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Just tried the recipe, and I am happy to report that this is the best omelette I have EVER eaten. Thanks for a good, simple, honest recipe. Delicious! Though, yes, I went a little lower on the butter than suggested.

de Gato...AMEN! Maybe a little truffle butter if you're particularly flush

I've been thinking again (yeah I know, that's dangerous) ... 2 tablespoons butter seems a whole heck of a lot for two eggs in a small skillet. Not sure if we're frying or deep-frying the omelet ... yeah, I think I'll stick to what I know. My son and I have done omelet buffets for up to 50 people and I think we do it up rather nicely, and without the pretentiousness.

Okay, I'm not clear on the concept. I've had omelets I've loved and omelets I've hated - the latter had distinctly runny, uncooked egg inside; I repeat, uncooked and runny and nasty and horrible. Tell me why this would ever be considered a good thing. The ones I've loved had egg that was just barely cooked through, but definitely cooked (not slippery and sticky and icky, not suitable for making paint but not for eating). Yet I have paid quite a bit for the awful ones, and practically nothing for the good ones. I may be the only person I know who has sent an omelet back to the kitchen to be replaced with a cooked dish, in spite of the server's eye-rolling and patient explanation that it's supposed to be coldish and sticky and drippy inside. Am I just a philistine?

I remember an episode of the Frugal Gourmet from when I was just a kid: probably my first cooking show memory.

Jeff Smith says, "If you don't want watery omelettes, add water to them."

I never understood the principal behind that, nor have I ever done a scientific test to ascertain is verity. But now, I will.

Perhaps the extra water helps evaporates faster than the bound moisture in the egg, helping it soufflé slightly more, leading to a lighter - and therefore dryer tasting - texture?

Yea, but Gordon talks funny and drives on the wrong side of the road ... @Olho de Gato, I do like mine with no liquid added as well, just neglected to mention it. This pic also seems rather out-of-focus. Of course now every time I use the word "focus", in my mind it sounds as it does in the one scene in Hellboy II ...