If you’ve scrolled past a video of a robot cracking an egg without touching the shell in the last few weeks, you’ve met EGOR. The countertop device from San Francisco startup Cheffy has become one of those “wait, is this real?” moments on social media — and yes, it’s real. Founder Arjun Mehta had to personally jump into the comments to confirm it wasn’t an AI-generated prank.
EGOR — short for Efficient Gastronomic Operational Robot — loads a whole, uncracked egg, cracks it using what Cheffy only describes as “patent-pending technology,” and cooks it exactly the way you like it. Sunny side up, over easy, over medium, over hard, soft-boiled, medium-boiled, hard-boiled, or just cracked and left plain. Seven ways, zero shell in your hands. It pairs with TOASTR, a smart toaster that times itself so your toast and eggs finish together — because nothing kills a good breakfast moment like cold eggs and a toaster still cranking away.
The specs are modest by design: EGOR weighs about 8 pounds and runs on 500 to 1,000 watts. TOASTR is lighter at 5 pounds and pulls 800 watts. Both are dishwasher-safe, which matters more than it sounds — anyone who’s hand-scrubbed a stovetop egg pan at 7 a.m. knows exactly why.
Here’s the part that matters if you’re actually considering one: it’s not shipping yet.
EGOR is currently in its Kickstarter and pre-order phase. As of now, the campaign has crossed $1,024,000 from over 4,100 backers — funded in under seven minutes when it launched. Early-bird pricing runs from $199 to $299 for the egg unit alone, with TOASTR bundled in for $349 to $499. But backers aren’t expected to actually receive their units until late 2026, and once the crowdfunding window closes, retail pricing is expected to land closer to $400.
That’s a long runway if you’re just trying to fix your weekday breakfast routine right now. Crowdfunded hardware is also, by nature, a bit of a leap of faith — this is Cheffy’s first product, so there’s no shipping track record to point to yet, even if the concept itself isn’t reinventing any complicated engineering.
If you’re curious enough to reserve one for yourself, pre-orders are open directly through Cheffy.
Is EGOR worth backing?
If you like being early to things and don’t mind the wait, EGOR is a genuinely clever idea executed by a team that seems to have thought through the annoying parts of egg-cooking — the shell mess, the babysitting, the mismatched timing with toast. It’s not solving a hard problem, but it’s solving an annoying one, which is arguably more useful.
If you’re the type who backs things on day one, this is exactly the kind of campaign worth watching.
Frequently Asked Questions
EGOR is currently in its Kickstarter and pre-order phase. Backers aren’t expected to receive their units until late 2026, and retail pricing is expected to land closer to $400 once the crowdfunding window closes.
