Techniques
Cooking Method
Tip
Beginner
1 min

Use a butter-and-oil mix for cooking an omelette

Combine butter with a little oil as the cooking fat instead of using butter alone.

The video follows a French cookbook instruction to use “butter with some oil” as a mix for the pan.

The short version

  • Use a mix of butter and oil per the book.

Why it works

Oil can raise the effective smoke point and help prevent butter from burning while still providing butter flavor.

Put it to use

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