Be careful, a mere nip, cut, or scratch can break the membrane and leave you not with egg on your face, but yolk all over your hands. When all the shell is rubbed away, gently hold the egg under a ...

There are novelty egg cookers shaped like six penguins holding hands (flippers?), where each egg slots into a cartoonish belly before being lowered into boiling water like a precious cargo.

Between them, wedge a coin so that the two balls are now holding the coin in place. From there, begin to practice the motion of cracking open an egg with one hand using the props (in this scenario ...