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US 12,127,655 B2Granted
Marination container for hard-boiled eggs
OwnerVito Gervasi, Kiyami Masamuneinventors
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Abstract
A flexible egg conforming container receives an egg therein and provides channels around the egg to marinate the egg with reduced marinade. The channels are supported away from the egg by inwardly extending bosses arrayed to impart a decorative pattern to the egg after marination.
Claims16
A marination container for a single hard-boiled egg comprising:
- a container sized and having an open state to receive only the single hard boiled egg therein, the container further having a closed state providing an ovoid cavity into which the single hard-boiled egg is received, the container having walls providing a set of multiple spaced and separated and inwardly extending bosses pressing against an outer surface of the single hard-boiled egg as received and adapted and cooperating with the ovoid cavity to support the single hard-boiled egg in a fixed position with respect to the bosses with a surface of the single hard-boiled egg spaced away from portions of the walls between multiple of the bosses, the portions spaced away from the outer surface of the single hard-boiled egg as received to allow passage of marinade introduced into an opening in first end of the container in the closed state and around the single hard-boiled egg as received to be retained in the container to marinate the single hard-boiled egg as received by flowing around the bosses to all the portions spaced away from the outer surface of the single hard-boiled egg as received while being blocked from flowing between the bosses and portions of the egg supported by the bosses to impart a predetermined pattern on the surface of the single hard-boiled egg.
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