Breakfast sets you up for the day. However, when you’re running a business, you may struggle to find time for such a luxury.

Breakfast sets you up for the day. However, when you’re running a business, you may struggle to find time for such a luxury.

There may be time for a half-heartedly buttered slice of brown bread and jam as you head for the door, but in our increasingly hectic lifestyles, rarely is there the opportunity for anything approaching a Full English. Perhaps a happy medium is all one needs to start the day properly.

Consider then, the invention that is proving to be a winner in the US: the egg and muffin toaster. This little slice of genius sports a fully functioning toaster and egg poacher, which can be used simultaneously to make ‘the ultimate breakfast sandwich in just four minutes’, boasts its manufacturer Back to Basics.

If poached eggs aren’t your thing, an integrated steamer tray can boil up to four eggs at a time with hard, medium and soft-boiled settings. A little greedy perhaps, but when you have a report to present to the board, you need to make sure you’re fully prepared. Unfortunately, if you want soldiers, you have to cut them yourself.