To call it an omelette if it is not folded?

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Facebook argument with MIL... DH has a bit of a thing for omelettes, he even made a Christmas one with bubble and squeak and gravy in it!
Anyway, we don't fold our omelettes, we finish them under the grill and serve whole and flat, if you see what I mean. MIL claims it is only an omelette if folded and otherwise must be a frittata or something else 'foreign'. Others are now joining in on both sides, but was hoping for a greater sample size to settle the argument.

I would say it's a frittata if not folded over, or with anything more adventurous than bacon, tomato, onion or cheese.

There you go:

I say omelette if it has basic cheese, ham onions and tomatoes in it.
Fritatta to me would have potato in it and other more substantial ingredients.

Omelettes have only ever been flat in my life! They fold accidentally when I serve them up occasionally. I'very seen friends fold them on purpose. A fritatta would have different ingredients surely?

*I've seen

You'd never fold an Omlette Arnold Bennett

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/jun/04/how-to-cook-perfect-omelette-arnold-bennett-recipe

I only fold them to get other things on the plate.

And fritatta has potato in it. End of.

Apparently serving it folded is the French (foreign) way

I would say if you were British or English speaking you'd call it an Omelette. And this could cover anything you threw in it.

If you were Italian or an Italian was making the dish it would be a Frittata. Frittata just being the Italian term for frying eggs and stuff in a pan.

And if you were Spanish it would be tortilla.

www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-a-frittata-and-an-omelet-word-of-mouth-216451 I have just found this, which does give a descriptive definition. Not sure I agree though! But maybe we have been making frittatas all along...

Ineedmorelemonpledge - yes I had assumed it was really just different words for the same thing.
I do prefer them not folded though. So that must be the right way...

Omelettes were always flat and open when I was growing up. I didn't know that folding them was a thing until I left home. Yanbu. If it is made with whisked eggs and is stiff rather than stirable (which would obviously be scrambled eggs) then it is an omlette

Fritatta is flat and finished under the grill. Tortilla is baked in oven. Omelette is cooked in pan and folded.

Nope, you shouldn't cook a frittata in the oven.

The folding is irrelevant, it's an omelette however it's served....

I always fold my omelettes but that's because I put cheese on and fold and flip it. I never knew people didn't fold omelettes!

I like crispy cheese rather than melted cheese so would put cheese on top, flip over and fry. Folding over would mean it wasnt crispy cheese.

The other non negotiable rule is that it needs to be eaten with brown sauce,

It's an omelette either way - folded or flat. My well worn cook book has spoken.

I don't like flat, never had a folded one prior to trying it myself last year. Prefer the ingredients not to be mixed in with the eggs!!

Plus according to the next page tortillas are thicker and you'd eat them cold, as you would a frittata (which are like tortillas just not as thick)

Dowhatnow- never mind what we call it, I now want crispy cheese! Never thought of turning it over with the cheese on...

Of course its an omelette. Its what its made of that makes it such. You mil is an idiot. Tell her i said so

I think if it's folded, it's a French omelette.

I have always folded them, hence them having a filling, if flat its a topping. Plus if folded they look good on the plate for salad or chips (and now I am hungry)

I serve mine scrambled

My cook informs me that she has never in her life left an omelette unfolded.