Page 5 | Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

suki1964 · 22/08/2025 11:38

We tend to have a "fry" for our evening meal - last night was the night - it was lovely

Call it a fry but its all grilled bar the eggs and beans

Coffeeishot · 22/08/2025 11:38

@NeverDropYourMooncup my eldest used to appear like a ghost on a Sunday morning if there was bacon cooking appear out of nowhere 😀

Lorrymum · 22/08/2025 11:37

I love the smell of cooking bacon wafting from numerous houses on a Sunday morning walk with my dog.

TwistedKeys · 22/08/2025 11:37

My youngest DC seems entirely incapable of having cereal for breakfast or a sandwich for lunch. Sometimes they cook pasta with garlic for lunch. I cannot tell you how much it irks me. I know IABU but the house continually smells of garlic or sausages. I won’t miss that when they depart for uni next month.

BigFatBully · 22/08/2025 11:36

FudgeSundae · 22/08/2025 11:34

I don’t understand what kind of monster objects to cooking smells. Waking up to the smell of bacon is AMAZING.
(Lighthearted, mostly)

Some bacon can smell foul but some can smell pleasant - smoked I think smells better.

Another suggestion to the OP would be to ensure you have a heavy-weight kitchen door that can 'lock' the odours in to that room.

AintNoPunshineWhenShesGone · 22/08/2025 11:36

Greysowhat · 22/08/2025 11:03

You are not being unreasonable because I hold the same stance. NO frying in my house! The smell is too much. The clean up is too much. The food is a health hazard. Anyone wants a fry they can go out and have it in a greasy spoon.

What sort of control freakery is this??

Please tell me you don't have a partner and DC?

Glitchymn1 · 22/08/2025 11:36

Open windows, clean up afterwards.

FudgeSundae · 22/08/2025 11:34

I don’t understand what kind of monster objects to cooking smells. Waking up to the smell of bacon is AMAZING.
(Lighthearted, mostly)

NeverDropYourMooncup · 22/08/2025 11:32

How on earth would I have got teenagers out of bed of their own volition at the weekend without the delicious scent of smoked bacon wafting into their brains and making it worthwhile to be conscious before 1pm? And how would I have got them to eat a varied diet without them associating the smell of onions, garlic, spices and herbs with something lovely coming their way once it's all cooked?

(equally lighthearted).

Aroma is an essential part of appetite, taste and starting the digestive process. To just plonk a plate on a table with no anticipatory responses seems to me to be unlikely to result in as satisfactory a meal (and maybe the restaurant/dining concept of aperitifs, appetisers, amusee-bouche and the like arose specifically because not being able to smell food cooking affected appetite and pleasure - I wasn't about to do that for them, after all) - so the lovely smell of cooking performs its natural function.

BauhausOfEliott · 22/08/2025 11:31

susiedaisy1912 · 22/08/2025 11:24

I agree op. But then I detest cooked breakfasts. Don’t see the point in them.

But why would that mean nobody else in your house would/should be allowed to cook them?

HerLivingontheHill · 22/08/2025 11:30

I think it depends on who 'anyone' is OP.

Is this your partner, or a bunch of teens getting up at midday?

You can't dictate who eats what really.

I know someone who never cooked fish for that reason.

BigFatBully · 22/08/2025 11:30

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!

If your wife wants to cook a fry-up, then that's up to her. I'm a vegetarian but my family aren't and I cook meat for them. The best thing to do to avoid lingering odours is to open a window in the kitchen and 'waft' the smoke out to keep it smelling fresh.

Telling other people what to cook/eat is controlling, in my opinion sir.

BauhausOfEliott · 22/08/2025 11:29

Greysowhat · 22/08/2025 11:03

You are not being unreasonable because I hold the same stance. NO frying in my house! The smell is too much. The clean up is too much. The food is a health hazard. Anyone wants a fry they can go out and have it in a greasy spoon.

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.

borntobequiet · 22/08/2025 11:29

Gosh a fry-up leaves a lovely smell! So YABU. Open a window if you don’t like it.

zaazaazoom · 22/08/2025 11:29

ImGoingUpstairsToTakeOffMyHat · 22/08/2025 10:37

I’ve found my people!

Totally agree OP, the smell is terrible. Also by the time you buy all the ingredients you could have popped down to Morrisons cafe to have one cooked for you for the cheaper price e of £3.50

Morrisons fry up is vile. It is nothing like the joy of a proper fry up.

19lottie82 · 22/08/2025 11:29

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.

This. You can cook most of it in the oven or air fryer.

theressomanytinafeysicouldbe · 22/08/2025 11:28

I do bacon and eggs on the foreman grill, scramble eggs, hash brown in the air fryer, the only thing i fry is the mushrooms, however I would much prefer to go out for breakfast

borntobequiet · 22/08/2025 11:25

Gosh a fry-up leaves a lovely smell! So YABU. Open a window if you don’t like it.

AintNoPunshineWhenShesGone · 22/08/2025 11:25

CharlotteRumpling · 22/08/2025 11:20

How do you all manage curries or things with garlic or chilli like stirfries?

Apparently the OP is only 'mortified' if visitors smell bacon and sausages 🤷‍♂️

CharlotteRumpling · 22/08/2025 11:25

susiedaisy1912 · 22/08/2025 11:24

I agree op. But then I detest cooked breakfasts. Don’t see the point in them.

Have you ever had a piping hot dosa or parathas?

susiedaisy1912 · 22/08/2025 11:24

I agree op. But then I detest cooked breakfasts. Don’t see the point in them.

HerewardtheSleepy · 22/08/2025 11:23

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!

If you don't want cooking smells get an extractor fan (or a better fan than the one you have).
And FFS don't cook kippers.
YABVVU by the way,

TheLurpackYears · 22/08/2025 11:23

You're being unreasonable. As are any of your friends who would make you feel mortified for having the smell of fried food in you home. What's the problem, them thinking you are common? A fatty?
I bloody love a home cooked fry up, it doesn't generate more washing up than any other multi element meal like a roast, just shove it all in the dishwasher and have a cuppa.

Pressthespacebar · 22/08/2025 11:21

I make a fry up every Saturday morning for me and my 9 children! Yes the washing up is annoying but we all chip in and extractor fans are there for a reason 🙂

RimTimTagiDim · 22/08/2025 11:21

My house doesn't stink all day when something is fried...