When TV personality Chrissie Swan shared an Instagram video of her morning routine, she probably wasn’t expecting a bizarre kitchen accessory to steal the show.
The radio star, 49, documented an average morning for her 278,000 Instagram followers in footage that covered everything from her bleary-eyed wake-up to her breakfast menu.
But it was an unexpected detail that had everyone talking – a “mind-blowing” kitchen implement that makes eating a boiled egg a breeze.
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At one point in the video, Swan could be seen cutting the tops off her eggs with a handy “egg cutter”.
“This thing is amazing,” she said in the video.
“Cost me a dollar and it cuts the tops of the eggs off.
“It’s genius, absolute genius.”
Swan’s fans really couldn’t get enough either.
“We all need the egg cutter in our lives. Where is it from?” one viewer asked.
“I’m just here with everyone else being mind blown by that egg topper!” another added.
“Oh the egg topper!” said a third.
While Swan didn’t specify the brand of her particular egg cutter, the good news is that you need look no further for the said implement.
You can buy a stainless steel boiled egg cutter from Amazon right here.
You simply place the egg cutter on the egg, press to secure it and pull the handles together like scissors and it will apparently pierce the shell.
The dishwasher-safe utensil retails for $27.16 for a pack of two and it is described as “durable”, with shoppers giving it an average rating of three stars.
If you are after a slightly fancier cutter, with even better reviews, then the NobleEgg cracker tool might be worth looking at.
This has an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 1165 reviews and is priced at $22.38.
The cutter operates slightly differently to the model demonstrated by Swan.
You hold it over the egg and pull up the round ball before releasing.
The vibration-activated mechanism will make a round cut around the eggshell.
The good thing about this brand is that you can adjust the force of the mechanism to suit different sized eggs by pulling the ball higher or lower.