this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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What is this thing?

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Egg dispenser

They're upside down in your pic

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Check out this guy with so many eggs he has a dispenser!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I brought a dozen camping with me the other day. Imagine my disappointment finding 3 cracked open when I arrived. I'll never financially recover from this.

Lucy Bluth: what could an egg cost? 10 dollars?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

"In my day eggs were so cheep we needed a rapid dispenser for them."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seems much easier to leave them in the carton.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I was enthralled by the idea of something like this, we have a lot more available vertical space in our fridge than surface space. Felt like it never worked that well though, so wegota hard container we can fearlessly stack things on instead

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

LPT: don't get ones that go that high. The eggs really don't dispense smoothly, and at some point they'll be stuck at one of the drops, and when they move again they'll fall fast enough that one will break.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Apytele 10 points 5 days ago

it usually is LOL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Ha, because of the edit, the post is 14min old and this comment is 20 min old.

[–] neidu3 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

An egg rack... an egg rack. I don't even own an egg, let alone many eggs that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do with an egg rack, Stacy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

If you aren't careful, you are going to lose me Wayne!

[–] AlecSadler 4 points 5 days ago

I love you for posting this.

I also feel old.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Looks like an upside down dispenser for something.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd venture a guess that it's for eggs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You're correct

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

this is cool! not seen something like this before! (in europe so egg supply is fine)

[–] Apytele 4 points 5 days ago

I actually took this ages ago and just ran across it while retrieving data from a dying phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Egg rack? That seems to be a device not even billionaires could find use for, so useless

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Looks like a