Most traditional egg timers have a set time of about three minutes, that being the approximate time it takes to cook an average-sized hen's egg in water.
The egg timer was so-named due to its common usage in timing the boiling of eggs.
Falafel has set up a stand in the market, and is attempting to sell an hourglass egg timer called the falafelometer.
The three-minute egg timer is for soft-boiled eggs.
Like blown glass in an egg timer, the two sides of the town have expanded, but the constriction in the middle remains, becoming relatively worse.
