AN INGENIOUS CONTRIVANCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1364, 15 February 1912, Page 5

AN INGENIOUS CONTRIVANCE.

TO HELP TUB COOK,

"The old order changeth." Hou.%wives will have no mure worrying times watching eggs UriliiiK ami wondering if they me done lo people's liking, for there has come into our midst a most ingenious arrangement by which these self-same, eggs can be placed in the wnter, and at « required time, ejected by n mechanical conlriviince, boiled to a person's likins. This now idea and many other patent* of its kind can be seen in the panlrv on board (lie Vnion Company's new liner Mnmigunui, now at Wellington.

11: is a .simple affair, attached lo the wall, consisting of a tin trough about 18. or 2(1 inches long and about eight inches wide. This contains the water which- is healed by electricity. On the side of the trough nearest the wall are four nielnl uprights, some inches apart, and at the top of each of these is a wheel. Over tin's wheel runs a chap- *x> which is attached a kind of bucket or receptacle. Into this receptacle as many as six eggs can lie placed at a time. At the top of the uprights, and placed on one fide of them, is a clock-like arrangement, which, when the receptacle is pushed down into the water, commences ticking like a clock. At each movement of the "ticker" the eggholder is hauled up a little until it is quite clear of the water. At the yerj top of each upright there is a register which can be set so as to allow the eggs to remain in the water any time from one' up to six minutes. With this arrangement two dozen eggs can be cooked at once, and when a person has filled up the receptacles and set Hie machine going they can leave the "cooker" and attend to other 'work, perfectly sure that the eggs will not be cither under or over done.