Oeufware's patent-pending silicone pan eliminates the boiling, peeling, and halving that have defined deviled egg preparation for a century — and produces twelve identical halves in a single bake. Launching on Kickstarter June 2.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — June 2, 2026 — Lauren Gale was four hours into making deviled eggs for a friend's event when she realized something had to give.
She had volunteered to bring ninety-six of them — forty-eight eggs, halved. By the time she finished boiling, ice-bathing, peeling, halving, scooping, mashing, piping, and plating, half her egg whites were torn, her hands smelled like sulfur, and she had developed what she now calls 'a permanent grudge against the boiled egg.'
"Deviled eggs are everyone's favorite appetizer and nobody's favorite thing to make," Gale said. "I remember standing in my kitchen at midnight, staring at a tray of half-destroyed eggs, thinking — there has to be a better way to do this. So I went looking for the tool. And it didn't exist."
On June 2, after more than a year of design iterations and a stop at the housewares industry's biggest global trade show, Gale launches the world's first half-egg baking pan on Kickstarter — a patent-pending silicone pan she designed herself when she realized no one else had.
A Tool That Should Have Existed
Gale's frustration that night sent her down a research rabbit hole. She searched Amazon, Alibaba, Etsy, every kitchenware retailer she could find. She talked to friends who had worked in restaurants and catering. She found whole-egg molds, half-eggshell molds for chocolate, and dozens of decorative deviled egg platters. What she did not find was a single cookware product designed to do what every home cook actually wants: cook the egg whites in pre-formed halves, with the yolks separate, ready to be mashed into filling.
"It's such a strange gap in the market," Gale said. "People have been making deviled eggs in America for over a hundred years, and the only tool we have for it is a pot of boiling water. I figured if no one had built it yet, I was going to have to build it myself."
She did. Working from her kitchen in St. Petersburg, Florida — a self-described "one-woman startup" — Gale spent the next year designing, prototyping, and testing. Three iterations. Multiple rounds of CAD revisions with her manufacturer. Late nights spent baking test batches and texting feedback to her co-inventor, Alan Jacobson. The result is a silicone pan with six cavity units, each split by an integrated partitioning blade that divides a raw egg white into two perfect mirror-image halves during pouring. The whites cook around the blade. The yolks cook in a separate central channel. Twelve identical, photo-ready deviled egg halves come out in a single bake, each with a built-in cradle for filling.
From the Kitchen to the Trade Show Floor
In March 2026, Gale exhibited the pan at the Inspired Home Show in Chicago — the housewares industry's largest global trade show, where retail buyers from major US chains scout new products. She walked the floor herself, demonstrating the pan to category buyers and industry pros. Local Chicago press caught the story, with coverage running on WGN9 News and NBC 5 Chicago's morning programs.
"I think the moment it became real for me was when an actual buyer from a national retailer picked up my pan, turned it over in his hands, and said, 'Why didn't anyone make this before?' That's what I'd been asking the whole time."
Patent-Pending and Built to Last
Oeufware has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering five inventive features unique to the pan: a raw egg-white partitioning blade, a separated white-and-yolk cooking system, reverse-draft cavity geometry that produces the iconic deviled-egg shape, a built-in yolk-cradle indentation, and a flexible-wall release mechanism made possible by the food-grade silicone construction. The pan is 100% food-grade silicone, BPA-free, FDA-compliant, and rated for use from -40°F to 446°F.
Designed for Deviled Eggs. Used for Everything Else.
During testing, Gale discovered that the pan's silicone construction and half-egg cavity geometry made it useful for far more than deviled eggs. We have produced Jell-O shots, chocolate truffles with cream centers, panna cotta, mousse cups, frozen yogurt bites, sous-vide-style egg-white bites, herb butter molds, and even non-food applications like soap bars, bath bombs, candle pours, and resin charms.
"The pan kept surprising me," Gale said. "I'd design it for one thing, and then I thought to try Jell-O shots and hey came out perfect. Then I tried cornbread bites. Then brownie bites. It became this tool that grows with whatever you can imagine."
Launching on Kickstarter June 2
The thirty-five-day campaign launches June 2, 2026 at kickstarter.com/projects/oeufware. Pledge tiers begin at $59 for early-bird supporters. Each Kickstarter pledge includes the fitted storage lid as a Kickstarter-exclusive bundle that will not be sold together at retail. First fulfillment is targeted for December 2026 through January 2027, in time for spring entertaining season.
"This is the part that still feels surreal," Gale said. "For a year, the pan only existed in my kitchen. Now it's about to exist in other people's kitchens. That's the whole point — making the food you love easier to make. Easier to share. Easier to be proud of."
About Oeufware
Oeufware (pronounced "oof-ware") is a kitchen brand founded in 2025 by Lauren Gale and based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Deviled Egg Baking Pan is the company's first product. Visit oeufware.com or follow @Oeufware on Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and Facebook.
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Editor's Notes:
• Lauren Gale is available for interviews, on-camera demonstrations, and recipe collaborations.
• Review samples are available upon request.
• The Kickstarter campaign can be viewed at kickstarter.com/projects/oeufware.
Media Contact: Lauren Gale, Founder, Oeufware | [email protected] | oeufware.com