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How to take scrambled eggs from ordinary to extraordinary

BY Jamie Skorheim  on December 3, 2012 @ 11:39 am (Updated: 12:56 pm - 12/31/12 )

Seattle Kitchen hosts Tom Douglas and Thierry Rautureau are pros, but not every cook has all the spices and hard to pronounce ingredients they have access to.

Using only two ingredients, the Ordinary to Extraordinary challenge asks Tom and Thierry to transform an ordinary dish into something extraordinary that we all can manage. This week, Seattle Kitchen contributor Katie O asked Tom and Thierry to give scrambled eggs an extraordinary turn.

Thierry went first. He says he'd add caramelized onions and collard greens to his scrambled eggs.

"I'm going to caramelize some onions and I'm going to braise some collard greens."

Thierry says he'd serve the collard greens on the side, but the the caramelized onions would go into the scrambled eggs.

Tom agrees Thierry's dish sounds pretty darn good.

"I would take his, what he just did, and add some Tabasco sauce and I'm fine with that," says Tom.

But the rules of competition say only two ingredients can be used. Tom's piggy-back recipe uses three in addition to the scrambled eggs, so he had to submit a different idea. Even his second was met with controversy.

"I would turn it into an omelette and do a goat cheese and chive omelette," says Tom.

"You can't change scrambled eggs into an omelette Mr. Douglas," Thierry objects.

"Yes you can. An omelette is essentially scrambled eggs you're just stirring," says Tom. "It's just shaped scrambled eggs. That's all it is. It's the same exact thing but you let them set into a pan and you simply fold over the egg onto the ingredients."

Tom says the goal of the challenge is to turn ordinary to extraordinary, and he thinks a move from scrambled eggs to omelette would achieve that.

"Turn it into an omelette and it's even better."

Thierry is unsure of whether changing the style of egg dish is really fair.

"Scrambled eggs are not foldable," Thierry says. "That's not scrambled egg."

Jamie Skorheim, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Whether it's floating on Green Lake, eating shrimp tacos at Agua Verde, or taking weekend drives out to the Cascades, she loves to enjoy the Pacific Northwest lifestyle as much as humanly possible.
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  • Country_Dog wrote...
    You people actually get paid to do this?
    December 30, 2012 7:30 am
    Do you feel lucky for having such an easy job?
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  • snikkers wrote...
    Country Dog
    December 30, 2012 7:54 am
    Your comment is rather naive. I used to think my boss didn't do anything until I got his job and learned what it really takes. One could look at a hotel maid and say "all you really do is make beds", anyone can do it. Additionally my wife would say to me "all I ever see you do is drive around town" to which I wouuld reply "do you expect to see while crawling under a house pulling wire?". This is a perfect application of the "walk in another's moccasin" rule.
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  • Country_Dog wrote...
    Hey Snikkerdoodle the Poodle
    December 31, 2012 6:08 am
    I don't think maids have an easy job. What I think is an easy job is that you don't actually have to produce anything; you just criticize what other people do.
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  • snikkers wrote...
    Dog
    December 31, 2012 7:59 am
    Sorry that you misread my post. I don't think maids do either. What I said is that "one could...." or in other words "a person could...." not that you do. It was an example. Sorry that my post was hard to follow.
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  • rational wrote...
    Carmalized onion...
    December 30, 2012 8:10 am
    And did he use butter or oil to carmalize the onions? Sounds like a hidden 3rd ingredient.
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  • Snout wrote...
    I think butter is considered part of the scrambled eggs.
    December 30, 2012 9:32 am
    the simpler the scrambled eggs are the better. All you need is some fresh black pepper and boom, you have an awesome dish. The key is not to screw up the eggs as many people including many restaurants do.
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  • rational wrote...
    Snout
    December 30, 2012 4:21 pm
    You may be correct...perhaps they allow butter for free to both carmelize the onions and scramble the eggs in. I'd swap out the collard greens and substitute roasted potatoes. If spices aren't counting (salt, pepper for example) then toss some rosemary on the potatoes as well.
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  • CH wrote...
    scrambled eggs that what the middle class will be eating . . . .
    December 30, 2012 12:30 pm
    thanks House Republicans. Hope you choke on your tube steaks.
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    I have to believe...
    December 30, 2012 1:54 pm
    ...that CH and HaHa are one in the same. Both can turn anything.... and I mean anything into a political slug-fest.

    For proof, read the above posted comment. ^^^^^

    Scrambled eggs? Come on CH...

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  • rational wrote...
    CH
    December 30, 2012 4:13 pm
    Amazing how some trolls can try to turn even a discussion on scrambled eggs into a political debate and threw in a lewd reference to boot. Grow up.
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  • FBerschauer wrote...
    Scrambled eggs
    December 30, 2012 4:19 pm
    There's one more thing to add in order to have the best scrambled eggs possible. A couple drops of white truffle oil! I use it in eggs on popcorn and cream soups. Oh and potatoes among other things. Makes ordinary things gourmet but be careful....a little bit goes a long way!!! The best I've found is at a little shop called Olympia olive oil. Their prices are the best for it too.
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  • CH wrote...
    threw in a lewd reference? . . . .
    December 30, 2012 5:11 pm
    what are you talking about? Tell me you never ate a dog. CH and Boo Hoo are one in the same. Don't tell her that!(Boo Hoo that is).
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  • hpitantso wrote...
    Best scrambled eggs have to have
    December 30, 2012 5:47 pm
    Bacon bits
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Best scrambled eggs?
    December 30, 2012 8:16 pm
    Gotta put lots of ketchup on em! Little cheese and some saute'd onions salt and pepper.

    Try beating that!

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  • Dan1 wrote...
    CH is
    December 30, 2012 8:19 pm
    Living in a van down by the river.
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