Crustless quiche ?!

[pottersusan]

Why do they call them crustless quiches when they have a crust on the bottom?

I would have thought a crustless quiche is actually a frittata or omelette, but maybe I'm missing something

 

[KookyCat]

I'm glad you asked that question, I've never understood it, never. It upsets my sense of balance and logic and I dislike those two bedfellows being upset. In a restaurant recently I ordered a naked tart (couldn't help it it was so cheeky), and that was delightful, the tart was housed in sliced vegetables and was ruddy lovely, but the waiter said nobody ordered it when they called it vegetable tart, now it's their most popular dish because it's called a naked tart, they also do a naked Manchester tart and something called a mooning copper (couldn't get to the bottom of that...boom boom 😉). So maybe the name is psychological and we all think omelette sounds boring but are more thrilled by the word crustless. Personally crustless conjures unpleasant images of scabs, but perhaps I'm peculiar in that regard. Free the frittata I say

 

[Ljc]

I'm glad you asked that question, I've never understood it, never. It upsets my sense of balance and logic and I dislike those two bedfellows being upset. In a restaurant recently I ordered a naked tart (couldn't help it it was so cheeky), and that was delightful, the tart was housed in sliced vegetables and was ruddy lovely, but the waiter said nobody ordered it when they called it vegetable tart, now it's their most popular dish because it's called a naked tart, they also do a naked Manchester tart and something called a mooning copper (couldn't get to the bottom of that...boom boom 😉). So maybe the name is psychological and we all think omelette sounds boring but are more thrilled by the word crustless. Personally crustless conjures unpleasant images of scabs, but perhaps I'm peculiar in that regard. Free the frittata I say

Well thanks lol, Im hungry now and lunch is hours away 🙂

 

[Ralph-YK]

{*goes to shop to buy big quiche*}

 

[gossamersquare]

I made my own last night in a pyrex flan type dish. Just chuck the mix in and comes out no problem.

 

[Mark Parrott]

A quiche without pastry is a frittata. Fact.🙂

 

[pottersusan]

A quiche without pastry is a frittata. Fact.🙂

So to go back to the original question - why do they call them crustless quiches? 'Cos they're neither crustless nor quiche🙄

 

[Northerner]

So to go back to the original question - why do they call them crustless quiches? 'Cos they're neither crustless nor quiche🙄

Perhaps they make them as full-crust quiches, but then carefully and painstakingly remove the crust, leaving no evident crumbs? A frittata wouldn't start out with a crust. 😉

 

[Ralph-YK]

Perhaps the quiches just haven't got dressed yet!

 

[Amigo]

A quiche without pastry is a frittata. Fact.🙂

A frittata doesn't contain milk but a quiche does and they're cooked differently. I think they have a different consistency in that a quiche is more 'custard' like.

 

[Mark Parrott]

You've got a point there, Amigo.