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How do I best turn an omelet?

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Whenever I make an omelet I have a hard time turning it over to fry it from both sides. I use a plate, cover the pan and turn everything so that, in the best case, the omelet now is on my plate and I can just put it back into the pan with the not fried site facing down.

However, very often the omelet is outright stuck in my pan and I can't seem to get it off. This leads to me making scrambled eggs instead of an omelet (which is not the goal).

I normally preheat the pan to medium heat with some oil. Should I add more oil so that the omelet is floating onto the oil? If I do so, I fear to burn myself with excess oil when turning the omelet. Are there other methods so that I can always enjoy a nice omelet? What are the best ways to turn an omelet?

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I had that exactly same problem... And solved it for good buying something that, here in São Paulo, we call "omeleteira" (which would translate to something like "omelet maker").

Its just two frying pans that fit together... So when it's time to turn the omelet, you just fit the other pan on top of the one you are using to cook one side of the omelet, turn the whole set and then let the other side fry on the other pan.

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Zerotime‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Wow, never seen that before. I asked a question regarding other uses for an omelet maker here. If you have experience using one, please consider sharing your experiences :)

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Do those pans come apart so you could use them as regular pans for things other than omelets?

Mithrandir24601‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago

This looks pretty useful when it comes to making omelettes, but would you be able to explain how this helps with the "very often the omelet is outright stuck in my pan" part of the question, given that it won't just flip over onto a plate easily either?

Pestana‭ wrote over 4 years ago

The pans have non-stick coatings... So it will probably not remain stuck (it never happened to me)

Pestana‭ wrote over 4 years ago

And yes, the pans come apart you fit them together only when its time to flip