‘The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri Admits ‘Eggs Are Robust for Me Proper Now’ After Making So Many Omelets (Unique)

Ayo Edebiri is taking a break from eggs.

The Bear star tells PEOPLE in regards to the memorable scene when, as chef Sydney Adamu, she creates an omelet “that is so stunning and lovingly made — and so truly scrumptious.”

“I used to be making it a bunch. After which I used to be like, ‘I truly really feel sick to my abdomen as a result of all that is is egg and butter.’ That’s French [cuisine] for you,” she laughs on this week’s difficulty, on stands now.

The dish is twist on a standard French omelet, with Boursin cheese within the center and bitter cream and onion chips on prime, plus chives. “Actually heaven,” says Edebiri, 27.

And sure, that’s actually her making the dish onscreen. As with most dishes seen on The Bear, it’s a second that required actual apply and culinary talent from the actors taking part in cooks in a high-intensity Chicago kitchen. 

Apply made excellent, admits Edebiri, but in addition created an aversion for her. “I made so a lot of them — simply because making a French omelet is so laborious — that eggs are powerful for me proper now!” she says.

Even meals with loads of butter offers her pause as of late. “It is simply so wealthy,” she says. “That is a bit powerful for me, the wealthy stuff proper now. However that [omelet] was genuinely scrumptious.”

As a way to play her food-obsessed character convincingly, Edebiri tells PEOPLE she studied with real-life cooks on the Institute of Culinary Training (ICE) in Pasadena, Calif. She and her The Bear costar Jeremy Allen White, who performs chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, spent a number of weeks, “sunup to sunset, simply cooking and studying the fundamentals.”

That meant “studying the best way to look as actual as we may,” she continues. “We may by no means get to a stage the place, you understand, we’re Michelin star cooks. I imply, we’d like to strive — I labored in some Michelin star kitchens.”

She provides with a nonchalant hair flip: “I used to be instructed I may very well be employed, however that’s neither right here nor there.”

The strategies Edebiri discovered at ICE made it a formative expertise for her as an actress. “That was truly unimaginable,” she remembers. “Being in your ft for that lengthy, making your self small in these actually tight areas, simply at all times being on, was fairly invaluable. And yeah, it’s extremely thrilling. I used to be like, I am an actress that learns a talent for a job. How enjoyable is that?”

The opposite perk of starring on The Bear, after all, is consuming its mouth-watering meals. As Sydney, Edebiri consumes a wide range of delicious-looking dishes all through the present, notably throughout a season two episode that sees her scouring Chicago eating places for culinary inspiration. Typically, she says, “The order of the day is, I am consuming. And so typically I might be like, ‘I am good on lunch!’”

One factor Edebiri, sequence creator Christopher Storer, culinary producer Courtney Storer, and episode director Joanna Calo have been “aware of” was ensuring to not waste meals whereas filming. “The eating places, you understand, have been nonetheless working. So we’re paying them clearly, however they’re like, ‘We do not wanna waste our meals.’ So we have been fairly strategic about it,” says Edebiri.

Given the success of the hit present — The Bear‘s first season one is at the moment nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, together with Edebiri for finest supporting actress in a comedy — the star says she is certainly acknowledged by followers when she’s out eating.

“I really feel like persons are consuming and so they’re like, ‘Why are you consuming? Should not you be…?’” She factors, as if to a restaurant’s kitchen, and laughs.