Gauze Shaker Egg Beater: Shake the Eggs Through a Wire Gauze

"In using this cup for beating eggs, the eggs are first broken and poured in to the cup A, the top C, is then pressed on tightly as seen in Fig. 1, and a backward and forward endwise motion is given to the cup, the motion being sufficiently violent to force the eggs through the gauze wire which cuts them up at every passage through, until they become exceedingly light. Thirty seconds of violent agitation in this way is amply sufficient in many cases—and in one minute eggs may be made as light by this process as by any other now known."

Print the insert (/uploads/blueprints/gauze-shaker-egg-beater-insert.stl): a ring that sits in a regular-mouth jar under its lid, three legs and a grid of 3.2 mm openings at mid-height. Print in PETG at 0.2 mm layers, 30 % infill, 4 walls.

Drop the insert into a Mason jar so its ring rests on the jar's rim, the grid hanging to about the middle. Screw the lid down over the ring.

US 30,053 drawing sheet, public domain (expired patent).

Pour two eggs into the jar, close it, and shake end to end hard. Check at 30 s and at one minute; compare with whisking two eggs by hand.

**H. F. Drott** of Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, received US 30,053, dated 18 September 1860. The cup is an ordinary tin cup with a handle, a quart being large enough for family use; the gauze is fixed to the top by thin strips of metal, three inches from the top in a cup of that size, reaching about midway. He claimed the gauze partition with the cup and close-fitting cover, the eggs being forced through it. **Honest limits.** FDM prints hold food in their layer lines, so wash well and replace when worn. A printed grid and a jar stand in for wire gauze and a tin cup. Your times are the result.