Omelettes..*

[jägermonsta]

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet! 

[jägermonsta]

EGGSACTLY WHIRLING


ffs I tried again, with all these tips and stuff, but its still coming out like scrambled eggs, WHAT DO I DO WHEN ITS IN TEH PAN!? 

Sounds like you're  a bad flipper.

[haunted]

cook at low temp and learn to time it right so you only flip it once, throw in 2 kinds of cheese, shrooms, green peppers, and tomatoes and you will be straight.

[[BTF]adam]

lol flip? D;

i just move the fork around in the pan till it start setting, (the eggy stuff), but it gets scrambly and nowhere near flippable.

[haunted]

even if you cook it slow, the bottom will be hard enough for you to flip each side over the insides in around 30 seconds, but you still want to wait longer. After when you do that, you flip it and cook the side that you just overlapped for about 1/2 the time that it did the original side.

[DWxchzrles]

cook at low temp and learn to time it right so you only flip it once, throw in 2 kinds of cheese, shrooms, green peppers, and tomatoes and you will be straight.

never had one with all those ingredients

bet it taste great

[reaper]

i don't know adam, i never beat the eggs good enough. so i put them in a bowl and beat them real good like mike tyson 

[Whirlingdervish]

OK, whatever you do, DONT USE A FORK.
go get a spatula instead. this should solve your scrambling problem.
In case it doesn't here's my recipe:



what you need:

3 eggs
3 table spoons milk
2 slices of well-cooked bacon (ready to crumble)
10-15 1/4" cubes of cooked ham
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
a pinch of salt and pepper
about a 1/8 cup of chopped scallions (green onions)
grated cheese of your choice (colby/jack works nicely)

2 mixing bowls
1 small omelette/sauce pan (about 8" diameter or less)
1 spatula
1 whisk

instructions:

1. crack and beat 3 eggs into a mixing bowl with the whisk

2. add milk to eggs and mix until smooth (no slimey boogers of clear egg left)

3. crumble the bacon into the second mixing bowl (the empty one)

4. add the ham, salt&pepper, and chopped onions to the bowl with the bacon and mix them together

5. take the small pan (before heating it) and use the olive oil to coat it lightly

6. preheat the pan up a bit to about medium heat and turn the burner down to slightly higher than the Low setting

7. add the bacon/ham/onions to the pan and simmer for a minute or so, until the white of the onions goes clear

8. add the egg mixture over the top of the bacon/ham/onions and carefully wiggle the pan until the egg fills in the cracks and flattens out into a pan shaped puddle.. (use the spatula to move it around if you must)

9. let the egg cook for a few minutes until it starts to get fairly solid close to the top. don't fuck with it, just make sure it doesn't burn onto the pan by slightly lifting a leading edge of it with the spatula every so often and checking if it's stuck.

10. carefully, use the spatula to free the rest of the edges of the omelette from the pan and work it underneath the eggs
(spread a tiny bit of oil on the spatula to make it glide right in there of you have to)

11. lift the pan off of the stove a bit with your weak hand (left?) and using the spatula in your right, carefully flip the pan shaped mass of eggs and meat and such, completely over onto the uncooked (still slightly gooey) top side. return the pan to the stovetop

12. now while the last of the egg is cooking (on the bottom now) put the grated cheese directly on top of the omelette and slightly to one side..

13. after about a minute or two, the cheese will begin to melt. TURN OFF THE STOVE at this point. the pan's hot enough to finish the job. Now, use the spatula to free the egg from the pan again and fold the omelette in half with the cheese in the center.

14. lightly press the folded omelette down with the spatula until the cheese sticks it together and cook it for 1 more minute in it's folded state.

15. remove from pan by carefully sliding it onto a plate with the spatula.

16. Serve.

[Daemia]

lol flip? D;

i just move the fork around in the pan till it start setting, (the eggy stuff), but it gets scrambly and nowhere near flippable.

LOL oh adam   that made me laugh very hard! (think of it like making an egg pancake.)

How about next time I make a omelette I will make a short video clip of it 4 ya?     easier to see it done than try to follow an explanation.

[reaper]

god are you to cheap to buy omlettes for dummies - stop trying to get free advice 

[Daemia]

ok so my batteries in my camera were dieing so,  I couldn't make a vid of it, but I did take a few pic's    



STEP 1: 

in a warm NOT HOT pan, add in beaten eggs, peppers, onion, cheese, tomato, mushrooms etc etc... (whatever you want really)  push it down into the egg mix a bit so its not all just floating on top of egg.
COVER and cook on medium for about 10-12 minutes.




STEP 2:

Step 2 is just checking to make sure its cooked long enough on one side.... When it has cooked enough to be 'lifted' like in the pic, its time to flip it.




STEP 3: 

Step 3 is just flipping it without breaking it. 
I find it easiest to just slide the omelette on to a cutting board and then cover it with the frying pan (like its a lid) and just flip the whole cutting board and pan together,  so the omelette lands back in the pan upside down. EZ



STEP 4:

Is just letting it fry on the other side now for about 5 mins covered on medium again, maybe med-low (don't want to burn the cheese).  When its done I quarter it.




Step 5:  ENJOY!   

[[BTF]adam]

!!

very helpful and informative, i'll probably try it later

thx!

[[BTF] Reflex]

I don't even need a spatula,   newbs.

as for filling though,  corned beef hash is great,  crumbled sausage patties,  and some diced onion.   I usually put cheese over the top.

[Daemia]

I don't even need a spatula,   newbs.

   I don't either with a non stick pan  
I only used it to lift it up a bit, to show Adam when its ready to be flipped.
The black spatula in the background (on the stove) was for the home made hash browns 

I eat vegetarian omelettes.   

[Whirlingdervish]

disregard the lives of the 3 chickens you slaughtered and whose mangled gooey corpses you mixed with milk...