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Parmesan Omelet

A quick omelet made with eggs, salt, pepper, Parmesan cheese, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,163 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Parmesan Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Beat the eggs with salt and pepper.

  2. Stir in the grated Parmesan cheese.

Cook the omelet

  1. Melt the butter in an omelet pan over medium heat.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan.

  3. Stir the omelet gently with a flat spoon while holding the pan handle.

  4. When the omelet begins to set, stop stirring and shake the pan for about a minute.

  5. Use the spoon to fold the omelet in half.

  6. Continue shaking the pan until the underside is golden.

Serve

  1. Slide the omelet onto a hot dish with the colored side up and serve.

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.

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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. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Pepper + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + parmesan cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a tender structure that forms the body of the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the underside brown in the pan.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory, salty flavor and browns slightly during cooking.

The step that matters

Stopping the stirring at the right moment. Once the egg begins to set, stirring breaks up the forming curds and makes the omelet ragged. Stopping and shaking the pan lets the bottom firm and brown evenly while the top stays soft.

“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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