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If you have never heard of an omelette, you must have your head in the sand. Omelette recipes are probably the quickest and most convenient way for you to make something to eat in the shortest amount of time possible, with only a handful of ingredients.

Omelettes tend to be made from beaten eggs which are then covered with either oil or butter quickly in a frying pan. Omelettes tend to be served with many different toppings but usually when you've made an omelette, you fold it and put meat or cheese in the middle (making a panini-like snack).

There are many different kinds of omelette. The taste of each varies vastly. The reason there are so many is that different regions around the world have different tastes. One particularly strange omelette was popular in California during the gold rush. It was filled with bacon and breaded oysters, and it goes to show that you can literally put whatever you want in an omelette and it should work (within reason of course)

The largest omelette that was ever made in its time was baked in March of 1994 in Yokohama, Japan (128.5m squared, 1,383 feet) . 160,000 eggs were used to make the omelette and, although that seems like a pretty hard size to beat, In May of 2002 a bigger omelette was made.

The Lung Association in Ontario, Canada learned how to make an omelette and the final product weighed a whopping 2,950kg. Pretty incredible if you think about it!