Last Updated on May 12, 2025 by nice2buy
Let’s start with the name: “CrazyDeal Hot Magic Colour Changing Egg Timer”. That’s not a product title — that’s what happens when you drop a Scrabble board and try to read it mid-fall.
Now, I love a soft-boiled egg. But I also love basic common sense, and this thing is the culinary equivalent of bringing a Tesla to toast bread. It’s a lump of resin you throw into your pot alongside your eggs, and as the water heats up, it allegedly changes color to tell you whether your egg is soft, medium, or hard. Which sounds great… until you actually try it.
Problem one: It’s made of resin.
You know what else is made of resin? Cheap souvenirs, fake jewelry, and things that should not live inside boiling water for 10 minutes next to your breakfast.
Problem two: It “senses heat, not time.”
Which is a clever way of saying “completely inconsistent.” Eggs vary in size, freshness, and temperament. You could toss this thing in with a quail egg and a dinosaur egg and it would probably tell you they’re both medium. It doesn’t care. It’s a blob. A vaguely red, semi-melted blob.
Problem three: “Do not immerse in cold water.”
Well that’s useful, considering it just spent 10 minutes in boiling water. And I suppose you also can’t dry it with a towel, breathe too heavily on it, or look at it directly in sunlight?
They claim:
“Perfect eggs regardless of egg quality or altitude.”
Altitude?! Are we boiling eggs on Everest now? What next — a humidity-sensitive cheese slicer?
Let’s be honest: if you need a color-changing resin puck to boil an egg, maybe you’re not ready for eggs. Use a stopwatch. Use your brain. Or just accept the fact that sometimes, your yolk will be slightly more cooked than your Instagram aesthetic requires. You’ll live.
Final verdict:
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Gadget or gimmick? Gimmick.
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Useful? Only if you’ve been personally defeated by eggs.
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Fun? For about 30 seconds.
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Should you buy it? Only if you’re trying to boil eggs on a moving train at high altitude while blindfolded.
The CrazyDeal Magic Egg Timer is like giving your kitchen anxiety a plastic mascot. It doesn’t solve anything. It just sits there, pretending to help, while your eggs quietly mock you from the pot.
