("Henry the Fiddler" used to do a routine (perhaps you saw it at Winfield when I did, John) where he'd play "Listen to the Mockingbird", and end up by imitating various birds on the fiddle...the last two were 'hen laying an egg'...and, with raucous scraping of the bow, 'hen laying a square egg'.)

...well, obviously I know very little about gathering, preserving, washing..or not.., and cooking of eggs. I didn't even mean to suggest that my 'basket' could be used to cook eggs in...but only to store and contain eggs for easy access during OTHER cooking procedures.

(gee, that was hard to explain properly...I had visions of this basket, folded to be a container, sitting on the counter partially filled with eggs as someone occasionally retrieved an egg or two for some recipe.)

I now know more than I ever imagined about possible uses & names for my gadget. The Mudcat Encyclopedia grows ever larger.