http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5226338.stm

Eggs that tell you when they're done, Delia Smith is probably quite worried that she wont be able to make another program about this cooking basic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5226338.stm

Eggs that tell you when they're done, Delia Smith is probably quite worried that she wont be able to make another program about this cooking basic.

It's a start I suppose. Unfortunately, they still don't shout "Oi! we're done!" so I will have still wandered off for a fag or a wee and forgotten them. :ninja:

I do mine in my steamer now - it's got a timer and switches itself off. :good:

I do mine in my steamer now - it's got a timer and switches itself off. :good:

see these folk with their fancy la-la das, they get right my ar$e they do! :sly:

If you ever start a range of burnt-out pan jewellery, I'm yer girl for the raw materials :w00t:

I put my eggs in the pan, boil the water in the kettle, turn the heat on beneath the pan, pour the boiling water over the eggs the pop the toast down in the toaster just below number 4 on the timer and I get perfect soft centred eggs every time as when the toast pops up my eggs are done! :blink:

Delia can go take a run and jump i know hoe to boil an egg...........go suck eggs....................ok i need more beer, i is lovely and drunk

There was a bloke on Dragon's Lair (or summat like that) who'd invented an egg cooker that made boiled stylee eggs in a dinky little container without water or pans. His demonstration was crap, but I'd certainly buy one if and when they hit the market. I so cannot be arsed to boil an egg, but if there was a gadget to do it for me I'd have my soldiers lined up every morning. :sun:

Dragon's Den. It's the Dragons Den!


I liked the egg thing as well and would definitely buy one if they hit the shops at a sensible price.


On the other hand, the bird with the fleece toilet seat covers was clearly a fruit cake!

Dragon's Den. It's the Dragons Den!

On the other hand, the bird with the fleece toilet seat covers was clearly a fruit cake!
Not nearly as loopy as the one with the dog coats, or the geezer with the coffee table thing that was going to sell his house...piece of ****** that was...

I quite liked the thingummy that stopped the bath overflowing, but I don't think I'd ever be arsed enough to buy one. Good idea though.

I think he said the egg thing would be retailing under 20 quid for the single unit, so I'm in.

I quite liked the thingummy that stopped the bath overflowing, but I don't think I'd ever be arsed enough to buy one. Good idea though.

I think he said the egg thing would be retailing under 20 quid for the single unit, so I'm in.

Would the bath thing be any good for sinks? Ever since I put the plug in the sink and ran the hot water to wash up, then popped into the living room for something, got side-tracked and flooded my sons flat downstairs :bag: I've had OCD about checking that the plug is out and the taps are well and truly off.

I need some sort of detector that sticks on the sink and sets off a loud siren when the water reaches it :)

Bath's not a problem, we don't have one.

The bath thing is triggered when the water hits the overflow thingy and shuts off the supply to the taps, so I guess it could also be customised for sinks. Depends on the space behind the tap unit and I'm guessing there wouldn't be much space behind a sink unit. The device was about 10" x 8" from recollection.

Also I think he said it didn't work on mixer taps, but I might be wrong.

It has been known....:bag:

Sounds a bit complicated Floopy. Must have been designed by a man. Mine sounds much easier :D. Not much good if you've gone out though :(

2 other options for you Crit.

1. Make husband wash dishes on pain of starvation.
2. Buy dishwasher :w00t:

2 other options for you Crit.

1. Make husband wash dishes on pain of starvation.
2. Buy dishwasher :w00t:

:D
1. is not an option - he works and I don't and he'd never starve cos he doesn't mind cooking so he'd use everything until there was nothing left and then just wipe what he wanted with a bit of kitchen paper :w00t:

2. Yeah, got one but still have to do big things in the sink.

What I actually did with my old sink was to buy a washing up bowl and not put the plug in but with my new sink it's got one of those "pull up-push down" strainer type thingys and once the bowl gets to a certain level of water the weight pushes down on the plunger :( Now I have to remember to remove the plunger thing altogether :)

It shouldn't happen again really because now I've got one of those half sinks as well which is designed to act as an overflow. I should just remove the plunger thing from that one I suppose but it would probably get blocked up with large bits of stuff going down it.

Oh well, never mind, I'll just have to keep checking over and over again.