Microwave Egg Cooker
date: label: date made
content: ca 1990
name: label: maker
content: Precis Plastic
notes: label: Description
content: This red, egg-shaped cooker is made of microwave-safe plastic for use in microwave ovens. It takes no time at all to cook an egg in this device: a mere 30 seconds will cook a soft-boiled egg and 50 seconds will deliver the egg in hard-boiled form. This egg cooker was among the gadgets in Julia Child’s home kitchen, collected by the National Museum of American History in 2001.
label: Description
content: Julia Child, the beloved American cooking teacher, cookbook author, and television personality, was a self-described “gadget freak.” She collected kitchen tools throughout her long career and received many gadgets as gifts from friends and colleagues. The origin and actual use of this egg cooker is unknown, but, since Julia’s kitchen did not include a microwave oven in 2001, it is safe to assume she kept the microwave egg cooker for some reason other than to use it for cooking one egg at a time.
place: label: used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: kitchen
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content: Home and Community Life: Occupations
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content: Food
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
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content: Julia Child's Kitchen
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Julia Child
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0253.0364
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0253.0364
label: accession number
content: 2001.0253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cookware, microwave
label: Object Name
content: cooker, egg, microwave
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 7 cm; 3 15/16 in x 2 3/4 in