Keep boiling eggs from cracking

March 24, 2010 8:04 AM PT

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With Easter coming up, this little space-alien-looking gadget, called a foodpod, could come in handy for boiling eggs. But it’s also meant for vegetables or anything else you’d like to nestle inside to blanch, boil or steam.

The foodpod, made by fusionbrands, keeps the food from rattling around in a pot while cooking. A hook on the end of the tentacle also makes it easy to pull the cooked food out of the boiling water. Plus, it’s cute.

The foodpod costs $15 and can be ordered online, or find retailers at the website.

-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.