Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

Try cleaning the filter on your extractor fan.

Nope fried breakfast on a weekend in winter is great. Who cares about the smell, it tastes delicious.

Almost every type of food smells when you cook. What about a bolognaise, curry, a chilli, or even a roast? I find garlic permeates far more than bacon.

I do cooked breakfast once a month, my sone and his partner come round for it. I don't fry anything, eggs are scrambled or poached, no meat at all and veggie sausages are done in the airfryer, cold avocados and tinned tomatoes, grilled mushrooms and toast.

Well you can do what you want in your house, but I think banning other people from cooking what they want in their houses is overkill 😂. I haven’t fried sausage and bacon for years though, I do it in the airfryer and the smell in minimal.

I think it can be done without stinking the whole house out but I do hate the smell if it's done improperly. My brother in law stayed with us and cooked bacon in butter every morning. I was 32 weeks pregnant and it made me want to throw up every time I went into the kitchen. Didn't help that he never washed up after himself...

Totally agree. I lose my shit when someone brings home a pack of bacon because I know what’ll ensue 😂

Same. Everything else is in the airfryer, or before that, the grill

We regularly cook curries, chilli and other flavoured foods and I can’t say the smell lingers though. Windows and back door open, rarely even need the extractor fan on.

I don’t like to cook them but whenever we go to my dad’s house he always does a great one. Only thing he can cook. I’m pregnant right now and he gives me extra bacon because he genuinely thinks it’s good for the baby. He always tells me every time I go he used to cook it for my mum every morning when she was pregnant and that’s why we’re all tall.

Do you not have any ventilation?

This is what I do, do as many things on the one frying pan as possible 😁

Oh, @luckysdadsway … I’m afraid you’re using inadequate tools!

1. You need a really good frying pan - if high quality non-stick on a heavy base works for you, try that.
2. You need to use the right oil. Again experiment to see which oil doesn’t spit or send up black smoke at a high temperature. (I tend to use olive oil for everything.)
3. Buy better quality bacon that isn’t full of water and nasty additives that immediately leak out during frying. (This is much simpler than grilling bacon.)
4. Remove your eggs from the fridge so they’re not freezing cold when they hit the hot oil.
5. Open the kitchen windows and close the door if there is one.
6. As others have said - you need a much better extractor fan.
7. Cover your hair with a scarf and don’t wear clothes you intend to wear outside the house!

A fried breakfast at home should be a source of enjoyment - you’re just doing it wrong.

You're making me hungry. I do it all in 1 big pan. Sausages first then shove them to the side, bacon next, then black pudding, fried slice and eggs last. Not a fan of beans, tomatoes, shrooms etc. Back door and windows open. It's fine.

My husband would be horrified if I said we couldn't cook fried breakfast at home🤣 with regars to the smell, that's what extractor fans are for

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

We sometimes have sausage or bacon sandwiches but I cook them in the oven.

Totally agree with OP but wouldn't dream of criticising anyone else from doing it. I don't mind the smell but can't stand the grease that's left behind - all over the hob and the splashback mainly. Yes, I know I can cook bacon in the oven but hate the thought of grease-spattered shelves, and no, I don't have an air fryer (nor want one). We have a couple of good greasy spoons locally that do brilliant fry-ups so take our custom there.

I cook mine on the bbq.

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.

Yes, this. Our house will temporarily smell of whatever has been cooked, whether that’s a curry or a tomatoey pasta sauce.

We grill ours just fry the eggs then open the back door this will.blow your mind op we occasionally have breakfast for dinner ! I can safely say it doesn't cling for days.

Another one to say as @bridgetreilly - if the smell lingers all day even in your hair then you don't have enough ventilation in your kitchen. Do you have a proper fan over the hob? Also if the pans are washed pretty quickly afterwards that gets rid of a lot of the smell. I think you are being a bit unreasonable saying no-one should cook bacon or sausages in your house if it the smell that's the issue. A chicken casserole or ragu sauce will smell. I actually like most cooking smells whilst they are happening and if you clean up properly afterwards in a well ventilated room it shouldn't be a cause for mortification. But what do I know ? 😂

It’s the grease spattering everywhere that is so disgusting.

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....