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Show & Tell: Boil-A-bag Omelets!

May. 23, 2008 • 4:27 PM

Posted in FOOD Recipes

UPDATED: With a SOLUTION!!!!

Hello! It's Friday and time for Show & Tell again!

This time I wanted to share my new way of cooking omelets! Boil-A-Bag Omelets! This method is great for larger families! No one has to wait for their omelet and everyone can eat together! Plus, they are more fun to make this way, as everyone gets involved!

Gather all your ingredients: Eggs (you can also use Egg Beaters to make these! They are just as good!), omelet favorites like green pepper, tomatoes, mushroom, ham, cheese, etc. Quart size freezer zip-lock bags, permanent marker

Give everyone a Ziploc Zip'n Steam (quart sized).

Regular Ziploc bags do work but may be harmful- especially if melted. The regular ziplocks are not made to sustain high levels of heat. These Zip'nSteam bags are able to within higher levels of heat!

Have each person write their name in a permanent marker at the top of the bag.

Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) and scramble by zipping the bag securely close and shaking or squeezing to mix the eggs. For younger children, you may want to scamble the eggs in a small bowl and pour into their bags. They can still squeeze for fun but the work is already done. Note: Do not put more than two eggs in one bag. If a large eating prtion is needed, make up another bag of 2 eggs for that person!

Each person then can add the omelet ingredients of their choosing. Re-close the bag making sure to get the air out.

Place the bags into a large pot of boiling water for about 13 minutes.

Make sure the plastic does not hang over the edge, as it will melt!

Once cooked, simply unzip the bags and let the omelet slide out onto a plate. The omelet will roll out easily!

Omeletes are now SIMPLY delicious!

Family Fun and delicious food rolled into one!

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Update!: It was brought to my attention from my friend Tamara at Traininghearts that boiling Ziploc bags may not be healthy. I did some researching and Ziploc doesn't recomend it. However if you heat things up in the microwave in thin plastic containers, the same thing can happen.

Here is something I found from a discussion on this. He explains it well, I thought!

"I noticed everyone wondering about the safety of heating plastic bags. I'm a polymer chemist so I thought that I would add my two cents.

These bags are typically made of blown film polyethylene. Polyethylene is a non-polar polymer (fancy way of saying plastic) and as such cannot accept typical plasticizers, such as oils. Remember back in high school chemistry that water and oil don't mix? Same thing here.

Bottom line is that yes, there will be a small amount of off gassing of the lower molecular weight portions of the bag as it is heated but will likely not go into the food. I would be more worried about the bag making a mess.

There are many more things to be concerned about that pose a greater health risk, in my humble opinion. For instance, the film that forms in your car windshield is going to cause you a lot more "harm" than the few minutes you boil eggs in a bag. Also, the gases that emit from paint (even low VOC), carpeting.

If you get your nails done, your breathing in more stuff than you would be eating from the omlette."

Quote by: agilmer2002 on families.com

The solution is to use the Ziploc Zip'n Steam Bags! We used them and made these omelets exactly the same way but boiled them in a large stock pot so they are down inside the pot! The omelets were delicious. The bags are very easy to clean/wash out so I also plan to use them again for omelets (at least once) before throwing them away! We may also try microwaving the omelets sometime. We love them boil-a-bagged though!

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