I'm making more egg salad these days. I don't seem to have a good gadget for chopping hard boiled eggs.

The slicer (eggs put through horizontally and vertically)

makes little squares and is messy.

The spring loaded chopper thing has too many parts to wash.

My mother used to have a beautifully simple tool that was like a biscuit cutter with a handle. Voila - one simple gadget to wash and even better!
...it chopped eggs in seconds - cheap and easy.

I can't find one in any store.

What do you use to chop your hard boiled eggs?


THANKS Barefoot

What do you use to chop your hard boiled eggs?

A knife.

I use a pastry cutter (the tool used to 'cut' the butter into the flour). It's curved, works wonderfully and fast and is dishwasher safe.
If you don't have a dishwasher, just make sure to rinse it off right after using it so the egg doesn't get crusted between the blades...not fun trying to clean when that happens.

I tend to only chop one at a time, so this may not help...
I just stick Mr Egg into an ordinary breakfast cup and chop away. It seems to be easier with "walls" to keep the egg from flying away.
Besides, that's what my mother always did.

Cheers,

Rosebud

Maybe I'm strange, but I enjoy slicing hard boiled eggs the old fashioned way. Takes a bit of time but there's something kinda nice about it. Maybe it's the smooth texture.

You can grate eggs, using the large holes on the grater.

Karen

I toss the eggs in a flat saucepan and mash them with a potato masher (not the wire kind, but the square-holed kind). I like completely pulverized egg salad, though.

Thanks for all these ideas

I use a large coffee mug, which will hold up to three hard boiled eggs, and either a serrated steak knife or a place knife, and whack away at it. Easy to clean a mug and a knife. Works for for me. Graters are harder to clean and rust if I leave them in the dishwasher.

Kay

I have a small manual food processor by Starfrit which you wind a blade by hand and i first chop my vegetables for my egg salad and then just toss in my eggs and chop away. Everything is then blended nicely.

If I'm doing a lot of eggs, I use my spring loaded chopper or mini electric chopper. But, if I only have a couple to chop, I do what I've done since childhood... I chop (or really mash) them with a fork in a bowl.



Phyllis