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Lobster Omelet

A savory omelette made with lobster meat, eggs, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Lobster Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the lobster and remove the meat from the shell.

  2. Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

Cook the omelette

  1. Pour the eggs into the skillet and cook until they begin to set.

  2. Add the lobster meat to one half of the omelet.

  3. Fold the omelet over and cook until fully set.

  4. Serve hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Lobster + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,247 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Lobster + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a delicate structure that holds the filling and forms the omelette body.
Lobster
Adds tender, sweet protein as the main filling inside the folded omelette.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Cook the eggs until they just begin to set. Egg proteins set with heat, so cooking too long or on high heat makes the omelette tough and dry. Stopping while the surface is still slightly moist lets the residual heat finish the set and keeps it tender when folded.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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