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How do I best turn an omelet?
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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You ask in your question if you should add more oil when you have this problem. Absolutely not.
When I have trouble keeping the omelette together, it's almost always a sign that I've added too much oil (and then it devolves into scrambled eggs). It burns too much, gets burnt onto the pan, and doesn't flip.
The way my mother taught me how to get a proper omelette flipped is to fold it in half.
Put a little bit of oil on the pan, heat it and spread it around, then pour your egg in (usually two eggs). Use a spatula to keep it from spreading too much. After a minute or two, it should be solid enough that you can take your spatula, put it under part of your omelette, and fold it over onto itself. Your omelette should now take up half your pan.
Leave this cooking for a minute or whatever. It should be solid enough and cooked enough, then, that you can take your spatula and flip over the entire thing to cook the other side.
The end result should be that you have a fully cooked, folded in half omelette.
Afterwards, you can of course re-separate your omelette, or just have it folded over. But folding it makes it much easier to flip over as opposed to trying to flip it while it's all spread out.
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