How does Waffle House make their omlets so fluffy?!


Question: ALmost every one of the answers above mine is on the right track, but misses the point.

Waffle House, like just about every other restaurant which sells eggs by volume, adds A LITTLE BIT of baking powder to the whole eggs.

No one uses milk, half and half or any other dairy product or substitute.
This is not done for at least two reasons:
1] The additional cost of the milk or dairy product.
2] The additional time it takes to thoroughly incorporate [mix or blend] the products together.

A BIG contributing factor is the fact eggs are self-rising.

As far as what one of the other folks answered about salmonella and the eggs on a shelf: perish that thought. 95+% of the restaurants KNOW: THE FASTEST way to get fined and/or open the door for more citations or even be shut down is to have a big container of raw eggs in the open, warm kitchen air for an extended period of time.

The health inspectors walk around with those little digital instant-read thermometers AND HOPE AND PRAY restaurants will make their jobs much easier by doing inattentive things like that.

Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed taking the time to answer it!

VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name!


Answers: ALmost every one of the answers above mine is on the right track, but misses the point.

Waffle House, like just about every other restaurant which sells eggs by volume, adds A LITTLE BIT of baking powder to the whole eggs.

No one uses milk, half and half or any other dairy product or substitute.
This is not done for at least two reasons:
1] The additional cost of the milk or dairy product.
2] The additional time it takes to thoroughly incorporate [mix or blend] the products together.

A BIG contributing factor is the fact eggs are self-rising.

As far as what one of the other folks answered about salmonella and the eggs on a shelf: perish that thought. 95+% of the restaurants KNOW: THE FASTEST way to get fined and/or open the door for more citations or even be shut down is to have a big container of raw eggs in the open, warm kitchen air for an extended period of time.

The health inspectors walk around with those little digital instant-read thermometers AND HOPE AND PRAY restaurants will make their jobs much easier by doing inattentive things like that.

Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed taking the time to answer it!

VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name!

11-6-07 Hi pumpmar!

Thank you very, very much. I’m honored my answer was THE BEST!

When I received the notice, it REALLY helped to make my day!

Again, Thank You Very Much!

Very Truly Yours,
Ron Berue Report It


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  • most places use whole milk (just a touch) when they scramble the eggs,,, i use half and half though.. make it taste so much better to me... happy cooking

    Won't eat at the Waffle House. I never liked to see the uncooked eggs stored on top of the counter above the grill. They are stored at room temperature and I can almost hear the salmonella brewing.

    I would hope they used whole milk and use a blender to mix the egg ingrediants together (that is what I do)

    Most restaurants that do volume crack 144 egg, a dozen dozen at a time, then strain any shells, mix milk in with it and use a ladle into a commercial Teflon pan with butter substitute.
    Time of cooking is the way they get fluffy. they cook them so quickly the tiny bubbles caused by cooking them in 1 minute don't have the chance to go airborne and stay in the fluffy omelet!
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    yeast

    uh, maybe you should ask the people who make them!!! DUH!!! i mean come on, how in the world should we know! we don't work there!!!





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