Great video Perneto. Pepin, the master that he is, lays it out so well.
We all have our own ways of getting to the final result. Pepin's country version is damn close as you pointed out. The big difference for me is that I actually want the white strands and work the mixture 1/10 the amount that he does both in the bowl and in the pan.
As for your question about the browning, It's all in the heat and using a LOT more butter at first and then taper back once you get the hang of it. That's a biggie. Use 3x more than Pepin when you're starting out. Pans, I use only old thriftstore cast iron for my omelets if I have a choice and at home. Curve on the sides is nice but not a prerequisite. NEVER wash your omelet pan. If something gets burned, scrape it off and yes you can use some water, but then dry it and then oil the hell out of it. To get the pan truly non stick, just make a **** ton of omelets in it using good amounts of butter and you will be in to win. Every european country has good cast iron and the old ones are imo just great. Here in Sweden they more or less just give these heavy bastards away. I have a collection that are just a pleasure to work with. Makes me not miss the old american ones I had.
So Perneto, this weekend, make some omelets for dinner and keep it as simple as possible. Use a ton of butter and then come back here and let us know how it went. As you can see I love the omelet, not just the taste but the art of making one. It gives immediate feedback to your cooking form at any given point in your development. No other dish does it as well and so quickly.
Cheers!
I finally got my carbon pan properly seasoned! I stripped off the previous layer of seasoning, did a few rounds of stove-top seasoning following a mix of these two videos:
[video=youtube;xoIO8YOpyN4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoIO8YOpyN4[/video]
[video=youtube;Ojp8rkBp-Rc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojp8rkBp-Rc[/video]
The main thing I changed this time was to take the pan off the heat as soon as the oil stopped smoking, or even a bit earlier. I think in my previous attempts I was leaving it on too long, and the seasoning was actually burning off.
Then, 2nd breakthrough after seeing this video:
[video=youtube;XKW4uogE8ZI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKW4uogE8ZI[/video]
Crepes! I actually have a carbon crepe pan that took its seasoning just fine from the start. I now understand it's because my crepe-making habit of oiling the pan with a paper towel in between each crepe is actually perfect for seasoning! So I made some crepes in the freshly seasoned pan.
And then the moment of truth: omelet... I made two: first a browned, country-style one, using something like 30g of butter - I heard you
No sticking whatsoever.
And another the next day, with a little less butter (still at least 15g), which I tried to do in the classic style (2nd one in the Pepin video), but my pan was too hot so it still had large curds. Still no sticking
Hopefully next time I can reproduce what I did before with a non-stick pan.