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I WANT ONE.
Did you see that video? Who the hell cracks an egg by smacking it with a knife while holding it to the side of the thing you want to put egg in? Can’t we, as a country, just decide learn a few key pieces kitchen dexterity? I’m not saying everyone needs to do fancy one hand cracks (though it is quite a useful skill) — just learn to crack your fucking eggs, america!
I find it hilarious that cracking the egg is the major hurdle for some people. Not the measuring of ingredients, mixing, and actual cooking.
But, come on, it mixes the egg while still inside the shell!
That being said, I used to crack like 8 at at time with the youngest cook at Paula’s during my college years. We sure had fun.
Holy shit, I hadn’t watched the video. I didn’t see the scrambler. That’s absolutely absurd. I can’t believe that exists.
Also, if I ever meet anyone who has made a egg white omelet, I’m going to punch them in the fucking mouth.
I make egg white omelets all the time. 1)I’ve had plenty of full egg omelets over the years so I know of which I speak, and 2) I actually like them better with just whites. I like full egg scrambled eggs, and full fried eggs, and full soft boiled or poached eggs. But full egg omelet’s do nothing for me. Especially if they are fluffy. There is one place by us that is renowned for their fluffy, brilliant omelets and they do nothing for me.
And here, let me save you the typing time: you have some amazing culinary insight as to why I’m wrong and that if only I had the incredible personal window into the kitchen sciences that you did or if I had an omelet prepared at some specific location that you may or may not have ever actually been to yourself or had it prepared by someone whose food you yourself may or may not have eaten, I would somehow have my personal taste magically changed.
The Scrabbled: Home of the Preemptive Burn.
JERK!
Omelets aren’t supposed to be fluffy. I’ve never had a real omelet in a restaurant, and you’ve probably never had one either. You’ve had mixed and folded scrambled eggs. Granted, I don’t know why you would prefer to not have yolks with that, either, but you can’t actually make an omelet without yolks. It’s not chemically possible.
So to hell your premptive burn — next time I’m up there overnight, I’m making omelet and you’re gonna LIKE EM.
This just goes to show that no matter how hard, extreme, and completely over the top one actually tries to parody something, there are just certain people/places/things from which real life will always surpass even the most ridiculously exaggerated attempts.
Certain things like omelets.
O.K. I’ll bite (I’ll regret this I’m sure, but I’ll bite nonetheless): What would renowned gourmand John Hutchinson do in making an omelet that the hundreds of cooks/restaurants of varying renowned in roughly 30 or so states and 3-4 countries over the past 40 years have gotten wrong in making their apparently erroneously named dishes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWmvfUKwBrg
Maybe you’ve had a properly cooked one, I dunno, but every omelet I’ve ever had in a restaurant has been scrambled eggs, with stuff in them, folded. That’s not an omelet and I’ve never known a place that makes a proper omelet. I’ve only made them myself and they’re something else entirely.
However, If you have had what Julia makes there and you didn’t like it, well… I don’t get it. But in either case, you can’t make what she makes there without the egg yolks. Remove the yolks, it ceases to be an omelet. That’s the source of my outrage. Like faux-chicken. Just call it tofu or something. It’s not chicken and it’s not fooling anyone.
I have had ones done like that, and no I don’t care for them. Done that way they taste and look more to me like scrambled eggs than the way you are describing as not an omelet.
But also the fact that I’ve seen shows where other renowned chefs cook omelets not that way and more the way you’re saying is not an omelet, leads me to believe there are a few different (perhaps geographical or provincial differences) acceptable ways that still fit the definition of an omelet. Except of course in John world…..
Jay said:The Scrabbled: Home of the Preemptive Burn.
So true… hahahaha.
All kidding/shtick aside, my cousin took a bunch of classes/seminars with Julia Child (at whatever culinary institute he attended back in the 80’s), and got to know her and actually was a guest chef on either her show or a video series she did and from what he said, every parody/cliche/stereotype of her as a heavy drinking, flirty, dirty old broad was 100% accurate.
On 04/23/10 at 09:54 AM, John is hungry was all:
John said:Did you see that video? Who the hell cracks an egg by smacking it with a knife while holding it to the side of the thing you want to put…..
then at 04/23/10 at 04:29 PM…….
John said:Holy shit, I hadn’t watched the video. I didn’t see the scrambler. That’s absolutely absurd.
The WHOLE video. I think I closed the window right after the knife crack the first time. That’s, like, 3 seconds in.
john lies
a heavy drinking, flirty, dirty old broad was 100% accurate.
She is my hero.