Never mind - found it!!!!! It's a Tupperware! Funny that the Tupperware name wasn't on it anywhere, but I found one on eBay.

DonnaR/CA

It's not plastic but isn't it CUTE!

Here is a link that might be useful: Eggy thingy.

I knew someone who had one that was made out of pottery....and shaped like a head....and you broke the egg into it and tipped and it vomited the white and left behind the yolk.
I just use the 2 shells method...I can separate eggs faster than any of those gadgets.
Linda C

At Bed Bath & Beyond, on the gadget wall; the egg separator can be found.

Yeah, I usually use the eggshells. Fingers work too...just crack the egg into your hand and let the white slip through your fingers. Heaven knows I don't need another gadget to search for!

But heck, we all have our fav gadgets. I just got a new fine grater for ginger, garlic...anything you want grated really fine. It's one of those that looks like a wood-rasp, with a handle. I'm in heaven because it grates ginger without getting clogged up with ginger fibers. $12.99, and worth every penny.

So who am I to scoff at an egg-separator? :D

I haven't posted pictures in so long that I can't remember how to do them full size. They lose a little something shrunk down. I'll probably even screw this up. But anyway . . .

Here's the egg separator my husband gave me for Christmas a few years ago. (And that's his hand helpfully tilting out the goo.) I only use it to gross out little children--much faster and neater to do it the old one-shell-to-the-other way. But it is fun to watch stuff ooze out his nose.

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ROFL!!! :D

I have two egg separators, one on the end of each arm :-)
I find it fastest to crack an egg into a clean hand (usually my left) and let the white seep out through my slightly spread fingers. Remaining white can be gently brushed off the yolk with a clean finger. Very quick amd no risk of breaking the yolk over the edge of the shell if you have a pointy bit sticking up.

maureen you just made my day

the 'one item swap' is coming up

y'all should be very, very afraid and sucking up to AnnT to NOT get my name

That's awfully cute, Maureen!

I use my fingers. I think I enjoy it, and I don't do much of it anyway. But after watching the spouse try to make an angelfood cake, I think a separator gadget has a place in the world.

I use the egg shells, but I used to have one of those tupperware ones you describe. Got it as a party favor at a tupperware party a million years ago so if you hadn't discovered its source I coulda helped.

We actually own multiple egg separators. (1) DH keeps looking for the perfect one and doesn't toss the ones he doesn't like (2) having a second (or third of fourth) one available comes in handy when you get yolk all over your first one. Don't ask me how I know...

I separate my eggs with my fingers.

kframe, I bet with fingers, one can better catch the chalaza too (gross stringly thing attached to the yolk). If one is so inclined.

I'm a potter and ten or fifteen years ago someone ordered six or eight egg seperators. I just made custard cup shapes with happy face mouth slit toward the top. I tested them all and they worked. It only took a little longer than using the shells. Don't know why she wanted so many. Mabe she was Jessy's husband's sister.,,,Tache

Maureen that is incredible, I love it. What mind thought of that? The grandkids would go wild to see that.

Maureen, I imagine kids must be equally grossed out and fascinated with your egg booger guy. Do you know where your husband got it from? I think one of those would make a great gag gift for one of my friends.

Glad you guys got a laugh out of our little gizmo. I'd never trust a group of people who didn't enjoy seeing egg mucus come out of someone's nose.

I asked my husband, and he said he bought it at a local gift shop that no longer exists, but I just Googled it and found them for sale at lots of places. The one that looks like mine is tastefully named Boris Booger Boy. There's a link to an eBay seller below, but if you don't do eBay, there are plenty of other places to buy these. I also found another one called Peter Petrie, but he's not picking his nose, and there's no shiny glaze, so I think that mine is the superior model. Standards must be upheld, after all. ;o)

Here is a link that might be useful: Buy your own Booger Boy!

That should be a gift for every young person learning to cook. Then after they get 'over it' the thought of using their own clean hands won't seem so weird. I used to use the shell but in that last baking class I did a dozen ...with hands only. I'm a convert now.

I never got the hang of doing it by hand, but my oldest is a wiz at it. (I think she learned it from her grandmother the cook.) So a long time ago, I gave up on the hand separating and went for the separator gadget.

I won one from a Tupperware dealer on eBay, and also got one of the spatula things from the same gal. So my postage costs won't be too bad. It will be nice to have 2.

DonnaR/CA

I never got the hang of doing it by hand

You get a pass this time Donna. Next time...no telling what we'll do with you.

DonnaR, last night I dreamt that I got an All-Clad egg separator as a free gift with some utensils I ordered online. In my dream, I was so excited about it and couldn't wait to log onto the Cooking forum to reply to your post about it!

Then I woke up. Of course all-clad doesn't make egg separators, and no company I know of tosses in free all-clad items with your spatula order. But I still got to post and tell you about it.

I have the Pampered Chef eggy thingy barnmom pictures above. The few times I've used it it's worked nicely. But I like Maureen's so much better! Pity I have nowhere to store Boris Booger Boy. ;-0

I knew I shouldn't have looked...I just knew it.