to ask whether you can freeze an omelette?

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and either microwave from frozen or defrost and reheat?
I've eggs to use up but have other dinners here also that need to be eaten.

Thanks!

I wouldn't. It would be horrible and rubbery. Bake a cake?

I can't bake!

Quiche can be frozen

Good point KinkyAfro!

Eggs last for ages-are you sure they need to be used up?

Happy to talk you through baking a cake if you've got the rest of the stuff you need!

I used to make veggie egg fritters and freeze for finger food for dd. She never complained

Crack the eggs into individual bags and freeze them- or separatel eggs and whites and freeze them. Eggs freeze really well and defrost quickly- but not in the microwave!

Or make meringues they last forever, and have carbonates for dinner?

separate

I've frozen frittata successfully and that is basically just omelette by another name.

Egg mayo, use chopped boiled eggs on salads, pop one in a curry, eggs for breakfast, make some pancakes.

Or even do some yorkshire puddings and freeze those.

What's the date on the eggs? I find they're fine waaaaaay past the use by date. It's easy to tell if they aren't once you crack them open.

Ok, I'm such a twit. Bought them a week ago but the date printed on them is August 25th. Ignore me. :)

Thanks to the poster who offered to walk me through baking a cake. I may ask you some time in the future. I don't have any of the other ingredients though, flour etc. Plus I moved country a while ago so don't have any baking tins, mixers etc.

For future reference, you can freeze an omelette. A cafe I once worked in used to do it!

My DD makes a weeks worth of Omelette's and freezes them and micros direct from frozen.
I happily use eggs well past their stamped 'best before' date though 😬

My local supermarket actually sells frozen omelettes. Not in a packet or anything, just on trays in the freezer. You take as many as you want and put them in a bag. It also sells frozen hash browns, sausages and other stuff in the same way.

Now that we've got past having to use eggs up, I don't understand why anyone would freeze an omelette as they take about 2 minutes to cook from fresh in a pan and probably take about the same to defrost/warm up in a microwave, after you have cooked them in the first place.

@BarbaraofSevillle My DD leaves for hospital shifts sometimes at 4am , the last thing she needs is having to cook that early too 😊

But the effort of just cooking from fresh is so minimal that I can't see why you'd bother.

It's the having to use stuff up plus making lunches for DP to take to work with him.

I freeze omelette. It's my default way of using up eggs and half onions or peppers or ham.
I feel all smug about not throwing them away!

It's as much faff reheating a frozen as making fresh Babs you can make a batch out of expiring food so it does reduce waste and washing up but time wise it's the same.

DP works as a builder so needs a substantial lunch. He's currently working in Westminster where a sandwich costs £5. We're not made of money and a sandwich would just about fill a hole in his tooth.
So he gets a full cooked dinner to bring with him for his lunch. Hence the freezing.

OK - I see the thing about DP lunches - spanish omelette ? i.e. with potatoes & whilst not classic , any other stuff you have to use up - veg , bacon , etc.

I am pretty free and easy about sell by dates - with eggs I still do the putting them in water thing and if they sink they are OK and if they float they are not. Is that still OK or am I risking life & limb ?