[mrestko]

Those eggs are not being levitated above the surface. I guarantee it. The pan would need be to be red hot to maintain the leidenfrost effect with a pan full of eggs. As anyone who has played around with the leidenfrost effect knows, since there is essentially no friction the little droplets of water skate around like pucks on an air hockey table. When you put your eggs in your hot pan cooking an omelette they do not float and flip out the side of the pan as they would if they were experiencing the leidenfrost effect.

[elil17]

The omelette does float on the pan. I see this happen every time I make the recipe.

My guess about why this happens is that, given that the omelette is a significantly large fluid droplet, the pan doesn’t actually have to be above the Leidenfrost point for the entire cooking process because it takes time for the residual steam to flow out from underneath the droplet.

[snowwrestler]

If it was the Leidenfrost effect in action, it seems like you would get better results by ladling in a little water instead of high-smoke-point oil.

If Leidenfrost is what makes the omelette slide, why do you need oil at all?