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    Made Spanish Omelette with chorizo tonight. My partner doesn't like 'undercooked' eggs, so it's a tightrope walk, but I think I hit it - so squidgy, so soft.

    Here's how much oil was reclaimed (left is onion-cooked olive oil, right is potato oil which is 25% sunflower oil, because I'm cheap)

    Here's the main event (ever so slightly overcooked on one side, but all good)

    And here's a side profile of a slice - i *just* managed to get it cooked-through and not runny, but still really squidgy, so partner-compatible.

    Three pans, three bowls, an hour and a half of effort. Abuelas would be shaking their head at me, but damn, I think this is the best one I've ever made,

    For such a simple dish, it's a real fucker to get right.

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    • A fucker to get right, but the stuff dreams are made of when you do.
      That thing's gorgeous.      Continuity
    • I need a smaller, deeper pan for these.Nairn
    • My main learning here was mixing all the cooked ingredients into the egg and then letting it sit for 20 minutes before cooking.Nairn
    • Thanks, C! xNairn
    • Letting the onions and potatoes sit in the eggs is the way to go.
      Incidentally, I made the last one I posted here in stainless steel. It's absolutely possible.      Continuity
    • Looks right to me, a bit overcooked, but if your wife does'nt like undercooked eggs...OBBTKN
    • We do tortilla de patatas weekly for dinner, on thu or fri, so, I can tell you that you nailed it ;)OBBTKN
    • Looks perfect. The never last more than one sitting in our house :)mort_
    • @ob - do you use pure olive oil? I noticed last time I was in Spain that it's not much cheaper over there than it is here in the UKNairn
    • No, we use sunflower oil—or sometimes we fry the potatoes in sunflower oil and then finish the tortilla with olive oil.OBBTKN
    • Parece bien!Chimp
    • I thought your side profile was an undercooked rasher of bacon lolAkagiyama
    • I've made my stance before on overcooked eggs. Needs overcooked eggs? Send em seaworthy.garbage
    • (kidding of course, the missus likes her eggs.. too rubbery. Each their own.)garbage
    • My partner would break up with me if I served her overcooked eggs. She's a keeper.Continuity
    • flol, she isgarbage
    • The Cull Begins.palimpsest
    • que rico los chorizoscanoe
    • Cebolla!!!Miesfan
    • This is the one I made seven days later —smaller diameter steel pan, ended up gooey on the inside "nice, but a bit undercooked inside" she said. So, *thumbs Up*Nairn
    • https://imgz.org/ih7…Nairn
    • *swoon*Continuity
    • I think I'll be cooking a lot more of these - my main bottleneck's always been the cost of olive oil, and the fact it doesn't re-use as well as sunflower, etc.Nairn
    • Yeah, olive oil's never been cheap, but the last couple of months ... ugh. I mean, nearly €9 for 500 ml of supposedly cheap Greek stuff at Aldi. Yikes.Continuity
    • Had yet another last night - this time no chorizo, and even gooier inside. Fucking sublime. Partner just sliced and fried hers a bit more, so compromise.Nairn
    • Thanks, OB - I can't believe that I've been thinking that I had to use Olive oil all these years :\ Just need to finish the fucker off in the stuff!Nairn
    • Another takeaway - the fine-cut onion slices should start be not far from the volume of potatoes to cut. Less, but not much. then reduce to dark yellow.Nairn
    • -start, wtf.Nairn
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