I am going to cook you the best meal you've ever eaten
So there is a famous scene in Sidney J. Furie's The Ipcress File (1965) in which Michael Caine's Harry Palmer impresses Sue Lloyd's attractive fellow counter-espionage agent with a home-cooked omelet prepared and plated as deftly as a fine restaurant; it impressed me, especially when he cracked the eggs one-handed (in a close-up cameo from author Len Deighton) without crumpling fragments of shell everywhere. I've still got this brace on my right hand, so ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch cooked me an omelet for dinner before he left for work tonight because he had made one for himself last night when he got home and it had looked beautiful and I'd have needed two working hands. With my one working hand, however, I can now crack an egg on the side of a bowl without crumpling fragments of shell everywhere two out of three times (the third time required some fishing) and I am genuinely pretty proud of this fact.
spatch cooked me an omelet for dinner before he left for work tonight because he had made one for himself last night when he got home and it had looked beautiful and I'd have needed two working hands. With my one working hand, however, I can now crack an egg on the side of a bowl without crumpling fragments of shell everywhere two out of three times (the third time required some fishing) and I am genuinely pretty proud of this fact.
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Agreed. I have just sadly determined that I can't get it on TCM or Netflix right now.
The best egg cracking is Lynn Redgrave as the housekeeper in Gods and Monsters, where she tosses off half a dozen of them without looking, while discussing James Whale's sexuality.
*files under the many reasons I still need to see Gods and Monsters*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3Iuoln2WQ