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Thanks so much everyone! You all have given me so many considerations to think about, I really appreciate it! Will continue to investigate and see where it ends up!

Haha thanks so much for your reply! I also appreciate that you are giving me some additional avenues to look into before 86ing the idea completely. For example, I am totally onboard with your idea that it may not need to have a mega large sales volume, but maybe just enough to at least start somewhere and then expand later. The vision was actually to wake up to a complete breakfast and then additional meals and automating the kitchen, not just a fried egg. It just sort of started here. So, maybe I need to figure out how to talk to more folks who live with a chronic illness or other disability, like you said, as well as perhaps some hoteliers who have self-service waffle makers, etc. There are definitely new challenges to doing hardware right now...so let's see how that goes! Thank you again!

Thank you for sharing! Would he be willing to take an egg out of the fridge and drop it into the machine, or would it need to have a hopper/magazine sort of thing that holds and refrigerates all the eggs? Ah, I hadn't thought of it in that context, and that makes sense... My uncle had a procedure done and needed several different items but only for a few months. Where did you go to buy your clothing? For example, we have a medical supplies store, I wonder if it would be worth talking to them. Very helpful to know, thank you! All super valid points... an egg isn't really that hard to cook to begin with, so I guess my thoughts are... (1) maybe it just doesn't make sense (2) maybe it makes sense for someone who struggles with it for some reason (3) maybe it's not about doing something faster, but rather having something be babysat for you while you can do other things (4) or maybe, with automated egg loading and egg shell disposal, it may actually solve those problems you mentioned... Thank you! The last thing I want to do is try to have an answer looking for a problem, lol...so if there's not an obvious need, I don't want to try to bulldoze it through. But if there's something here, even if just a seed, that could leave to something useful, I'm all for it...but you're right it seems it may need more thought.

That's a good point, thank you. I did find it interesting that it had over 120k reviews and most were positive...must mean people are interested. But true, we don't know how frequently they use it. So glad you brought this up...living in the USA, I'm so used to refrigerated egg cook timings, but is sunny side up that different for a non refrigerated egg? I'll have to test it. I figured it'd just be a change in timing, but maybe temperature level as well. I'm pretty jealous that eggs don't have to be refrigerated elsewhere...for one, it would make it easy to leave an egg in the machine and wake up to a fried egg in the morning without refrigeration. ohh good to know! What style egg was most popular? And what kind of restaurant was it?

Wow, thank you so much everyone for your candid feedback and thoughts! It's really helpful, and I'm very grateful! Being a one trick pony is definitely a huge concern of mine. The main reason I got curious if something like this could be useful to others is because there are some one trick pony products out there that people seem to have gone bananas over. Just this one egg boiler, for example, has over 127,000 reviews on Amazon! And all it does is boil eggs! Granted, it's super inexpensive... Thanks for the idea! Limited mobility was vaguely in the back of my mind but you pinpointed much clearer scenarios. Any thoughts on where I might go to ask if this would be useful to folks in those situations? For example, I can look up home care facilities, not sure if there's a better way. Yup, it alerts you when it's done. And it can leave it on "warm" so that it stays warm even if you can't get to it immediately. Thank you for the idea about hotel breakfast...I was having a bit of a hard time visualizing someone using this in a hotel because I wasn't sure if they'd be willing to pick up a raw egg (even with tongs) and drop it into the machine...but having egg storage and dispensing so that they just walk up to the machine and ask for a fried egg...that seems pretty in-line with the pancake tunnel you're mentioning (which I assume is something like this video below) Good question, and thanks for highlighting that it was confusing terminology! (haha another reminder that sometimes one can get so absorbed in what you're working on that you assume it makes sense to others!)... I meant that it pre-heats the pan to the right temperature before cracking the egg into the pan. With that shape pan, it can only do a sunny side up fried egg (and if you wanted it over easy/over medium, etc., you would have to manually flip it). Technically, it's not difficult to add a little holder and lid like the egg boilers do so that it can boil eggs....or a cradle for poached eggs... more "attachments" is a concern of mine, personally, though going back to the egg boiler example...people seem to use those for boiled eggs, poached eggs, even steamed "omelettes" (if you can call it that).

Hi everyone! Would love your honest feedback. I built a little egg-cooking robot for my family, and now I’m wondering if this is something worth pursuing more seriously. Here’s what it does: 🥚 You drop in 1–2 eggs 🔥 It preheats, cracks, and fries them sunny-side-up 🕒 You can press start or set a timer so it’s ready when you are 🧼 The arms and pan are removable and dishwasher safe Some background on why I made it: My dad eats a fried egg every morning My wife is usually rushing out the door and skips breakfast I want a big breakfast, but when I’m in the zone with work, cooking feels like a disruption. Here's a short demo video (link) I’m trying to figure out if this is something worth taking to mass manufacturing or if it's too niche. So I’d love your thoughts: Would you use something like this? If not, what would it need to do differently for you to consider it? Any and all feedback is welcome! 🙏 (Also happy to send a test unit your way if you’re interested—DM me!)