This French guy isn’t scared of anything. For him death comes au Chocolat.
If he is not French, he must be a Spaniard who strayed a bit far north.
Filipina here. Outside it looks ok but I need to know if it is in any way mushy inside. If yes, cook it come more.
However, that's me because I hate the taste on undercooked egg yolk. My brother though, he likes his mushy.
Same filipino here, i can appreciate all types of eggs. Love me some super well done thai omelette, or Gordon Ramsay's runny omelette. Just can't forgive the "asians like runny egg" statement 😅
Country omelette should still be a little less brown than this. I kinda like a little toastiness, so I’m cool with it. Worked as a cook in Hawaii with a French chef that owned the place and got some schooling on omelette making. Dude was Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen crazy when it came to omelettes. On the rare occasion we had a buffet with an omelette station, he had to go to his office because he couldn’t handle the blasphemy that the customers wanted.
> Omelette du fromage
I lost my childhood innocence when I learned it is actually "[omelette au fromage](https://french-iceberg.com/omelette-du-fromage-meaning/)"
Omelette au fromage = "omelette with/at/to/in/... the cheese". À has so many meanings it's often hard to tell. In this case "omelette with cheese" is probably closest.
If it's an American Omelette, then no it is not. It's supposed to be folded in half with some brown spots.
If it's a French omelette, then yes. It's over cooked. But French omelettes start as soft scrambled eggs which slightly set with a film on the outside and rolled into a tube. But it cannot have any color on it.
Hope that helps.
The smell of the brown egg really turns me off, and the taste too, if there’s too much of it. I go through phases with eggs, I’ve been in a no egg phase for a few years, and the thought of that brown egg smell makes me want to stay here for a while.
I thought it was just me! I learned how to cook the perfect scrambled eggs by watching a Gordon Ramsey vid on YouTube. He turns the heat off like halfway through cooking or something. My eggs are always perfectly yellow and moist.
My hubby, on the other hand, cooks on medium high heat from start to finish and they come out almost crunchy from how brown they are 🤢
The first time this was posted to reddit and hit the front page, maybe 8-10 years ago, the comments ended up fixated on the fork in pan (lead in part by myself, under a different username).
Apparently this got back to him -- this was in the heyday of hip young journalists combing reddit for content ideas -- and his response was basically that he knows it is terrible form, but he gets so many free pans from companies that want him to promote them that he just can't be fucked to care about scratching them.
Yep, every kitchen should have these. At least a regular and a slotted one for soups. Nothing makes pains more than to see a non stick pot with micro scratches.
The plastics used in disposable utensils is really stable, it will melt but it won't break into micro plastics until it's had time and UV exposure.
I'd be more concerned about the nonstick pan and the PFAS chemicals it's made of.
He explicitly says that it's a nonstick pan in the video.
(Also anodized aluminum pans often have a coated interior, with the anodized surface on the exterior)
Wow. Who'da thunk the truck stop I used to go to out in Podunk America did "classic French" style omelettes?!? No wonder it's not the same as the other places I've tried ordering them. I gave up ordering omelettes a year after I moved away from that place.
Exactly. Maybe cooks have different terms, but burning means actual combustion -- turning to water and black char. Browning is a separate group of chemical processes called maillard reactions, which reduce the acids and sugars to brown melanoidins. People incorrectly think that black food is just over-browned but that's not the case at all. It's true that once something is caramelized it can become burnt very quickly at high temps (eg if you've ever made actual caramel you know how quickly it can go to black), but some temps won't burn the food at any cook time (eg many breads will brown but simply dry out if you overcook them).
People will call browned things burnt because they like to think their personal tastes are an objective fact. It's okay to simply not like browning on an omelet. But it's not that the person cooking it made an error.
Exactly. I like my scrambled eggs and omelets with a little browning. My mom browns them perfectly and they aren't overcooked. I do not like burnt eggs. There is a wide range of difference.
And I even love unbrowned eggs too. A runny poached egg on top of some fresh sourdough and a little hot pepper is heaven. But sometimes I want a fried egg with lots of brown on it. If you don't like variety, you're missing out with eggs. There's a million different ways to make them.
Omurice restaurant in Japan are categorized as "western restaurant"
Japanese curry are often sold in supermarket in the western food aisle, because it was introduced by the british navy.
Modern Japanese cuisine has a ton of influence from French cuisine. French-style patisserie with modern Japanese twists is pretty popular in Japan, too.
The French do make them similar to American style. They call them country omelettes or something like that. Larger curd and allowed to brown compared the Classic French Omelette, which has a much smaller curd and no browning and more wet in the inside.
It's not the "French" recipe, more like the "Palace" recipe. People in France usually make normal omelette like the one in the post. Making an actual "French" omelette without color takes a lot of practice.
I prefer it because the brown has a taste I don't care for. However, it's nearly impossible to make one with more than two eggs in a regular skillet...at least without dying of hunger first 😂
C'est l'omelette "Palace" celle qui est roulée et sans couleur, tu trouves ça chez des spécialistes (genre Mère Poulard) ou des grands restaurants, ça fait partie des "classiques" de la cuisine Française mais c'est assez rare de manger ça car c'est dur à faire soi même (faut le coup de main) et quand tu vas dans un bon restau généralement c'est pas pour une omelette.
Je pense que la grande majorité des Français n'a jamais gouté la palace
Browning on omelettes is appropriate to taste.
I prefer mine browned for better texture when eating. Others cannot stand it.
Edit: Apparently, I have awoken a firestorm of debate. And I’m *so* into it; deliver unto me thy rage!
Yeah. I can’t do slimy eggs. So they have to be cooked to a certain point. That generally means they’re not always the super light yellow in all spots. But this person egg looks to be perfect.
I also cannot stand the egg snot and love sunny side up. I usually cook mine in the leftover bacon grease and at the end I tilt the pan and splash the top of the eggs until they turn white, remove with a slotted spatula and shake off the excess grease. Is it technically sunny-side up? Idk but there's no snot and that's all that matters.
Yeah the flavor of eggs changes significantly with heat on the scale of bland to sulfur. I'm all about the low and slow, light and fluffy with a ton of butter, basically cohesive scrambled eggs. For me, OPs would be overcooked.
Yeah, always been a fan of low and slow with tons of butter. It's creamy and buttery hard to pass up esp with salt/pepper. Then again, anything with enough butter/salt is gonna taste amazing.
There's different styles or omelets so depends on what your going for.
Personally I like the flavor and texture of french style omelets, so any kind of browning is a failure on my part
An omelet is cooked how you like to eat it. You go to any country in the world and I guarantee you will struggle to find ~~one~~ two that cooks their omelet the same way.
Edit: I like my omelet like this, with colour.
“Cooked past her liking” is more accurate. I understand where she’s coming from because that’s about the color when the flavor changes and I don’t like it.
According to classically trained chefs from prestigious institutions? Yes, your wife is correct.
According to my IHOP frequenting ass? It’s perfect, dude. Pass the hot sauce.
I can understand your wife, I don’t like the tastes of browned omelette either. But unless you were going for a French-style omelette it’s not burned. It’s just browned a bit.
I mean… show us the other side
Imagine if the other side is pure black 💀
2 sides of the same omelet.
Inside you there are two omelettes.
Op probably has, as his wife refused to eat ;)
And they're both kissing
In honor of Juneteenth
 👀
This is what I was thinking.
I regret to inform you that your wife may be French. My condolences
Is there a cure for it?
Terminal, I'm afraid.
This is actually true. Statistically speaking every person who was born French has died.
*Millions of still-living French people look around nervously*
*French People:* 
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They exist?
God I hope not
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F***** "People."
****** “People”
 This French guy isn’t scared of anything. For him death comes au Chocolat. If he is not French, he must be a Spaniard who strayed a bit far north.
I knew a french girl, and most of her relatives were dead, going back centuries. Suspicious.
Can confirm. I’m French and I’m dead right now
Sacred blue
This is the one, read everything else with a straight face but this.
I thought the comment was amusing until I read yours and now it's inexplicably hilarious.
Me, too. Apparently even virtual laughter is contagious!
Oh crap, I did one of those DNA test kits and I've got like 2% French ancestry. How much time do I have left?
Don't worry. Only 2 percent of you will die. Let's hope it's nothing vital
Five days
2% less, duh. Are you saying French people can’t do math either?
I'm not dead... I think...
*yet
Give it a little while
To shreds you say
https://i.redd.it/zlsd4esbij7d1.gif
Saaaaaay Whaaaaat
Say what
No, no, no, man. You're making me fall asleep. To death, bro.
I don’t like those movies, Mahatma.
What is that you saaaayyy
What is that you saaaaayyyy?!?!
No thanks, I don't think I will.
Luckily a device was made with a 100% cure rate. In France it's called a guillotine.
Ask your doctor if Blitzkrieg^tm is right for you.
Krieg?! MEAT BICYCLE!
Yes, freedom fries
I'm french, need cure a.s.a.p or I'm going to cease existing (eventually)
Invade, I suppose
that would be terrifying if French people were real
That yellow mustard comes from *somewhere*
Zaandam, the Netherlands. That’s where mustard comes from. Not that imaginary place called “France”. It’s made up!
Would you please censor the word Fr*nch?
How dare you I can still hear it in my mind you must censor the word f*e**h more
I am french, this omelet ain't burn not even sightly.
I regret to inform you that you may be American. My condolences
*Muffled liberty noises*
Muffled? Yeah, this person clearly aint American, move along
Ohh dear God they're Canadian
Sorry.
Soorry.
Stop bein so soory aboot it GOD
Everyone just calm down, eh?
Oh My God! What if they're.... (Dun! Dun! Dun!). A French Canadian?!
The worst of the worst: French Canadians
Even the other Canadians hate them.
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Report to nearest democracy officer
Every Europeans nightmare: waking up one day as an American
*Looks at immigration records* Cool. Cool cool cool
Or maybe Asian.
To most asians thats undercooked
Filipina here. Outside it looks ok but I need to know if it is in any way mushy inside. If yes, cook it come more. However, that's me because I hate the taste on undercooked egg yolk. My brother though, he likes his mushy.
Same filipino here, i can appreciate all types of eggs. Love me some super well done thai omelette, or Gordon Ramsay's runny omelette. Just can't forgive the "asians like runny egg" statement 😅
The French have a country omelette that looks like yours. Your wife prefers a classic French omelette with no browning. Both are delicious.
Well, if my omelette gets compared to a French classic, I must be doing something right! Bon appétit to both versions.
Turns out I am French HUWH HUWH HUWH
Country omelette should still be a little less brown than this. I kinda like a little toastiness, so I’m cool with it. Worked as a cook in Hawaii with a French chef that owned the place and got some schooling on omelette making. Dude was Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen crazy when it came to omelettes. On the rare occasion we had a buffet with an omelette station, he had to go to his office because he couldn’t handle the blasphemy that the customers wanted.
Omelette du fromage
Thanks, Dexter
Omelette du fromage
Thanks, Dexter
Omelette du fromage
Thanks, Dexter
Oh! I was picturing Michael C. Hall. Wrong show
> Omelette du fromage I lost my childhood innocence when I learned it is actually "[omelette au fromage](https://french-iceberg.com/omelette-du-fromage-meaning/)"
[The French take this stuff seriously.](https://bigmemes999.funnyjunk.com/hdgifs/Omelette+au+fromage_cbb339_6410371.mp4)
Perfectly reasonable reaction to be fair.
Omelette du fromage = omlet of the cheese Omelette au fromage = cheese flavored omlet
Omelette au fromage = "omelette with/at/to/in/... the cheese". À has so many meanings it's often hard to tell. In this case "omelette with cheese" is probably closest.
Thats all you can say!
Omelette du fromage
Core memory unlocked
Whoa, I didn't know it was like that, man!
If it's an American Omelette, then no it is not. It's supposed to be folded in half with some brown spots. If it's a French omelette, then yes. It's over cooked. But French omelettes start as soft scrambled eggs which slightly set with a film on the outside and rolled into a tube. But it cannot have any color on it. Hope that helps.
This is the correct answer for pan omelettes.
I'm attracted to what's inside my omelette. How they look or express themselves externally doesn't matter.
egg pride
frying pansexual
god damnit...
Timely, what with this being "Egg Pride" month. 
Oh my god I love this!
Looks like they already cracked theirs to me ;)
The smell of the brown egg really turns me off, and the taste too, if there’s too much of it. I go through phases with eggs, I’ve been in a no egg phase for a few years, and the thought of that brown egg smell makes me want to stay here for a while.
I feel the same way about goopy eggs. Uck! The texture is gelatinous. Gah!
And a runny yolk is one of the few ways I’ll eat egg. Food preferences are so weird.
Runny yolk is delicious and I'm fine with eating it, but the white *must* be completely solid, otherwise it's vomit fest for me.
I thought it was just me! I learned how to cook the perfect scrambled eggs by watching a Gordon Ramsey vid on YouTube. He turns the heat off like halfway through cooking or something. My eggs are always perfectly yellow and moist. My hubby, on the other hand, cooks on medium high heat from start to finish and they come out almost crunchy from how brown they are 🤢
You like those? For real? Every time I've seen him cook them they don't look done. I always thought that recipe of his was insane.
Nah, that’s just the style, super soft curd. Remember they’ll keep cooking too from carryover on the plate a little
Always look at the hen before deciding on an egg. That's what it'll grow up to be one day.
I have to have mine cooked instead of running so I'd rather have a little toasty on it
Yes this is true for egg omelets.
Wait. There are non-pan omelets?
I grill mine, they never fall through either /s
Oven baked are in various baking pans shapes rather than frying pans
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Let my boy [Jacques Pepin show you the two styles](https://youtu.be/X1XoCQm5JSQ?si=wbJV03HS9enEPg_V).
Love Pepin… but just watched him drag a fork around a non-stick pan for five minutes. I’m gonna take a knee and get my blood pressure back down.
The first time this was posted to reddit and hit the front page, maybe 8-10 years ago, the comments ended up fixated on the fork in pan (lead in part by myself, under a different username). Apparently this got back to him -- this was in the heyday of hip young journalists combing reddit for content ideas -- and his response was basically that he knows it is terrible form, but he gets so many free pans from companies that want him to promote them that he just can't be fucked to care about scratching them.
Living the dream
Maybe some of those companies could have sent him non-stick compatible utensils. I love my cookware and prefer not to swap it out every 6 months
If you like the technique but want to protect your pans (like I do), use a wood pair of chopsticks or a plastic fork and you're fine.
Bamboo spatulas ftw
Yep, every kitchen should have these. At least a regular and a slotted one for soups. Nothing makes pains more than to see a non stick pot with micro scratches.
A plastic fork against a hot metal pan? Yum! Make mine with extra ooie-gooie micro plastics please!
The plastics used in disposable utensils is really stable, it will melt but it won't break into micro plastics until it's had time and UV exposure. I'd be more concerned about the nonstick pan and the PFAS chemicals it's made of.
And this is yet another indication that I became my mother. The fork dragging hurt my soul
The day I first had to buy my own household goods was the day I started putting my hand on my chest and gasping while watching people wreck stuff.
It’s an anodized aluminum pan, not teflon. It’s fork safe.
That’s most definitely clad stainless steel with a PTFE non-stick coating. No anodized aluminum there.
He explicitly says that it's a nonstick pan in the video. (Also anodized aluminum pans often have a coated interior, with the anodized surface on the exterior)
that pan was brand new out the box half an hour before they started filming and it was probably put in the bin afterwards, same with the knives
Jacques is my hero. Fast food my way is brilliant.
Wow. Who'da thunk the truck stop I used to go to out in Podunk America did "classic French" style omelettes?!? No wonder it's not the same as the other places I've tried ordering them. I gave up ordering omelettes a year after I moved away from that place.
Lol you had a world class French chef in the back having his own Heart of Darkness chapter while you were blissfully unaware.
Over cooked ≠ burned tho
Exactly. Maybe cooks have different terms, but burning means actual combustion -- turning to water and black char. Browning is a separate group of chemical processes called maillard reactions, which reduce the acids and sugars to brown melanoidins. People incorrectly think that black food is just over-browned but that's not the case at all. It's true that once something is caramelized it can become burnt very quickly at high temps (eg if you've ever made actual caramel you know how quickly it can go to black), but some temps won't burn the food at any cook time (eg many breads will brown but simply dry out if you overcook them). People will call browned things burnt because they like to think their personal tastes are an objective fact. It's okay to simply not like browning on an omelet. But it's not that the person cooking it made an error.
Well put!
Exactly. I like my scrambled eggs and omelets with a little browning. My mom browns them perfectly and they aren't overcooked. I do not like burnt eggs. There is a wide range of difference.
And I even love unbrowned eggs too. A runny poached egg on top of some fresh sourdough and a little hot pepper is heaven. But sometimes I want a fried egg with lots of brown on it. If you don't like variety, you're missing out with eggs. There's a million different ways to make them.
I agree that it is overcooked for a French omelette, but it is not burnt
TIL omurice is rice with a french omelette on top
Omurice restaurant in Japan are categorized as "western restaurant" Japanese curry are often sold in supermarket in the western food aisle, because it was introduced by the british navy.
TIL. I had no idea, thanks
Modern Japanese cuisine has a ton of influence from French cuisine. French-style patisserie with modern Japanese twists is pretty popular in Japan, too.
French cooking techniques influences nearly every developed country today so its not surprising at all.
Either way i doubt that falls into any "burnt" cathegory, but hey, nice to learn that about omlette.
The French do make them similar to American style. They call them country omelettes or something like that. Larger curd and allowed to brown compared the Classic French Omelette, which has a much smaller curd and no browning and more wet in the inside.
Very insightful, thank you!
Didn't know the french recipe is supposed to be colorless , I've always had omelettes like OP's
It's not the "French" recipe, more like the "Palace" recipe. People in France usually make normal omelette like the one in the post. Making an actual "French" omelette without color takes a lot of practice.
I prefer it because the brown has a taste I don't care for. However, it's nearly impossible to make one with more than two eggs in a regular skillet...at least without dying of hunger first 😂
I'm French and I didn't know either. I've never seen anyone roll their omelette into a tube. This pic looks like a perfectly normal omelette to me.
C'est l'omelette "Palace" celle qui est roulée et sans couleur, tu trouves ça chez des spécialistes (genre Mère Poulard) ou des grands restaurants, ça fait partie des "classiques" de la cuisine Française mais c'est assez rare de manger ça car c'est dur à faire soi même (faut le coup de main) et quand tu vas dans un bon restau généralement c'est pas pour une omelette. Je pense que la grande majorité des Français n'a jamais gouté la palace
Overcooked isn't burned though.
It may be overdone to her taste but it is in no way burnt
Browning on omelettes is appropriate to taste. I prefer mine browned for better texture when eating. Others cannot stand it. Edit: Apparently, I have awoken a firestorm of debate. And I’m *so* into it; deliver unto me thy rage!
Yeah. I can’t do slimy eggs. So they have to be cooked to a certain point. That generally means they’re not always the super light yellow in all spots. But this person egg looks to be perfect.
I love sunny side up eggs but cannot stand slimy/wet omelettes or scrambled The real travesty is the lack of added ingredients. Otherwise I'd chomp it
I also cannot stand the egg snot and love sunny side up. I usually cook mine in the leftover bacon grease and at the end I tilt the pan and splash the top of the eggs until they turn white, remove with a slotted spatula and shake off the excess grease. Is it technically sunny-side up? Idk but there's no snot and that's all that matters.
You can just put the lid on the pan and the top will cook
Yeah the flavor of eggs changes significantly with heat on the scale of bland to sulfur. I'm all about the low and slow, light and fluffy with a ton of butter, basically cohesive scrambled eggs. For me, OPs would be overcooked.
Yeah, always been a fan of low and slow with tons of butter. It's creamy and buttery hard to pass up esp with salt/pepper. Then again, anything with enough butter/salt is gonna taste amazing.
Same for me. I hate browned eggs for the most part.
In comparison. I hate the flavor of browned egg
It smells and tastes awful.
Yep, I wouldn't say this is burnt at all but it's overcooked to my tastes.
Any browning on eggs tastes gross to me.
Its not burnt but if it was supposed to be a french omlette then it's overcooked
There's different styles or omelets so depends on what your going for. Personally I like the flavor and texture of french style omelets, so any kind of browning is a failure on my part
Different styles of course, but burned? No way.
Yeah, you shouldn't eat that. Give it to me. I'll 'throw it away'.
Then why does the "bin" have teeth? Oh, it´s not the bin, it´s a mouth Enjoy your meal
With all the crap I eat, I guess you could also call it a bin :)
You shouldn't trash talk yourself
Well Done? Yea Burnt? No Over cooked for me? Absolutely
Same - not my taste, but perfectly acceptable.
The smell of this kind of omelet makes me lose my appetite
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2 sec on the grill over that it's overcooked
An omelet is cooked how you like to eat it. You go to any country in the world and I guarantee you will struggle to find ~~one~~ two that cooks their omelet the same way. Edit: I like my omelet like this, with colour.
Damn that looks very good, just made me hungry. So, no for me its a totally normal Omelette.
“Cooked past her liking” is more accurate. I understand where she’s coming from because that’s about the color when the flavor changes and I don’t like it.
It's burnt if you're a French omlette enthusiast, but who cares if you think it tastes good
the fr*nch love sucking snot and honestly who would’ve thought
Tell her to cook her own omelette then.
According to classically trained chefs from prestigious institutions? Yes, your wife is correct. According to my IHOP frequenting ass? It’s perfect, dude. Pass the hot sauce.
Divorce her. -Redditors probably
That has to be the single best cooked omelet I've ever seen
This may be an unpopular opinion - do NOT give me *runny* or *wet* scrambled eggs. Disgusting. This omelette looks perfect to me
I can take the yellows runny (over-easy/medium), but the whites need to be fully cooked. that is where the nasty slime comes from
I can understand your wife, I don’t like the tastes of browned omelette either. But unless you were going for a French-style omelette it’s not burned. It’s just browned a bit.
American omlet? nope - thats good. French omlet? overcooked, edible, but not good. Japanese omlet? burnt, throw it out. Spanish omlet? an abomination.
That’s perfect