Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Single-use eggtimer

It won't reset at all. Prevents cheating.
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Looks a lot like a conventional "hourglass" egg timer except the bottom bulb is much bigger than the top, and has a tube running down from the "pinch".

Thus the sand can run through, but when the unit is inverted, it pools around the tube and cannot flow back into the other bulb.

8th of 7, Feb 14 2011

Reinventing the egg timer Reinventing_20the_20egg_20timer
[Ling]'s oiriginal idea [8th of 7, Feb 14 2011]

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       Pretty sure that is [Ling]'s idea?
daseva, Feb 14 2011
  

       Fixed.
8th of 7, Feb 14 2011
  

       This would be pretty useful for checking if a package was, in fact, stored upside down.
Ling, Feb 14 2011
  

       And when the egg is done, you break the timer and use the salt that you thought was sand.
normzone, Feb 15 2011
  
      
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