2/3/2004: Record-setting omelette

Undertoad · 02-03-2004, 03:09 PM

France - the one thing she should always be known for is gastronomy, and so let's enjoy this giant truffle omelette. Created to celebrate the truffle, which is a sort of fungus - known as the "black diamond", and extremely rare due to last summer's heat.

This was a record-breaking omelette, consisting of 3.5 kilos of truffles and more than 3,200 eggs. The culinary feat required a frying pan of some 3.7 metres in diameter. It was cut into 1,000 pieces and sold.

Mmmm omelette

Leah · 02-03-2004, 04:36 PM

Those crazy French.

jinx · 02-03-2004, 04:37 PM

I bet it sucked.

Leah · 02-03-2004, 04:39 PM

It probably did suck. I like my omelettes with ham, cheese, onion and tomatos on it. Yummmmmm

Beletseri · 02-03-2004, 04:46 PM

Looks like it will turn in to scrambled eggs to me. How are they going to flip it in half with cheese inside?

Elspode · 02-03-2004, 05:27 PM

Quiet, you American pig-dogs with your silly running about knees-bent behavior! What do you know about French cuisine!? You invented les McDonalds and those so-called french fries! You vould not know a fine omlette if you awaken with one on your ugly faces! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries! PFFFFTTTT!!!!

Now, do not make any more unwanted comments about our cooking, or I shall taunt you a second time!

jinx · 02-03-2004, 05:30 PM

Uhhh.... is there someone else up there we could talk to...?

glatt · 02-03-2004, 05:35 PM

That's no omlette. That's scrambled eggs with stuff mixed in.

Who says you need an original idea to post?

Pi · 02-03-2004, 05:48 PM

Sorry, even if I'm no frenchman, I must protest against putting cheese in a truffle omelette. When I'm at home I love having a "Bauerentriwel" (some luxemburgish word like farmer's omelette) with a lot of potatoes, cheese, bacon and so on. But a truffle omlette is like pouring water in a good wine...

xoxoxoBruce · 02-03-2004, 08:28 PM

Why add anything to my dead chicken babies and fungus?

purecougar · 02-03-2004, 11:55 PM

That's 7.7 pounds of truffle. Assuming they used white truffle, which according to one web site is $1,000 to $2,200 USD a pound, that is $7,700 to $16,940 for the fungus alone. That's more than my first car!!

gin

wolf · 02-04-2004, 01:28 AM

French and American Omelettes are different. The French incorporate all the ingredients into a whipped fluffy batch of eggs that are only nearly allowed to set. It's a more labor intensive version of scrambling. The American omelette is the one that sets on the outside and has the fillings rolled into the middle. The French version usually has more eggs than stuffings.

(at least this is what I recall from watching Jaques Pepin ... my mom's the real Food TV/PBS cooking show freak.)

I make a mean damn omelette.

dar512 · 02-04-2004, 11:11 AM

I ordered a fair number of omelettes in Paris a year ago, and mostly got scrambled eggs. Might have been that I was obviously American (my French sucks rocks). So maybe they were giving me what they thought I wanted. I prefer a real French omelette when I can get it.

Kitsune · 02-04-2004, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Why add anything to my dead chicken babies and fungus?

"That's not an omlette! That's a chicken-abortion!"

Add some of the whale in the other post and that thing might not be so bad.

02-03-2004, 03:09 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	2/3/2004: Record-setting omelette France - the one thing she should always be known for is gastronomy, and so let's enjoy this giant truffle omelette. Created to celebrate the truffle, which is a sort of fungus - known as the "black diamond", and extremely rare due to last summer's heat. This was a record-breaking omelette, consisting of 3.5 kilos of truffles and more than 3,200 eggs. The culinary feat required a frying pan of some 3.7 metres in diameter. It was cut into 1,000 pieces and sold. Mmmm omelette

02-03-2004, 04:37 PM	#3
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	I bet it sucked. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

02-03-2004, 05:27 PM	#6
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Quiet, you American pig-dogs with your silly running about knees-bent behavior! What do you know about French cuisine!? You invented les McDonalds and those so-called french fries! You vould not know a fine omlette if you awaken with one on your ugly faces! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries! PFFFFTTTT!!!! Now, do not make any more unwanted comments about our cooking, or I shall taunt you a second time! __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-03-2004, 05:30 PM	#7
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Uhhh.... is there someone else up there we could talk to...? __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good. Last edited by jinx; 02-03-2004 at 05:46 PM.

02-03-2004, 08:28 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Why add anything to my dead chicken babies and fungus? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-03-2004, 04:36 PM	#2
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	Those crazy French.

02-03-2004, 04:39 PM	#4
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	It probably did suck. I like my omelettes with ham, cheese, onion and tomatos on it. Yummmmmm

02-03-2004, 04:46 PM	#5
Beletseri Yeah sez you Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 206	Looks like it will turn in to scrambled eggs to me. How are they going to flip it in half with cheese inside?

02-03-2004, 05:35 PM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's no omlette. That's scrambled eggs with stuff mixed in. Who says you need an original idea to post?

02-03-2004, 05:48 PM	#9
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	Sorry, even if I'm no frenchman, I must protest against putting cheese in a truffle omelette. When I'm at home I love having a "Bauerentriwel" (some luxemburgish word like farmer's omelette) with a lot of potatoes, cheese, bacon and so on. But a truffle omlette is like pouring water in a good wine...

02-03-2004, 11:55 PM	#11
purecougar Kinda New Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1	That's 7.7 pounds of truffle. Assuming they used white truffle, which according to one web site is $1,000 to $2,200 USD a pound, that is $7,700 to $16,940 for the fungus alone. That's more than my first car!! gin

02-04-2004, 01:28 AM	#12
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	French and American Omelettes are different. The French incorporate all the ingredients into a whipped fluffy batch of eggs that are only nearly allowed to set. It's a more labor intensive version of scrambling. The American omelette is the one that sets on the outside and has the fillings rolled into the middle. The French version usually has more eggs than stuffings. (at least this is what I recall from watching Jaques Pepin ... my mom's the real Food TV/PBS cooking show freak.) I make a mean damn omelette. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-04-2004, 11:11 AM	#13
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	I ordered a fair number of omelettes in Paris a year ago, and mostly got scrambled eggs. Might have been that I was obviously American (my French sucks rocks). So maybe they were giving me what they thought I wanted. I prefer a real French omelette when I can get it.

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