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Cheese Omeeet

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Cheese Omeeet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Beat the eggs with water, salt, pepper, and cayenne until well mixed.

  2. Add the grated cheese and mix all together.

Cook and serve

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

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan quickly and stir gently until just set but still soft.

  3. Fold the omelet over and turn it onto a hot dish.

  4. Sprinkle with additional grated cheese and serve immediately.

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. Parmesan cheese + peppertop 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. Butter + peppertop 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 the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding the cheese together.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory flavor and richness, and melts slightly into the eggs.
Butter
Coats the pan to prevent sticking and adds richness and flavor.

The step that matters

Pour the egg mixture into the pan quickly and stir gently until just set but still soft.. Eggs turn firm and rubbery when overcooked, because the proteins tighten and squeeze out moisture. Removing the omelet while it is still soft keeps it tender, since it keeps cooking briefly from residual heat.

“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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