What is the term for 'sunny side up' omelette?
I have a technique when cooking omlettes where you only cook them on one side, and gather up the edges - but let the cheese accumulate in the soft centre.
Friends have suggested several names for this:
scramelette
sunny side up omelette
soft-centred omelette
The thought occurs that there must be a canonical name - which I'd like to know so I can order it at a restaurant.
My question is: What is the term for 'sunny side up' omelette?
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As others already said, What you described is the traditional way to make an omelette, whereas the idea of flipping an omelette to cook it fully is truly an American concept.
Let's call a flipped omelette an American omelette while yours we can just call omelette.
i image searched Sunnyside up omelette and i see a bunch of Sunnyside up eggs all grilled simultaneously so they bond together into some kind of Frankensteinish Siamese siblings.
This to me is a very unappealing and dumb concept and it troubles me that they have appended the word omelette to this bad science concoction.
It would have been better if Sunnyside up omelette refered to what You described above, however in all fairness there's no "sun" effect in an omelette.
Oh i got an idea
Cloudy side up!
I believe that is called a classic french omelette.
"Sunnyside" comes from frying unbroken eggs, where the yolk resembles the sun, and by not flipping the egg over makes it "Sunnyside up".
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