For both efficiency and taste/preference – scrambled.
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If I’m adding nothing? Then I guess scrambled eggs. But they seem like a similar amount of work, other than I’m not tossing the scrambled eggs in the air to cook the other side.
I like scrambled eggs to omelette.
You probably want "I prefer scrambled eggs to omelette".
Scrambled eggs if I'm making it. Slightly less effort. If someone else is, I guess maybe omelette. Not really a strong preference.
Scrambled Eggs:
Great video, thanks! I learned some stuff about cooking scrambled eggs.
I prefer omelette but if I'm preparing it it will look like scrambled eggs.
Scrambled eggs.
I usually like to put things in my scrambled eggs, though.
Eggs over medium (lightly fried on both sides, white fully set, yolk very runny once punctured). Runny eggs are great by themselves or with other breakfast items, particularly toast or hash browns to soak up the sauce.
That's over easy, medium is when the yolk starts to set but not fully. My fave is over medium.
Between scrambled and omelette I'm going scrambled.
In my experience “over easy” generally still has a bit of runny white, and that’s just gross. It’s difficult to get the white fully set and still keep the yolk runny, but I always err on the side of a disappointingly set yolk.
I prefer my eggs scrambled with tossed salad.
Y'all are buncha jerks :(
I think scrambled eggs are winning slightly!
I love scrambled eggs, I use butter instead of oil and I use Vegeta instead of salt. At least to me Vegeta gives kinda sweet taste, not too sweet it is tasty.
My omelets are made with garlic, sausage, and pepper jack (and salt, pepper, and cumin). And they're awesome.
My scrambled eggs are made with salt, pepper, and butter. They're awesome, too, but it's a completely different egg dish.
Omelette or sunny side up as they say (in Dutch we call it “horses-eye”)
You get your dipping sauce for the croque monsieur you inevitably made to go along with it.
And the outer edges crisp up far better to a nice and crispy brown if you use the right butter/temperature.
Scrambled is fine too if you’re making a quiche sort of situation.
have you considered a happy medium: french omelette?
Soft scrambled eggs for sure, if it's just beaten eggs, salt and pepper.
Fried eggs over very easy #1
Soft scrambled eggs #2
Omlette is lovely IF it is filled, cheese, spinach, onion. If just eggs, no.
They can both be great, I don't think I can pick a favorite.
Omelette fo sho. I like a little extra with my eggs.
Usually I attempt an omelette, fail to flip it, and end up with scrambled eggs anyway
Me too, and I went my whole life that way, but the solution is easy, and worked every time so far
- Nonstick pan (everything else is use cast iron)
- American omelette, not French. Fold in half, not thirds
- Don’t even try to fold it while cooking
- Tilt the pan to slide it on the plate, but use that motion to fold the omelette in half
Fried or fertilized?
Omelette, unfolded, served on a slice of bread with some proper butter.
I change up day to day. Today was over easy. The other day was scrambled. Before that was an omelette.
If I'm forced to pick, just eggs, it would be scrambled. But omelettes allow lots of things to be added, so they win for that category.
If I'm not going to add anything to it, I usually do scrambled.
But if I want cheese and othet stuff, I make an omelette.
If I am feeling brave enough I will do over easy to dip toast into; but I end up breaking the yolk more than half the time so it kinda kills what I wanted them for. 😮💨
I'm bad at making scrambled eggs how I like but I'm better at omelets.
I've never made an omelette that didn't have more ingredients in it than that. (At least green onions, but frequently ham and cheese, bell peppers, spinach, etc etc.)
So I guess I'd go scrambled. But if I'm just using salt with the eggs then probably sunny-side up so I can dip toast in the runny yolk.
I hate scrambled eggs, I love a good omelette. I also don't like a bad omelette.