Davina making omelettes on Lorraine...really??!!

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Just seen Davina demonstrating how to make 2 omelettes on Lorraine...she pointed out prior to this to the viewer that she is 'half french', AIBU thinking that this doesn't mean that she is a chef, and can't believe that she is paid on national telly to crack 3 eggs, mix them with herbs in a pan and pontificate how healthy the meal is and her kids love it??
In the next section she will no doubt show us how to make a cup of tea, FFS!

Ahh yes, Lorraine, that well-known hard-hitting gritty journalism show that tackles the world news and grills politicians around the world in a Paxman-esque style.

I just seen it, totally shit tv.

Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't have the first clue about how to make even very basic food.

I didn't see this on tv, but it strikes me as being more useful to the average viewer than a fancy more complicated recipe with more ingredients and a longer cooking time.

Perhaps it'll inspire a few people who 'can't cook' to make what is a basic and fairly healthy dish.

I don't know, any time I've mentioned an omelette as a cheap low effort no skill meal, there's always been at least one poster who's commented that not everyone knows how to make an omelette and that's why some people have to live on nasty processed food or expensive takeaways instead.

I love my omlette maker.

@SoleBizzz is she called davina?

Davina's half French?

Really?

How come she's never mentioned that before?

You can buy ready-made omelettes in the frozen section, there's obviously a market for it.

To be fair, French kids on average are taught a lot more about home cooking and baking than your average Brit child. I am sure yours can come up with a fine dining 5 course diner, but on average, Davina has a point.

Did she suck the eggs first?

I have absolutely no idea how to make an omelette.

I wish I would have seen it.

In fact I can't make anything.

My gravy is granuals.

My rice is soggy and stodgy.

Everythings out of a tin.

My food is rank. Can't even make porrage.

I can't even cut up fruit. I got about 5 small chunks out of a pineapple yesterday

shower 3 eggs in a bowl, whisk with a dash of milk, add a pinch of mixed herbs. Warm frying pan with a tiny bit of oil, add eggs, don't stir or mix, just before it goes solid on top add some cheese.

Variations, add mushrooms to the mixing bowl, or chopped ham, cooked bacon.
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Wait, is an omelette not the thing where you whisk up some eggs (number depending on how hungry you are and how big your pan is) and stick them in a frying pan until it looks like an omelette? Add some ham/cheese/tomato or whatever else you fancy?

What is there to know? It's not like it matters if you don't do it exactly how others do it. If you like it runny, do it runny, if you don't leave it a bit longer. Swishing it around a bit helps, but it's not vital.

I'll try an omelette now. Thanks Gilead!

shower 3 eggs in a bowl, whisk with a dash of milk, add a pinch of mixed herbs. Warm frying pan with a tiny bit of oil, add eggs, don't stir or mix, just before it goes solid on top add some cheese

Disagree here. Wait until it starts to solidify and then draw the cooked egg to the middle, letting the runny egg take its place. Keep doing this until doing it more would ruin the shape. I also pop it under the grill to properly cook the top of the egg, melt the cheese and help it puff up.

Milk or no milk
Swish it around or not
Runny or solid
herbs or no herbs
Butter or oil
filling (which filling?) or no filling
Grill or not

None of this matters one jot. The only thing that matters is that you whisk up some eggs and cook them in a frying pan (or one of those microwave omelette makers if you only have a microwave).

Lets not pretend this type of cooking is in any way complicated or difficult because it really isn't. Making an omelette would be an extremely basic, first lesson of secondary school home economics level task. Not something where it is seen as a badge of honour for a NT adult to be unable to do FFS.

Did Davina explain the Golden Rule that you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs?

It might seem obvious to you OP but it isn't to everyone. When DC was in shared accommodation at uni she was making an omelette. One of her housemates stared in horror and asked what she was cooking. DC told her and the housemate said in a tone of revulsion 'And does your mum know you eat stuff like that?'

The same flatmate arrived one term with an enormous sack of potatoes. Every day for her dinner she would boil a pan of them for her dinner and eat them with gravy made from gravy granules - nothing else. No veg or protein, just boiled potatoes and gravy. She had different flavours of granules for variety and was apparently very proud of her economical diet.

@TossDaily she has. Her mother is french but she left the family and returned to France when her parents split. Davina was raised by her grandparents from an early age.

so although she is half french, and has mentioned it before, given that she wasn't actually raised by any french family it's not like she'll have picked up the french culinary skills from watching her mother in the kitchen...

Did she suck the eggs first?

She had different flavours of granules for variety and was apparently very proud of her economical diet.

I expect many many students survive on similar. In fact that's an improvement on cheap instant noodles

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