Egg timer

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An egg timer or cooking timer is a device whose primary purpose is to measure a set amount of time. Typically these are used for cooking and are useful and essential means to count down time. Egg timers first got their names from egg shaped turn timers. These mechanical timers had a 60 minute dial which would count down after being set, the egg shape due to the round bell which rings time counted down.

Other versions of cooking timers include the hourglass or sand glass timer and digital timers. Digital timers have also been sold using the distinctive egg shape.

[edit] Web-based Egg Timers

In Firefox, you can use the eggon extension as an egg timer which measures Soft, Medium, and Hard eggs.