welcome friends it is 1:30 in the afternoon Toronto time on October 3rd
2019 and just a few short moments ago I got a notification that chefsteps
had uploaded a new video I like chefsteps videos I thought let's go
watch it and see what are they going to cook sous vide with an impossible
technique today and I say that with a lot of love because I know that what
they do tastes absolutely amazing has incredible texture and is wonderful but
it is for most home cooks impossible you're not gonna make that happen but
guess what they did a boiled omelet recipe my first thought was boil the omelette get
out what in the end it's it's not that strange because if you poach eggs the
way that eggs are supposed to be poached you poach them in barely simmering water
so this shouldn't be any different you're just scrambling the egg before
you put it in the boiled water so I watched the video a couple of times I
went to the website you can't actually get the recipe because it's behind a
paywall it's like 70 bucks and I wasn't
interested in paying 70 bucks so I rewatched the video a couple more times
I think I've got it so I've got three eggs in here I've whisked them together
I've put in a little bit of salt I've got a pot of water here that is just
about to come to the boil and over here I've got a jug with a fine mesh sieve
they use paper towel I don't have a paper towel in my kitchen so I have a
little piece of a really fine cheesecloth general idea is pour the
eggs in the boiling water put the lid on cook them through drain them add some
cheese in the middle fold it put it on a plate need it so let's see what happens
okay didn't say how much of a boil I've got a pretty good boil going here and so
in go the eggs
and you get that really nice stretch of deli lid goes on and the cook and I'm
sorry I don't have the really cool see-through glass pan that they have so
I'm gonna take the lid off so you can see what's going on doesn't say how long
to cook them I guess that's behind the paywall but
let's give this a try okay I'm gonna say that's done now they pour out most of
the water before they put it into the sieve I'm gonna take this back to the
sink and pour off most of the water just use the lid to hold it in great and now
it will flop this into the sieve so I imagine this drains for a couple of
minutes they put cheese in the center and it looked like they put in a
rolled-up piece of American processed cheese I don't I don't have American
processed cheese so I've got some shredded Wisconsin brick it's a it's a
really nice melty cheese so I'm gonna put some of that in the middle and then
they sort of pull on the paper and they roll it up now let's see if we can get
this off the plate without making a huge mess
they showed their omelette finished a couple different ways but one of the
ways was just simply salt and pepper in a strip along the top so let's try that
one okay let's let's cut in and see what happens okay so I probably should have
used yellow cheese because it would give a better contrast than white cheese
inside the white egg but it looks really fluffy let's uh let's see what it tastes
like interesting it's not quite an omelet
it's not quite an omelet it's not quite a scrambled egg it's not quite a poached
egg it's something completely different and yet I think it's pretty tasty the
texture is really kind of nice and there's no there's no water in the
middle the water drains out completely
yeah I could eat that I could definitely eat that and that's the kind of thing
that in a bigger pot of water if you had to do omelettes for I don't know five
six people all at once and you had a big enough sieve and you had a big enough
thing to dump it in you could crank that out very easily very quickly with not a
lot of mess for a large group of people on a Saturday or Sunday morning if you
were cooking for a crowd I think that's a great I think that's a great way to do
it I probably wouldn't do it for myself
though I'll still grab a frying pan and do it the way that I've always done it
but in certain situations I think this works and I do really like the texture
so I'm gonna give it a thumbs up go over to chefsteps and check out their video
it's beautiful the egg dancing in the clear glass pot
absolute artistry thanks for stopping by see you again soon
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