To the trained eye this is a device to punch a small hole into an egg. Used mainly to, well, punch holes into eggs to keep them from leaking during the cooking process.
While being a simple and useful device there lies some danger in using it in the wrong position. The correct usage is even documented on Wikipedia (german).
The untrained (or in my case sleepy) eye may not recognize the subtle difference between those two positions, but the outcome speaks for itself (click on image for a larger version):
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