How to Flip an Omelets

Video Transcript

"Welcome back, I'm Chef Donno, and on behalf of Expert Village, welcome to my kitchen. We're making Spanish omelettes today. We've already cut our produce, browned off the meat. Now, it's time to make omelettes. What I usually use is an eight-inch pan. Nowadays, you can get these pans already covered with the Teflon or what-have-you so they're non-stick. Back in the old days, you used to have the stainless pans like so, and you'd have to season it with salt, heat it up, and rub it out so it would be non-stick. Nowadays, it's very easy with your Teflon pans. I use the eight-inch. For larger omelettes and different variations, I'll use a larger pan. So before we get to actually cooking the omelette, you're probably thinking, "Well, I'd like to do that, but I don't know how to flip the omelette." I'll show you how to do that. I've trained literally hundreds of cooks how to make omelettes, and they feel silly doing this, but this is how it's done. Piece of bread in your pan, okay? Now, this pan is curved up, so when you flip with the wrist, everything comes back at you. So what you do for one minute is flip the bread half a revolution just like so. You're using your wrist, you're going down, up. It's like you're scooping, okay? Just like this. Circular motion like so. Do it for one minute, really. Time yourself, get comfortable with it. The most important thing when you're making the omelette, when you're flipping the omelette, don't hesitate, don't stop. You might -- you'll end up with half the eggs on the stove, half in the pan. Don't hesitate, be comfortable with this action. When you have the eggs in the pan, it's no different. Just be comfortable with the motion. And when you're saut?ing anything for that fact, saut?ing vegetables or whatever, it's the same motion. Circular motion, digging, scooping, okay? Don't go nuts and see how many flips you can do. You'll have an omelette on the floor and your pets will be glad you did that, okay? So flip, flip, flip. Get used to the motion. The pan is designed for the food to do this, okay? Just like so. Now that you have your flipping technique down, let's make a real omelette."