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Calm_Memories t1_j6bqt00 wrote

Reply to comment by purplynurply in [Homemade] A plump French omlette by purplynurply

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Regarding the chopsticks, are you intentionally stirring without touching the bottom or are you scraping it? Should the sides be scraped right away or once egg has begun to cook/form? I hadn't tried using them and I wonder if my rubber spat is part of my issue.

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purplynurply OP t1_j6bp3hb wrote

Reply to comment by Calm_Memories in [Homemade] A plump French omlette by purplynurply

French omelettes are very technique driven and notoriously one of the hardest egg dishes to make well. It's taken me a long time to get proficient at them but I'm pretty obsessive about cooking, so of course now it's basically the only type of omelette I make lol. I would say don't even bother with them unless you're into that type of finicky thing.

Couple of key tricks to getting a nice French omelette:

  1. Use a non-stick pan. I've made them successfully in a carbon steel pan before but it's much much more difficult to avoid sticking and get the correct texture. Save yourself the frustration.

  2. Preheat the pan well on medium low. At least a few minutes. You don't want the pan to be too hot but you need to make sure there is enough thermal mass in the pan to cook the eggs without the pan cooling off and totally stunting the cooking process.

  3. Butter. Even though you're using a non-stick pan, you still wanna use a good amount of butter. At least half a tbsp. Add it to the pan once preheated and just as the bubbles start to dissipate is the right time to add your eggs. You don't want to let it brown at all.

  4. Chopsticks. You need to keep the eggs moving from the moment they hit the pan and I find the best way to do this is to use a pair of wooden chopsticks as your stirring implement. They're really a great, nimble tool and make it easy to scrape any egg off the side of the pan, etc.

  5. Watch a bunch of videos on people making them to get a sense of the technique. And then practice, practice, practice. Worst comes to worst, you'll just end up with more of a regular omelette or if it gets really bad, well then you've always got scrambled eggs to fall back on.

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ColoursRock t1_j6bkddb wrote

Reply to [I ate] Breakfast Burrito by Nymer1a_S4nd

Let's take a whole bunch of ingredients and cook them and wrap it up in a tortilla so that it can be eaten conveniently without getting dirty, and then let's slap a bunch of food all over the top of it so that you're going to have to get dirty anyway.

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