As you see in the little animation below, I bough an egg slicer the other day. To me they are the epitome of this kind of item.
But let us not forget the noble toothpick, or olive fork, or even better the pickle fork with spring action. My grandmother had one of these and I've wanted one ever since. I can't explain how they work but they are a marvel of victorian engineering akin to the canal system in my warped mind.
What other items bring joy to my heart when rummaging in the drawer for some tool or other?
Pizza cutters, mandolins, pestle and mortar, scone cutters, coffee makers, cheese slicers, flour dusters; God they're lovely.
The only problem is I have a perfectly good knife and my brand new egg slicer from Aldi makes the egg look like this:
