Omelets are delicious and perfect for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Learn how to make the best omelets that are fluffy, healthy, and oh so yummy. Step-by-step s included to walk you through the process!
I love them for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Not only are they super yummy, but they are also quite healthy. You can pack a ton of protein, fiber, calcium, and other nutrients into these fluffy pillows of goodness without even hardly trying.
I used to have this issue with omelets that they turned out to be more like scrambled eggs than omelets. Then, with Dustin’s help, I have learned the correct ratio of meat to egg to veggie in order to achieve fluffy omelet perfection.
Dustin’s good like that – he makes a mean scrambled eggs, too. Learn more about that here.
And, today, I have to share his tips for how to make the best omelets with you.
When eating out, lots of restaurants make omelets by creating an almost crepe-like egg mixture and then wrapping that around all the omelet innards. There must be people who enjoy their omelets like that, but I am certainly not one of them. Instead, I like the omelet innards (meat and veggies) to be mixed in with the eggs. That way, the omelet is fluffier, tastier and, in my opinion, better.
And, if you are like me, you are in the right place! It’s really easy to learn how to make fluffy omelet.
We love omelets for dinner around here. We make them with some toast and roasted potatoes. Or just by themselves to save the calories on the extra carbs.
For this recipe, I used ham, spinach, mushroom, and cheddar cheese, but these ingredients can easily be substituted for your favorite fillings. If you’d like to use thick-cut ham, we ask the person at the deli to cut us extra thick ham just as you would lunch meat. And we get the low sodium, no sugar added ham and it’s delicious.
It’s an old diner trick. The mixer whips air into the egg mix and when poured, immediately, into a hot pan, the eggs will soufflé, or become fluffy. You can easily replicate this at home with a blender. Just whip your eggs in a blender while your omelette pan is heating.
According to Savuer, the Waffle Houses secret culinary weapon for creating their fluffy omelettes is actually a milkshake machine. A cook at a Waffle House in East Point, Ga. named Edwin Johnson told the site that the chain is able to achieve ultimate “puffiness” by whipping up the eggs with their milkshake machine. Savuer then put this concept to the test using nothing more than their handheld mixer and were able to pull off results that were almost equal to that of Waffle House. To do this in your own kitchen, they say you will want to have your handheld mixer on its highest speed and beat the eggs until their volume is thrice what it started at, giving them a “pale and frothy” appearance. They estimate this will take you two minutes to execute.
Omelettes are egg-actly what you think they are. Per ifood.tv, omelettes are just like pancakes, only they are made with eggs that are aerated to perfection, fried in butter or oil, seasoned with salt and pepper, and customized with a few additional ingredients, such as cheese, onions, bell pepper, ham, bacon, or sausage that are swirled in and cooked until your omelette is fabulously fluffy and ready to devour. The origin of this dish is a little difficult to follow. There is conjecture that omelettes might have first made their appearance on our dinner plates in the orient, but everyone from Conquistadors to Napoleon had a supporting role in this foods story as it evolved into the meal we know and love today.
A Quora user notes that he, too, has seen the Waffle House use a milkshake machine to achieve the fluffy omelettes their customers know and love. But he also went on to share that you will also need to swirl the pan while the omelette cooks. He explained that, when he worked in a restaurant and had to make omelettes, he “…could make them fluff 2 inches thick if they were really well aerated and I swirled the hot pan enough.”
But people can be pretty particular about how these eggy pancakes are made. In fact, we can make some big mistakes when we cook omelettes, but one restaurant makes them better and fluffier than most. Waffle House may be known for their waffles, but this breakfast food eatery makes their omelettes so fluffy, we needed to know their secret so we can replicate that light as air texture the next time we make our favorite Southwestern or Mediterranean omelette at home. After a lot of Googling, we can tell you how the Waffle House makes their omelettes so fluffy.
DO YOU NEED TO ADD MILK TO AN OMELET?
Now, let’s talk about milk.
Some people like to add milk to their omelets, while others despise it. People who add milk think they get creamier and fluffier omelets, while people who hate adding milk to omelets think milk only makes the eggs tougher.
I don’t want to pick sides, but I will tell you that you don’t have to add milk to your omelet to make it fluffy.
I’ll teach you how to make fluffy omelet without milk! How about that? Then, Ill let YOU decide
How do restaurants make omelettes so fluffy?@Ansci’s Kitchen
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