Spanish woman María José Fuster has spent half a century collecting over 15,000 egg cups, breaking the Guinness World Record.
According to the report by Guinness World Records website on July 7, Fuster, a genealogist and historian, has a passion for collecting all kinds of egg cups. Over the past 50 years, she has amassed 15,485 egg cups, officially recognized as the largest egg cup collection in the world.
Egg cups are tools used to hold boiled eggs for convenient consumption, especially for soft-boiled or runny eggs as their yolks are not fully cooked and can be messy to eat.
Fuster’s collection of egg cups features various designs, including unique shapes such as horses, along with novelty egg cups portraying characters like Garfield, Superman, and Betty Boop.
In July 2023, Fuster’s hometown Campo opened a new community center where she displayed her lifelong collection of egg cups. With the help of two witnesses, it took them three hours to count the total number of egg cups.
Fuster has created two blogs dedicated to her hobby, one documenting each item in her collection, and another listing people who have donated egg cups to her.
Her most precious egg cups, around 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
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Here are some other interesting world records related to eggs:
– Largest collection of scientific use eggs: As of 2008, the Natural History Museum in London, UK, houses over one million eggs used for the research of bird life and evolution.
– Largest collection of dinosaur eggs: By November 2004, the Heyuan Museum in Guangdong, China, held 10,008 unique samples of dinosaur eggs. These eggs date back to the Late Cretaceous period, between 100 million to 66 million years ago, including those of Oviraptor dinosaurs.
– Most participants in an egg and spoon race: On October 11, 2024, 2,039 people in Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico, celebrated World Egg Day by joining this event. The region is a hub for poultry farming and egg production, hosting cultural, culinary, and social activities.
– Most eggs turned upside down in cups by blowing air in one minute: American Ashrita Furman set this world record on November 9, 2015, in London. He managed to flip 67 eggs in cups by blowing air within a minute. The eggs were freshly purchased in the local market.
Click here to watch a video of Furman attempting this record.