Updated: I have gotten quite a few comments and questions about the toxins in plastic bags used when making omelettes in a bag. These freezer bags from Glad are BPA free.
Some of you may have heard about this very novel idea of making omelets in a freezer Ziploc bag. Have you? Well, I had not seen omelets in a bag done, but after seeing it done last weekend, I am sold on the idea. Omelette in a bag is perfect for camping or if have a group to feed breakfast to at home to make individualized requests for eggs, quickly.
Who needs a dirty pan when you can just throw baggies away!! Plus no waiting your turn for the pan. You can cook a whole bunch of omelets at one time in a pan of boiling water.
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Omelets in a Bag Ingredients
The ingredients for the omelettes in a bag are just like the ingredients for standard omelets. You will need these things to make the omelets:
- Eggs
- Cheese
- Meat
- Bacon
- Sausage
- Ham
- Veggies
- Tomatoes
- Onions
- Bell Peppers - Any color of peper is fine green peppers, red peppers or yellow peppers
- Mushrooms
- Spinach
How to Make Omelet in a Ziploc Bag
Start by breaking two eggs into a FREEZER ziploc bag. Add a tablespoon or two of the ingredients of your choice using tongs or utensils just like a traditional omelet.
Then, zip the bag close and moosh it up with your hands. You know scramble it!
Make sure you have written the name of each person's omelette on the bag.
Then place the omelets in a bag in large pot of water at around 190 degrees for about 14-15 minutes. The rule of thumb is about six and a half to seven minutes per egg. So if you decide you want a three-egger, you will need to cook it for more than 20 minutes. However, you can cook as many as you can fit in a pan at a time.
Then just walk away and wait for the omelets to cook.
Grab your favorite mug for coffee and rest.
Then, when the eggs in the omelettes in a bag are set up and done cooking, Just dump them onto plates.
Your perfect mess-free omelet!
What to serve with Omelets
Looking for ideas on what to serve with these omelets? Try some of these great sides
- High Protein Cottage Cheese Egg Bites
- Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Bars with Crescent Rolls
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- Easy Double Crust Crescent Roll Sausage Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Substitutions
In this recipe, you can do several substitutions to make these easier to make when you are campign
- Liquid Eggs - Buy a carton of liquid eggs and don't bother having to break eggs into each bag. Use about ยฝ cup of liquid eggs in place of shell eggs.
- Just Scrambled eggs - Make just bags of scrambled eggs by just making the eggs with some seasoning and shredded cheese.
Baggie Omelet Supplies
Going to be making these either on your next camping trip or even when just when you have the next slumber party with lots of kids? Here are all the supplies you need to make these super easy individual omelets.
FAQ
Yes, you can make these omelet baggies up ahead of time and pull them out when you need them. This is the perfect breakfast idea for school mornings.
Listen, plastic is always the enemy. However, if you are using BPA free bags, you are eliminating that chemical. High-density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, and polypropylene are the safest plastics to cook food in. The Ziploc bags brands and most other zippered bags are made of polyethylene.
Easy Scrambled Egg Recipes
Looking for more easy to make scrambled egg recipes? Be sure to check these egg recipes out.
- Quick and Easy High-Protein Microwave Cottage Cheese Egg Bites Recipe
- Devilish Egg Salad Stuffed Veggies
- Fluffy Crock Pot Scrambled Eggs
- Eggs Benedict Breakfast Casserole with Hollandaise Sauce
๐ Recipe
No Mess Camping Omelettes in a Bag
Ingredients
- 1 freezer bag
- 2 eggs
- ยฝ cup of omelette fillings of your choice - sausage bacon, onions, mushrooms, peppers, etc
- ยผ cup of cheese
Instructions
- Crack eggs into the freezer quart sized bags.
- Add fillings and cheese.
- Seal bag and shake to scramble and mix the omelette.
- Cook in gently boiling water for 14-15 minutes.
Nutrition
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Farmchick
I have a friend who does this and encouraged me to try it! I will have to now. These look really good and so very easy.
S
Sounds good except all the chemicals that just leached into your "healthy breakfast" from boiling the plastic toxins right into your yummy eggs.
Anne-Marie
SC Johnson doesn't use BPA (the worst hormone disruptor) in the manufacturing of their products - problem solved and those yummy eggs will still be yummy.
Maria
Just more plastic in our landfills. Yeah, totally better then using a pan and spatula.
jan
My thoughts exactly. ????
Harry
Those plastic bags dont have to go directly to the landfill. They can be washed out just like a plastic cup so that means reduce recycle reuse.
JRRJ
Can't be any worse than all the soaps and chemicals you use to wash your pan and spatula.
John
We wash and reuse plastic storage bags in our house.
Mark
Jesus itโs just a breakfast idea while camping!!
Tt
Thank you! What an unnecessarily wasteful thing to do.
Alan Fisher
Some of you folks just can't be satisfied with anything huh.? Whine, Whine...........:(
Susan
Glad Freezer Bags are BPA-free.
Colleen Schuman
I found out about those toxins being leached into the omlets as well and quit making them. The company says they are working on a boilable bag. Hurry up is all I can say cause I loved this omlette
B
My question is, if we have microwavable frozen veggies, whats the difference in the bags?
Tt
You shouldnโt use those either? But thereโs a difference between microwaving and boiling. Boiling is direct beat and microwaving is heating via activating water molecules- meaning that if the plastic bag doesnโt contain water molecules (it doesnโt)..itโs safer than these omelettes.
Jean
Isn't there some type of bag out like seal a meal or something that you put in the freezer that could be used if you are worried about chemicals when boiling. I don't know, just asking/suggesting. I thought that's what they were; to be able to cook from the freezer to the pot of water.
Shannon
Glad and SC Johnson are BPA FREE.. you can use them to boil with no chemical toxins or concern !
Shannon
Glad and SC Johnson are BPA FREE.. you can use them to boil with no chemical toxins or concern !
Greg Junk
I was wondering how to get those in....my breakfast is not complete without them!
Dennisse
Can you freeze prior to cooking for future use...maybe not just for camping...quick omelets before leaving for school, work, rtc
Leah
I have never tried freezing the eggs before but don't see why it wouldn't work.
Joni Boulware
Yes, we freeze ours before the trip and they are usually unfrozen in the ice chest when we are ready to use them. No BPA in Ziploc food bags and you can reuse or recycle them.
Melanie Sakowski
Rawr, agreed, but am tempted to make anyhow bc camping= letting go of some things
sam
shut up not bad at all love it <3
maritza
I loved the idea but unfortunately you are right about leaching toxins..How about Mason jars???
Fondabkg
I have read on the box my plastic bags and it states that BPA has never been used to make polyethylene. Yes, I didnโt read closely enough to directions and used regular (snack size) bags. Worked fine
gurpinder daliwal
I am saying this out of love and concern for my fellow humans, please do not heat up plastic you intend to eat off of. It causes cancer. You can find studies that back up this claim.
John
Please share with us the specific studies you are referencing that show correlation between heated up plastic bag with occasional consumption directing causing cancer.
Brenda
I bet you drink bottled water though. Personally I can't wait to try this.
Lisa
Everything causes cancer! Live your best life.
(Bladder cancer survivor)
Crystal
I am going to dothis for sure!
Rose @ Walnut Acre
I can't wait to try these, maybe for breakfast in the morning.
SDFarmWife
This is for sure on my next breakfast menu! Yummy!
BigD
I've got to try that one!
Lana
YUM! Wonder who figrued out this incredile edible trick??? AWESOME!
Amy
This would be a fun idea and good for cooking when getting ready for church or something. But I can't see doing this very often when making scrambled eggs is so darn quick.
Josh
Amen. And BPA or not, incorporating plastic into a breakfast classic is a fail. Those bags aren't cheap, at the store, or in the land fill!
Donna
Right on Josh!
Deana
They are RECYCLABLE!!! They will get recycled into another useful item, AND you can buy bags at the dollar store for Christ sake people!! Don't you recycle your batteries you use at home? Don't you recycle your cardboard boxes? Don't you recycle everything you possibly can?? Then wouldn't you recycle your plastic bags too?
Stop your bellyaching. The rest of us are in awe someone came up with such a great idea for camping!!
Jill
Absolutely well said. Does everyone have to gripe over everything? My gosh it's like ppl say don't do this don't do that don't eat this or don't eat that it will kill ya or make you sick. Ppl do you not realize you could get killed crossing the street. Omg maybe we have to stop doing that too. Gosh give it a brake ppl!!
Sam
You never know when something is going to get killed crossing the street. I have two roadkill deer in the freezer as we speak. Think I will fry up a some deer breakfast sausage and mix it into my freezer bag omelet.
Makeggsanyway
Amen to that!!!!!!!!
James Rape'
Be careful of that deer, Sam. Someone will be saying that it was eating from some poor farmers' field that was sprayed with an insecticide,and that you will get sick and pass it on to your kids, etc., etc., blah blah blah. Think I'll thaw out some backstrap and see if it makes me ill. haha. Maybe a little chunk of elk to go with my boil-in-bag omelette.
Tammy
So I don't care about the people gripping about the plastic usage, seeing how it's a camping hack, which I love. So greatful that you shared. I would like to know do you cook the sausage and bacon first?
Lynn
Everyone has to be negative now days.....if they can't gripe about something n make somebody feel bad then they are not happy.....
Jessica
Well said Deana
Jessica
Well said Deana. ๐
kelly eck
Amen! Poor Leah is just trying to run her blog and put a nice recipe out there for us campers. This isn't the place for social media debates.
Maggie
Think about what you are saying....I have used 4 bags for 5 days. BPA free. I just mix and boil and the store in frig for next day,then recycle. Always use them when camping. Surely better than using all that water to wash dishes when you live in the desert. I thought this was a great idea. Also my time is worth something. Some people just like to argue I guess. SMILE once in awhile and give someone credit for a good idea!
lin
do you recycle? seriously? see the same dumb comments about plastic. it's bpa free and we recycle.
.... or you load a dishwasher, use soap and run hot water .
Donald Trump
Get a grip Josh, live a little! who gives a damn about a few plastic bags, it's not like every single person in America is going to get right onto making omelets in a bag. Furthermore, there are more important things in life like living to the fullest and not worrying about little things like a plastic bag
Katie @ On the Banks of Squaw Creek
Awesome! Definitely going to try this!
LisaWeidknecht
Great post! Never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing.
Karen
Love it
Angie A
Hoorah! Love this!
Robyn
We love to do this omelet method. It's a lot of fun and oh so easy! ๐
Tabitha @A Penny Saved
Stopping by from MM. I did this with an "omelet bar" for a Christmas brunch years ago. It was perfect and works really well. Thanks for reminding me!
Brad
15-20 minutes plus use a plastic bag very wastefull of time and money. An omettecan be made in 2-3 minutes in a pan.7-10 completed same amount of time and not wasted any zip top bags.
Mary Kay
Yes, that's if you're just doing one omelet. This post was really for a fun and easy way for a family with kids to do eggs. This would be perfect while camping. One person standing by the stove cooking 6 or more omelets, all "to order", with everyone eating at different times vs. everyone participating in their own creation and eating at the same time. Sounds good to me!
Laura Jones
Do you spray grease or add margarine to the bag?
court
No you dont it slides right out!!! ๐
Becky
It's ok it's a dude making the comment they don't understand the time. In cooking for a family cuz they just get to sit back and eat it. I think it's a brilliant idea cooking for 4 kids 5 if u count the hubby I could actually cook theirs and mine and have mine still hot. Totally doing for dinner. Might even think about just throwing the bags away after chemicals and all just for all the amazing negatives that can't add actual feedback of whether the recipe is tasteful or not. Thank you to the ones that left useful feedback.
Phyllis
Can you use silicone bags?
Leah
I am guessing it will work.
Samantha
Its perfect for camping trips though!!!
Trish
This posting is was meant as a ideal when you have a several omelets to make and serve as once, like perhaps kids sleepover or family gatherings. Easy clean...
Mame
My concern is what is cooking into the eggs from the ziploc bag. People you do remember that plastics when eaten cause cancer right. You are not even to leave water bottles in your trunk so how can you possibly safely cook in a ZIPLOC BAG #confused maybe if you used an actual food bag designed for cooking. This is insane!
Roberta
This is exactly what I was thinking. This looks extremely dangerous to me.
Jr
Taco bell heats there need like that and I bet everybody that's is talking bs about this good ideals loved taco bell
Nancy
Have you ever wondered how those water bottles get to the store. They sit in the back of a trailer in the heat traveling across the country. I'm pretty sure it gets hot in there.
Kristin
A little more research... ziploc brand makes microwaveable bags which are usable for this. However, their bags contain none of the problem chemicals associated with the misleading reports we all heard about a few years ago. You cannot use just any bag though! Gotta read the cautions/recommendations on the packages. This was my concern too. A few Google minutes left me more confident. ????
Shelley
Glad zip lock bags are bpa free
sally
Do you seriously think your bottled water is sent to the store refrigerated??
Learn the facts and read prior posts before looking like an idiot
Renรฉe
Perhaps the person being uncivil should consider how she is perceived instead of calling out others...
Ava
This looks like a great idea. Is there anyway you can prep these ahead and keep in fridge a day or so until ready to cook? We are going for a week in a camper and Iโm trying to menu prep some foods for a family of 7.
Haha
Just to let you know that leaving waters bottles in your car is funny! They are shipped to the stores in hot semi trailers.... lmao
Jim
So do you use a plate to heat food up in a microwave? More than likely there are plastics or some other โharmfulโ chemical inside that plate.
Everything today will kill you.
Bottom line, when your number is called, itโs called and there isnโt a damn thing you or anyone else can do about it.
Time to just live people.
Jim
You haven't added the time, chemicals and effort to wash the pan and spatula or do you just throw those away?
Chelsea
I'm totally going to try this soon!
shopannies
love this idea what a great weekend breakfast come see what i shared at http://shopannies.blogspot.com
Georgia Girls
Thanks for sharing this! Fun for the kiddies, too.
Donna (Just One Donna)
This is a great idea for a busy family's breakfast. I also like omelets for lunch and this idea would make it easier by removing the cleanup.
Casey
Do you have to cook any meat you put in first? Or veggies?
Leah
I do not cook any veggies first. The meats are all precooked.
Joe
I think it would be best if the meat is precooked
Kendra
Is it safe to heat up plastic bags?
Petal Pusher
No
william Monroe
Could you freeze them, drop the frozen items in cooler so they would travel and keep longer? Would adding a pat of butter to each get them outof the bags easier?
Leah
I have never tried to freeze but bet it would work. And the butter is a great idea.
Lori
Did you end up trying to freeze them first? I'm going away camping and would like to prep ahead and freeze but looking to find out how it worked for you? Thanks
Christopher
I'm destroying the planet one omelett at a time. ASK ME HOW!
Shame on all of you!
Petal Pusher
Totally agree Christopher. Bad idea to cook in plastic bags and what a waste of resources. How is it too hard to clean a pan while camping?
Geri Dodge
It's not the pan that is the issue. It's the ability for each person to have what they want in their omelet and eat at the same time. No more, one omelet at a time, over and over until everyone has theirs. If you do this once or twice a year I don't think you really need to worry about the toxins.
Laura
Chill out
Cory
LOL! ๐
Fiona
Best thing ever!! I'm rubbish at omelettes, always turn to scrambled eggs!! This is easy, mess free and so tasty! Worth a try!
Donna Strandlie
What size freezer zip lock bag do you use?
Leah
I use quart sized bags.
Petal Pusher
Buyer beware is a fitting title. Never cook or reheat food in plastic unless you like chemicals leaching into your food. Why don't you just drop the eggs in the water and eat them soft or hard boiled?
Bonnie Cantrell
This was my first thought.
A neat idea but I wouldn't think that cooking in plastic freezer bags would really be all that good for you considering heating the plastic would cause chemicals to leach into the food.
I guess if its not something you are doing often. The only real positive here is that your kids can make their own and they all get cooked at the same time instead of one at a time.
Tia
This looks awesome! I will have to try it for our five kids. Your mobile website is all pop up ads! ๐
Leah
Working on the ads! Didn't realize that was happening.
Stephen
Unsustainable practice, It takes 1,000s of years for that bag to biodegrade for one serving of omelette. Plus it adds plastic into your family's diet.
Jason
I tried it but the bags melted after a couple of mins, I used frezzer bags water was a a soft boil not a rolling boil. Help
Christine
Ok my daughter just made them today u must use zip lock bags and a big enough pan so the big does not touch the sides of the pan and u only need a little boil and put it on med heat and then let it cook for about 15 min hope this helps
Bud
The bag can't touch the bottom of the pan. It's too hot there but if you used a freezer bag and it's not hitting the bottom of the pan it should be good.
Robert Piedra
Attack of the whiny little things upthread, lol.
Debbie
Makes me wonder what all these recycle freaks do with all their garbage they put out to the curb weekly. Geez!
jan
Well us true "recycling freaks" as you so eloquently call us, only put out one small bag of garbage about once a month not every week. Can you say that? Obviously not.
Tamara
I wonder if you can use Mason jars to cook individual omelets instead of using plastic. The only real issue would be the heat of the jar itself.
Bud
No! You have to squeeze the air out of the freezer bag or the steam might make it explode. The same might be true of a mason jar if you don't fill it all the way to the top and there is room for steam. When you are canning using mason jars and they don't explode but you fill the mason jars all the way up there for taking the air out of the jar so there's no Space for steam and you end up with a vacuum seal. Also when you put the scrambled egg into the bag you have a long round omelette. There is not much room between the outside of the omelette in the centerso then I can cook evenly.. But if you used a mason jar that he would take a long time to go from the outside to cook the center. It's just a bad idea.
George
DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use Ziploc bags of ANY kind. Even Ziploc discourages there use for cooking food in. Their bags are only rated to 195 degrees; boiling is 212. At the boiling point, dangerous chemicals are released, chemicals that will eventually KILL YOU. There are numerous other bags MEANT for boiling that will work for this intended process. Don't believe me. Do what I did. Some research.
Laurie
Zippered food bags are expensive. Are they reusable after they have been boiled in? I'm afraid even being washed they would be greasy. With the prep time for each bag, then the cooking, are you really saving time? Kids can eat first while you drink your coffee and cook yours and hubby's. Still only one or two pans to wash and how dirty are they? A lot cheaper and likely healthier in a fry pan. Definitely easier for camping tho', if prepared ahead and you just pull them from the cooler and cook. At home, use a fry pan.
jan
No they are absolutely not reusable after this method, also the Ziploc bags state right on the package not for use in the microwave so I would assume boiling them would apply.
Also I would never consider using 15 or 20 minutes of my propane to boil something I can easily make in a cast iron frying pan in my oven for 5 or 6 minutes or on the stovetop for 3 minutes. Not only environmentally unfriendly also a waste of propane that you may want to use for other purposes.
Linda
We just did these at camp for the very first time ---- OMG ---- These are TOTALLY AWESOME !! It is the ONLY way I WILL be making them from now on !!!!!!! My sister was AMAZED and filmed it and could NOT stop talking about them!! LOVE LOVE LOVE this !!!!!!!! Pinterest has the GREATSEST stuff!
Missy
Taking this idea on our Girl Scout camping trip! Omelettes our 10 girls can "make" themselves!!! Awesome!
Chuck
I just made a tomatoe, onion, bacon & 4 cheese (shredded) omelet in my Swedish Mess Kit! This is simply Fantastic! Thanks for posting this outstanding recipe. I'll be making many more of these in the future
Leah
Sounds awesome! So glad it was a success!
Johng7
Very informative post.Really thank you! Awesome. kbbcbbdeekdk
Jim Kastle
My camping group has been dong these on camping trips for two years now.
We heat the water in a turkey fryer which is deep enough the bags never touch the bottom of the container. We do them "pot luck" style where each family brings their favorite ingredients to share and their own eggs. It provides a great gathering place while waiting for them to cook. Kids (young and old) enjoy cooking their own food. We now use two turkey fryers with as many as 15 omelets in each. Try cooking 30 omelets in a pan without most getting bored and hungry! For purists, these aren't really omelets, they are scrambled eggs with a variety of ingredients infused in them. As far as concerns about plastic: If you worry about it, DON'T do this, your concern may be valid. As for me, I always mention that S.C. Johnson, maker of Zipzloc bags, says not to cook in their bags, but most of us value the freedom to make our own choice.
Treece
Love this idea! Thank you for posting it!
Maggie
WARNING!!!:
I know these say BPA-free plastic bags, but ya'll should NOT do this!! This is how you get cancer, food is not meant to be cooked in plastic. The chemicals get into the food at high temperatures and then you consume the toxins.
Please think about your cooking tools an utensils!
Jack Frost
ok for one, anything you buy in the store that comes in a microwavable steam bag is the same thing, eating non organic food, can give you cancer, consuming too much because you don't know what the farmer used in the fertalizer. standing outside a gas station filling up your tank does brain damage even if its only a tiny bit everytime you smell the fumes. The chemicals they use on bowling balls to clean them are toxic if they don't dry them off properly. Watching too much TV can make you fat! you can get so much harm from so many things that don't kill you right away.......but sadly....NO ONE GIVES A DAMN! LET US EAT OUR FOOD OUR WAY AND WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF spraying lysol on everything that everyone touches because germs are bad for you, checking all your dates on your food every day because one day late could kill ya and unplugging your alarm clock at night because you cant tell time if your sleeping.
Twingle Mom of 4
OMG, SUPER excited to try these with my family when we go camping this weekend. I was able to find heavy duty BPA free bags and the whole family will get to build their own omelette- and make memories. I would have never thought to try this. (FYI I tried this last night at home first to see how it works before we go camping and the heavy duty double zip bags worked great and didn't melt.)
Juliana
No, No, NO
Please don't do this. Plastic and heat are terrible for everyone
Tammy
Tried this at home prior to going camping , had big pan, made 2 omelets. Soon as I let go of the bags, the hit the side and melted the bags. Had to throw them away. Great idea but the picture of you making 6 or so in that turkey pan is misleading. No way some of them would not have hit the pan sides. I will stick to traditional way I think
Ggjhf
Do not do this. It doesn't work at all. The plastic melts after only a few seconds in the pot. Just
learn to make a proper omelette!!!
Teufelhunden
Most of you commenting on this must be libtards, plastic this and that. Well if you'd use that wart on top of your shoulders for something other than a hat rack and keeping your ears apart, common sense that's right you don't have that. How many of you buy and use boil in bag rice? Then just throw the bag away in your plastic trash bag. The key is do what someone has already suggested RECYCLE.......
mica rose
Lol, I am cracking up over your choice of words "wart on top of your shoulders...... I think this is a great cooking idea especially if you have several people that have individual tastes. Works for some, won't work for others.
So many people want to control other people under the guise of 'protecting or helping others'. That is what has gotten us into the situation we are in today. We are now mandated to protect each other from this now infamous "virus". Thank you for your humorous comment!
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Shawna
We did this for dinner tonight with our three girls and they loved it. We just set up all the add ins and cracked an egg into each of their bags and they thought it was great fun to mix up their own meal.
Jk
Number one plastic act like an estrogen in your body. Disposable Water bottles and plastic bags. Cause hormonal cancers and cause men to be less manly. We are so inundated with them now. Bpa free is a joke. They just use something similar that does the same thing. Plastic is all bad. Unless itโs like number 5 plastic. Look up phytoestrogens on YouTube. Youโll see some videos by chagrin and tonic
Jack Frost
Get a grip Josh, live a little! who gives a damn about a few plastic bags, it's not like every single person in America is going to get right onto making omelets in a bag. Furthermore, there are more important things in life like living to the fullest and not worrying about little things like a plastic bag
Mama of 6
Thank you for posting this i love this idea
Laura
Those Zip Lock bags are only BPA safe if you them for their intended propose not for boiling them when you boil the bags you are releasing plastic polymers into your food which are cancer causing agents. Not to mention the extra waste you are producing by using by using the zip loc bags. Just use a pan and washing it! Its healthier, Safer, more cost effective, and eco- friendly.
Wanda
I have been making these for many years...only difference is, I squeeze the air out of the bag then boil. Just cut off bag above the omelet and it will roll right out onto your plate!
Jacque
Hello
Any idea how long the eggs will last in the bags? Thanks
nidia
Thats what I wanted to know lol. So many ppl are talking about the bags?!?! Ugh! Seriously can I make it and take in a cooler or refrigerator to make the next morning camping?
TK Gee
REUSABLE BOIL-BAGS: A solution to the debate about the safety, waste, and cost issues of using disposable plastic bags for cooking are disposable sous vide bags. They're made for sous vide cooking (basically a fancy name for boil-in-a-bag cooking), are food-safe, save money over time, reduce waste, and best of all, keep more plastic from having to be created/recycled (which is the part of plastic usage that causes the most damage to the environment) in the first place. Swish some hot dish water through them and they're ready to go again and again. Problem solved.
Nidia
anyone know how far ahead you can make these ? Thinking about making them the night before our camping trip for breakfast the next morning.
Midnight
Great idea!!!! I love the recipe!! to all the other responders, back off itโs a recipe!!!!
IF YOU DONโT AGREE WITH PLASTIC DONโT USE!!!!!! Does everyone have to be so negative and argue-mental?
She gave you an idea so you be creative!,! And by the way you can use small glass jars!!!
Suzanne Marie Harden
Can these be frozen?
Leah
I have not tried to freeze them.
Theresa Carrico
do you have any issues with the egg sticking to the bag?
Leah
no, I don't have that issue.
Derek leaver
Sounds great but does the omelet stick to the bag and is just a mess y glob when it comes out?
Helen Daly
My husband is a big eater! If I use 3 eggs, should I increase the cooking time? TIA
Amanda
I have not tried this recipe yet but am planning a camping trip in July and am interested. My question is (as I have an 8 hour drive to our camp spot) would it keep well if I prepped the omelettes before and kept cold, or should I just chop all the fixings and prepare it when I get to the campsite? Tyia!
Leah
I think prepping them before you leave will work just fine.
Jan Hogle
Great idea and one I will try. I hope the negative Nancys posting here never eat a meal at a restaurant, considering how many cook their steaks, chops, chicken...even burgers using sous vide. There are safe, reusable products for cooking food in hot water. Reusable silicone bags can be safe, for example, but you do need to review whether they are food grade silicone, that do not contain bpa, bps, lead, latex, or phthalates, and that they can handle the temperature intended. Stasher Bags are one brand that is recommended, they are pricey, but there are other brands, too. Thanks for the post.
Jewel Jasper
This is a quick way to fill those bellies before that long trailride
Sara
On vacation in the condo and we tried these!! The kids loved making them and they were so easy!! Thank you!!
Jess
Does the meat need to be cooked before or will the bacon or sausage cook while boiling?
Leah
Yes, definitely want the meat to be cooked.
Gabrielle Fadina
This is absolutly perfect it gave me no mess at all!
Its really delicious too!
Faith
Been doing this for years on big family camp out. We boil in turkey fryer, pre scramble eggs and use a soup ladle.
Jewell K. (nawnie1)
Hi, i just run onto this, i was saying happy b day to a friend, i am embarrassed to say i am 67 yrs. old and never been able to make an omelet, with this hack, i can make them with all the vegs. i like and add a few that my grandkids come they can have their own!!! win, win, thanks.
Shawna
Can these be made and frozen ahead of time for camping simpleness?
Marissa
Do you cook the bacon or sausage before you put it in bag?
Leah
yes, definitely precook all the ingredients.
Ann S. Drew
Can you make these up ahead of time, and store in the fridge??? How long ???
Thanks,
Ann
Charlotte
Thank you for sharing. I am excited to give this a try on our next camping trip and get the kiddos involved in the prep. I'm saddened by all the negative comments.
Jo
I love this idea fir camping but would offer that instead of throwing out the plastic you wash and reuse!
Debbie
Do you precooked your sasauge before putting into bag?
Dan
This looks like a great way to do breakfast during camping. I will try it for sure, Thanks.
Dan and Kathy, Norco, CA
Trish
Yeah but don't you have to fry your bacon and sausage anyway so you might as well just put your eggs in the pan also
Diane
What is wrong with you people. She just gave a breakfast idea for camping!
Rae
Yes, use your head!! Dream up your own bag!
Seal-A-Meal
Silicone
Boil-N-A-Bag
And on and onโฆโฆโฆ
Carol
Do you cook the meat first before adding to the egg mixture?
Leah
Yes, definitely precook all the meat.
Texasgirl
I would recommend a sous vide bag for heat and food safety. Not sure if a zip bag would leach plastic chemicals into the food.
Rae
Love this! Except I use Seal-A-Meal bags!
Rae
Awesome! Use what ever bag you want! This idea is incredible!
Rae
Brainy
I like the idea! we put our ingredients in a coffee mug and microwave for a quick and easy breakfast.