Gadgetory

hi Katy Pilkington for CNET and today we're going to be looking at the quirky egg minder I come from a long line of grocery store owners for whom expiration dates tend to be more of a suggestion rather than a hard and fast rule as such I know that growing up I ate eggs that were far past the recommended expiration date so when we first got the quirky egg minder and I was really excited because it seems like a very elegant solution to a common food waste problem I know that if you're anything like me and my family you forget that you have eggs in your refrigerator and will run out and buy more when you're at the store and then you end up before you know it with three cartons of eggs in your fridge they're all about to expire and while it may seem like an elegant solution to this food waste problem it is also an expensive one the egg minder retails for 69 dollars making it an expensive kitchen gadget that you really don't need I say it's not really worth it because while I do think it's a really great concept and I like the idea of a kitchen gadget that does this function for you it's not as smart as I would like it to be it places a time stamp on eggs that you put inside of it and marks the day that it arrives which is information that communicates back to the cell phone app and this app is available on tablets and smartphones but even with that connectivity it doesn't really give you enough information to go off of granted you can customize how long you trust your eggs to be good but I don't really want that I want the egg minder to tell me how long my eggs will be good without me programming it to believe that it's four or five weeks in addition if you get out four eggs because you think you need them but the recipe only calls for three if you put the egg back in the egg minder in my test anyways it will recognize it as being a new egg meaning that even if it's a two week old egg the egg minder won't recognize that and will perceive it as a fresh new latest addition to the egg collection this is kind of my opinion of all of the quirky products that we've seen so far and that they all have these great concepts for things that would really make your life a lot easier if they were more fully realized if however price points don't concern you and you are really in the market for a kitchen gadget that looks cool and might make your life somewhat easier the a grinder does work on a basic level as it promises speaking for myself in terms of kitchen gadgets if I were going to spend that kind of money I'd probably take that $69 and spend it elsewhere for CNET I'm Katie Pilkington