I love soft boiled eggs, but slicing with a knife over the years has gotten tedious, these remove that stigma, however the learning curve is that if you don't hold the egg and egg cracker together, the bottom of your egg will get crushed as the force telegraphs down more than into the cutting ridge, you will burn your fingers a bit until you get good at it, then your a veteran egg cracker and these are very good!! I would suggest to the manufacturer that they make the cutting ridge inside the cutter a little more pronounced, and angled up juuusst a hair. over all?? a very good product, minus the learning curve.

overall good. cut the egg top nicely with two pulls. the bottom edge of the egg holders are a bit sharp.

Thank you. Has already found this product delivered! Great!

The spring loaded egg topper! Growing up I had used one of the clamp type openers with the little jagged teeth that clenched the egg top and cracked it open and fast forward, we now have this Espare unit. I didn't really need the spoons or the holders, but they are there, and okay in quality. The holders are fair, thin steel, spot welded affairs.

The main item is the spring loaded egg cracker topper. And so, after 'topping' several dozen eggs over the last few weeks. The short conclusion: It's more hit and miss.

I found it best to hold the egg in a paper towel or napkin (assuming it's hot from the steamer) and with one hand gripping egg and the bell of the topper, let fly the spring mechanism and more often than not you'll end up with a decent seam.

Sometimes, at this point, you can actually lift off the top of the egg entirely. More often, you're left with a crack seam and some radiating cracks, from which you can pick the top and other bits of shell off manually, leaving you with a undisturbed bottom 3/4 of the egg/shell. Either outcome is workable. You can't reliable top every egg, and don't expect to drop the egg in the egg cup and pop it open with perfect edges. Depending on several factors (egg shell strength, size, etc.) the topper sometimes just crushes the egg into the egg cup. So that's usually best avoided by using the handheld method.

I'm going to buy one of the clampers with teeth as well, to see which is more reliable.

I bought this to replace my old egg cutting device that had a bunch of points that cut a circular pattern around the egg but frequently broke more of the shell than I wanted.

The cutting device works fine. It needs to be pulled back the full way before releasing and I find that stabilizing the egg with my had helps.

The top of the egg rarely comes off spontaneously. I almost always have to use the tip of a knife to complete the job but the end result is clean.

the spoons that come with it are a nice size and the finish makes them easy to clean.

The egg cups are flimsy and hard to clean. Ill probably invest in some ceramic egg cups if I come across some I like.

HInt: I started buying brown eggs because it is much easier to spot the occasional tiny big of shell that is close to the edge of the cut and might end up being scouped up when starting to eat the egg.