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Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

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luckysdadsway · 22/08/2025 10:19

I know I'll get flamed for this, but AIBU to feel so completely annoyed when anyone suggests cooking sausages, bacon or at worst a full fried breakfast at home?

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed a friend breakfast or the odd bacon sandwich in a cafe but absolutely not at home.

I can't cope with the awful cooking smell that comes from them. It sticks to everything including my hair which means I can smell it all day. The smell lingers throughout the house all day and we have any visitors I feel mortified by it.

A fried breakfast is even worse because not only do you get the awful smell but the amount of washing up that comes along with it. The need to use so many pans!

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Tiredofwhataboutery · 22/08/2025 12:46

Grammarnut · 22/08/2025 12:36

Why do you eat this food if it smells horrible to you. You are aware that the smell is part of our ability to taste?

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The food doesn’t smell horrible, sizzling grease smells horrible and clings to fabric. With an air fryer it just smells of bacon

mamagogo1 · 22/08/2025 12:46

You should smell my kitchen when I make kedgeree Grin

LillyPJ · 22/08/2025 12:44

Put the extractor fan on or open a window.

Tiredofwhataboutery · 22/08/2025 12:43

Air fryer for us. I love a cooked breakfast. Takes about 15 minutes. Eggs are done in a pan.

mamagogo1 · 22/08/2025 12:43

What the??? Have you not heard about extractor fans???

I love a bacon sandwich on Saturday mornings and it’s completely wasteful money to go out , anyway my coffee is better than shop bought

MrsSlocombesCat · 22/08/2025 12:39

BadActingParsley · 22/08/2025 10:32

DH cooked one this morning, bacon and black sausage in air fryer and scrambled egg on hob....no one at work has mentioned my hair smelling of bacon....

Well they wouldn't would they? Unless they're extremely rude!

Grammarnut · 22/08/2025 12:36

Comedycook · 22/08/2025 10:24

It's the frying imo. It's totally unnecessary. You can cook it in the oven or air fryer. I do the sausages, bacon, hash browns, mushrooms and tomato in the air fryer. I make scrambled egg in a pan on the hob and heat the beans in the microwave. No horrible smells.

Why do you eat this food if it smells horrible to you. You are aware that the smell is part of our ability to taste?

Grammarnut · 22/08/2025 12:34

You are being totally unreasonable. Do you cook at all? I find bolognese sauce lingers for hours as does any cooking smell. Get an extractor fan. Food cooked at home is always better, you know how it was cooked, what in and what the ingredients were!

JHound · 22/08/2025 12:34

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 22/08/2025 12:24

Ah c'mon.
The smell of frying bacon is divine.

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InMyShowgirlEra · 22/08/2025 12:32

So is your kitchen for show then?

If I want to eat something I cook it. Most foods have a smell when cooked.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 22/08/2025 12:24

JHound · 22/08/2025 12:13

I don’t mind a cooked breakfast but bacon really stinks when it’s being cooked.

(Bacon from pork I mean. Turkey bacon is just fine.)

Ah c'mon.
The smell of frying bacon is divine.

JHound · 22/08/2025 12:13

I don’t mind a cooked breakfast but bacon really stinks when it’s being cooked.

(Bacon from pork I mean. Turkey bacon is just fine.)

CharlotteRumpling · 22/08/2025 11:54

OdisseanQueen · 22/08/2025 11:50

I cook delicious smelly food every day, sometimes multiple times a day…

I only cook smelly food. I don't like any other kind!

Strawberrydelight78 · 22/08/2025 11:54

Plus all food smells. I can still smell the Italian meatballs I cooked last night

Strawberrydelight78 · 22/08/2025 11:53

I used the air fryer and grill and poach the eggs. You don't have to fry it there's other ways to cook one.

OdisseanQueen · 22/08/2025 11:50

I cook delicious smelly food every day, sometimes multiple times a day…

dogsarethebestalways · 22/08/2025 11:48

Greysowhat · 22/08/2025 11:45

Yes I am controlling and not ashamed of it either! 🙃

(That's an ironic smiley btw for those who are scared for my family😅)

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If the clean up is too much, what on earth are they doing in that kitchen?

As I said above, I use a spray of olive oil in the base of a pan. Good quality nitrate-free bacon that isn't greasy, eggs. No bad smells and no mess. Someone is doing something wrong if there's anything other than a frypan to go in the wash after.

SatsumaDog · 22/08/2025 11:45

Personally I love a cooked breakfast and just open the kitchen door. We don’t have an open plan house, so easy to contain smells, but tbh it probably wouldn’t bother me anyway.

However, your house your rules op!

Greysowhat · 22/08/2025 11:45

BauhausOfEliott · 22/08/2025 11:29

Christ, that's controlling.

If my partner tried to tell me what I could/couldn't cook and eat in my own home, I'd be ending the relationship.

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Yes I am controlling and not ashamed of it either! 🙃

(That's an ironic smiley btw for those who are scared for my family😅)

dogsarethebestalways · 22/08/2025 11:44

Are you cooking in lard or something? I use a spray of olive oil in the pan and just cook bacon and eggs. Good quality bacon, so it's not actually greasy. It only smells amazing.

femfemlicious · 22/08/2025 11:43

Comedycook · 22/08/2025 10:24

It's the frying imo. It's totally unnecessary. You can cook it in the oven or air fryer. I do the sausages, bacon, hash browns, mushrooms and tomato in the air fryer. I make scrambled egg in a pan on the hob and heat the beans in the microwave. No horrible smells.

I cook the bacon in a pan and use that for the eggs. Everything else in the grill and microwave. Just need 1 pan

fiorentina · 22/08/2025 11:41

I agree, but like you my family probably don’t! My MIL loves a huge fried breakfast, no windows open, the whole house smells of fat. I hate the way it then sticks to clothes and hair. I don’t want to go out for the day smelling greasy!

I think if you grill bacon, sausages etc it isn’t as bad. And ventilate the kitchen well!

OooPourUsACupLove · 22/08/2025 11:40

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OooPourUsACupLove · 22/08/2025 11:40

I wonder if the people with the smell issues have an open plan kitchen diner family room type layout and/or a large kitchen. Ours is tiny so a shut door, good extractor and if necessary opening the window or door to the garden clears the air in no time.

I'm also surprised no one mentioned a spatter guard.

These days I do the bacon in the airfryer and everything else on the flat side of a cast iron griddle that sits over two burners. But that's not so much the smell as to reassure veggie DH that the meat wasn't close to the non-meat.

RubySquid · 22/08/2025 11:40

CyanDreamer · 22/08/2025 10:34

I hate cooked breakfast, but there are things called windows. Close the kitchen door, open the windows, and burn a chef candle or something, problem solved. How would your hair smell if you are not even in the room?

The person cooking should be the one doing the dishes anyway. If someone in the house wants to make themselves a cooked breakfast, let them be.

If you have kitchen windows. I didn't ina previous property

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