopark timer; Memo Park Timer; Cooking timer; Draft:Redirect to "egg timer" because that page exists; Kitchen timer
  • Mechanical clockwork egg/kitchen timer
  • Clockwork mechanism of a mechanical egg timer

egg timer         
also egg-timer (egg timers)
An egg timer is a device that measures the time needed to boil an egg.
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Egg timer         
An egg timer or kitchen timer is a device whose primary function is to assist in timing during cooking; the name comes from the first timers initially being used for the timing of cooking eggs. Early designs simply counted down for a specific period of time.
egg timer         
¦ noun a device, traditionally a small hourglass, for timing the cooking of a boiled egg.

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Egg timer

An egg timer or kitchen timer is a device whose primary function is to assist in timing during cooking; the name comes from the first timers initially being used for the timing of cooking eggs. Early designs simply counted down for a specific period of time. Some modern designs can time more accurately by depending on water temperature rather than an absolute time.

Examples of use of egg timer
1. They range from electronic devices built into the brush, to egg timer–type gadgets which children can use.
2. But White House spokesman Tony Snow on Thursday criticized what he called a push for egg–timer diplomacy.
3. "Everybody who wants this kind of egg–timer diplomacy, who thinks, OK these things ought to happen quickly, you don‘t understand human nature," Snow said.
4. Whatever the total, it is now a defined number, so while that egg–timer in the sky is running, I‘ll go out and live every moment to the full.
5. One inventor, Georgii Krutikov, put out an idea for a "flying city", kept in the air by electrical currents – this at a time when there was hardly enough surplus wattage in all of Moscow to run an egg timer.