Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

What about breakfast for tea?

This is the way!

I'm always amazed by the number of Mumsnetters who are very sensitive to smells, though. Mumsnet seems to have much higher proportion than the general population of people who react very dramatically to everyday food smells, and/or have to go to bed with a migraine or get an asthma attack if they sit next to some who wears perfume

This. The things people get preoccupied with and upset over on here sometimes are breathtakingly trivial.

Open the window. Its just not worth getting that excited over.

YABU

We have breakfast for lunch most weekends but bacon and sausages very rarely due to nitrates. I often do cooked breakfast in the week when I'm trying to eat healthier. I use the oil spray and a silicone brush to very lightly oil a decent frying pan. I grill the top of my fried eggs rather than flip them. Tomatoes I do in the air fryer or grill. Mushrooms usually fry in a nob of butter then quickly wilt/fry the spinach. As a treat I add hash browns done in the air fryer. I will do sliced halloumi in the same frying pan as the egg.

I love veggie cooked breakfast.

Cafe cooked breakfast only OK. Really prefer my own but friends cooking one (often with bacon and sausage) when I'm hungover also appreciated.

Not allowed??

I’m not a fan, but about once a month at the weekend my DH will do this for us. Yes it’s stinky for a bit but then subsides. I don’t particularly like it but it’s not a regular occurrence thank goodness.

I don’t understand why grilling apparently reeks but air frying doesn’t. Isn’t an air fryer just a little grill?

Why would anyone's hair smell of bacon if they had a fried breakfast - which is much lower in calories and sugar than e.g. cereals, and keeps you happily full (so no snacking) till lunchtime? Unless colleagues go round sniffing each others' hair?

There must be a greasy spoon nearby or find a truckers layby, plenty of sausages there 🤣

Have you heard yourself? 😆

Splatter possibilities, I get.
Aromas, I don't.

Fish smells that linger are so much worse

I cook mackerel to get rid of the smell of a fried breakfast.

Then I cook curry to get rid of the smell of mackrel.

Then I cook a fried breakfast to get rid of the curry smell.

You cook your bacon in the garden! 😳😳

I just hate the grease and smeech this causes. If I'm making sausages and bacon etc I'll just put them in the oven and I'm still amazed at how much fat is extracted out of them. I always open a window as can't bear it and I don't eat meat myself, just cook it for dh and kids occasionally. YANBU Also the washing up is made harder by all the grease and it never feels like you can get anything properly clean without dousing it in boiling water and shed-load of washing up liquid.

Now, hold on. 6 rashers between 2 people, means 1 days worth of breakfast.

How do you stretch that over 3 days?

Yes I presume it's just down to individuals tastes, personal likes /dislikes
Some will love the smell whiles others loath
Bit like Marmite, you either love or hate it - I guess, as with all things in life
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We love a cooked breakfast but my husband always cooks outside as he hates the smell of cooking. 🍳

What the heck are you doing that makes it smell bad?

I mean I love going out for a fried breakfast or bacon cob and don't often do one at home but that's more about avoiding waste (or being tempted to have one three days in a row because there are six rashers of bacon between two people). Plus the washing up.

This is why UK food has developed a reputation for being bland and homogenous

No longer do we use smoked haddock, kippers, potted shrimp, steak and kidney, liver and bacon, faggots, much seafood and fish despite being an island nation, mainly because of smell.

Open the window!!

Sounds really wonderful warmhearted & welcoming 💚🤗💚

Yes completely comprehend where you're coming from 😥🙏😥

Yes & immensely healthier the method you use too
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Occasional treat. And you can get nitrate free properly free ranged bacon.

I do the whole thing in the oven, bar the eggs. Uses a couple of baking trays, depending on the numbers.

Load up a baking sheet with sausage, bacon folded in half or wrapped around the sausage or mushrooms. Mushrooms, tomatoes, hash browns. All in the oven for about 30+mins.

Put some toast on and scramble (easiest to time and for large numbers) or fry eggs, bobs your uncle. I have done eggs on a baking sheet or in cups but the timing is much easier in a pan or a poaching pan.

And very little smell.

Meh, I can make a lovely full English without the use of a single frying pan. Your reaction is a bit OTT.

My unpopular opinion is that I can't understand why people want to eat revolting processed meat for breakfast or any meals at home or out because of animals welfare and the strong links to developing coleorectal cancer.