Omelet at hotel is better than at home
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There is a lot to be said about even deeply mediocre food straight out of bed.
But if hotel omelettes are better than yours… Y’all need more Kenji in your life.
Clearly you’ve never been to hotel that has an egg chef at the buffet. Eggs cooked to perfection on demand.
That said, everyone needs more Kenji in their life!
Again, if you can’t beat someone who has been dealing with a couple dozen people AND their kids all rushing the counter to watch someone operate a 3 pan pipeline… it doesn’t take much effort. Nonstick pans are the cheat mode of eggs but there is a lot to be said about enough butter that even a Frenchman will give you the side eye.
I’ve definitely dined at some in-hotel restaraunts that were damned amazing. But a general rule of thumb is that if you can see the chef cooking (and it isn’t a hole in the wall where the floors are sticky), you are getting chain restaurant food. Part of that is because they fundamentally can’t let pans get hot enough (people get pissy when they see an open pan) so everything is non-stick and cooking spray and just a bit oily tasting. Part of it is also that they can’t use the “secret ingredients” like MSG or fish sauce or whatever because, at best, it leads to questions from the lookiloos and, at worst, it leads to aggressive racism. Same with the eggs. You either have everything pre-beaten (which often means it was powdered to begin with…) or you just get a quick mix because, again, you can’t have empty pans when there is a queue. Same with dicing onions and peppers versus pre-dicing (again, often frozen) and tossing with a preservative so they won’t oxidize. And while I’ve noticed a shift over the past decade or so (I weirdly credit Brooklyn 99), even something like a salt cellar is hit or miss because most people don’t realize that salt is inherently anti-microbial so it is fine to finger it and that you can’t season from a shaker.
Don’t get me wrong. I am right there with the crowd to get some avocado toast in an Admiral’s Club. That shit is good. But you are also always fundamentally looking at something that isn’t that hard to beat.
And there is a lot to be said about making your own omelettes… or making omelettes for the person who let you do stuff to them last night.
You make some excellent points and I agree with everything you say. I would just like to point out the convenience factor of having someone cook the eggs for you.
At home, I cook eggs for breakfast. Why? Because I’m the best at it. Why? Because I’m always the one who does it. Kind of a vicious cycle…
It’s nice when someone else does it for me, even if I could do a slightly better job myself. Simply not having to do it makes it more enjoyable
What’s not to love about print-on-demand pancakes?
These things are absolutely not a replacement for waffle machines. They barely cook the pancake all the way and the batter often has a rubbery texture worse than any store-bought mix. Also you can easily make better pancakes at home.
Meanwhile, hotel waffles are crunchy on the outside with a soft interior and malty flavor thanks to the big heavy specialized waffle makers. They taste much more fresh, and most importantly you can’t make them at home without the expensive specialized equipment. Home waffle makers just don’t have the same mass of heated metal to get the same results.
I actively avoid Holiday Inn Express for business travel because of these things. I prefer the breakfast at many Quality Inns which are often 1/3 the price. Hampton Inn does it right with waffles and two flavors of batter nationwide.
Home waffle makers just don’t have the same mass of heated metal to get the same results.
There is a prosumer model waffle maker that’s not bad.
https://www.cuisinart.com/double-flip-belgian-waffle-maker/WAF-F40NAS.html
It’s $150, which is not cheap. It’s huge, it’s heavy, and good luck on finding a place to store it but you can get really close to the better hotel gear with it
Seriously though, I’m here for vacation. Why you expecting me up so early!? There needs to be a hotel where the free breakfast lasts until noon. Even McDonalds is 11!
As a not-morning person who loves breakfast food, I’m with you 110%
I think they want you out of the room early, so they can get it ready for the next guest. I don’t like it either, but I can see the logic.
yeah but if i stay there for a week why do I have to get up early every day?
They can simply say “please leave your room at ?? AM on the day of your departure” and I’ll do it.
Because you are the rare exception - a person who is competent.
that probably went i, a not morning person, have anyways felt like hotels want to push me out of bed.
as a lifelong second-third shifter i would pay 3 times as much for ANY HOTEL that can accommodate me wanting to sleep during the day. moving across the country and not wrecking my work sleep schedule is impossible exclusively because all hotels want me to check in 4 hours past my bedtime. so either I’m buying an extra day off noisy bad sleep, or I’m just not sleeping for a day.
as much as they suck for other reasons and have enshittified beyond usability; this was what air b&b was great for. hotels were and now are again an industry that’s very stuck in its ways and NEEDS disrupting. they need to to live “normally” for them to work.
Even McDonalds is 11!
used to be all day
So much has been lost…
I’m a boiled egg person. I love hotel breakfasts, but not for the eggs. terrible boiled eggs, mediocre scramble, always.
But a buffet with croissants and bacon and various choices? count me in
No way in hell you’re getting me up for breakfast at 7AM on holiday
Obligatory Key & Peele - Continental Breakfast.
I use “I’ll have what I’m having!” all the time
Ah, so Sam Reich, but before him!
I always assumed this is because of jet lag making me hungry and sleepy at weird hours because I’m so rarely in a hotel unless I’m in a different time zone. Does this happen to people when they are in a nearby hotel, too?
Yes, even when I fly to +5 timezone, I’ll be there for breakfast!
Me at hotel breakfast: ugh everything sucks, half a kilo of bacon it is!
So nobody cares that this dude sleeps at home without any pillow case? no duvet cover? i bet he’s also raw dogging his mattress without any sheets. are you out of your mind? whats wrong with you?
Do I care how a random person sleeps in their own house?
No, no I don’t.
Dear God it’s Baloney Bob. Quick someone tell Zach Hazard, also check the closet there’s a truck bumper in there.
This is a repost of mine! You need to pay me 10000000000000$
I only have three
Only 9,999,999,999,997 to go!
Lmao, and it’s not even something special, yet our body will just say “whelp time to breakfast”.
Maybe in the US it’s not something special
In Malaysia, unless you went for fancy 5stars hotel, it’s nothing special as well, but we still wake up early for the breakfast.
Estonian, can confirm that no budget or midrange hotels here have been special either. Same for the singular hotel I’ve visited in Finland and the 3 hotels I’ve visited in the US.
It’s been broadly the same everywhere, minor differences in selection, but similar “headliners”
Brother you have not been to the Scandic then in Finland. That hotel breakfast is soo frigging good. Its my favorite hotel chain in Scandinavia.
I haven’t, though I’ve had a kebab at the small spot near (under?) the Scandic Ariadne in Stockholm and that was great too.
I’ll be sure to book one of their hotels next time I’m in Scandinavia
I love that water with the faint orange tint. Worth the price of the room all by itself.
Seriously though, the waffle iron is pretty cool when it isn’t out of order.
This lasts until you travel for work a few times per month and then that shit starts to make you gag.
Most hotels I’ve been to have milk and oat meal too, basically what I’d get an average day. Nah I’ve been fine with hotel breakfast even travelling for work, pretty much the same shit I eat at home and then some occasional candy like food like waffles and pancakes.
Oh man. I was staying in a hotel for PAX-South. We loved the breakfast but by 3rd day it was like…ugh, wtf is this shit?!
Totally get this for sure.
9 am on a workday, 7 am on a day off
What is he sleeping on? Looks metal.
