To think beans are a staple ingredient of a fry up?

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DH thinks a traditional fry up should be served without beans. I think it's not a proper fry up without some kind of moisture.

Who's right?

Toast, tinned tomatoes and baked beans can all be cooked in a frying pan.

Nah. Bread cooked in a frying pan is fried bread, not toast, and using a frying pan as if it was a saucepan doesn't make it frying.

I don't mind beans but on the side in a little ramekin. My DH hates them so prefers grilled/fried mushrooms I like tomatoes but they have to be fresh and grilled/fried not tinned. Crispy bacon a must. I don't mind tinned toms on toast grilled with loads of cheese on top!

That's why its called a cooked breakfast in this house. Covers the extensive range. Plus bacon is grilled, sausages done in the oven and eggs usually poached so no frying involved!

I can take or leave baked beans. Mind you I've just finished an All Day Brunch in my local Wetherspoons and there were plenty of beans. Ate them all.

Fry up consists of bacon, square and link sausage, well done fried egg, haggis, fruit pudding, tattie scone, mushrooms, fried bread, beans and tinned tomatoes with some tea and toast

skylark2

Nah. Bread cooked in a frying pan is fried bread, not toast, and using a frying pan as if it was a saucepan doesn't make it frying.

Frying is a process, and is not dependent on the items being fried.

The best fried bread ever isnt fried!

My mum takes lard out of the fridge to soften it, spreads a layer on one side of the bread and toasts just that side. Its got the taste of fried bread but isnt laden with grease, just perfect!

Or even better is to dip one side of the bread in the bacon dripping from the grill pan and toast that, delish!

I occasionally do something similar, Bogeyface - when I have goose dripping in the fridge. I make toast and put a very thin scraping of goose dripping on it, with a sprinkle of salt - it is delicious - all the roasty flavour of the goose and a bit of fried-bread-ness too.

It is my guilty pleasure, in the weeks after the Christmas goose!

I might do homemade beans but heinz beans taste like they've been smothered in sugary water, they are vile.

So we just ate...

Ovened sausages
Grilled bacon
Poached eggs
Fried Mushrooms
Roasted Toms
Tinned chopped toms
Beans (for those that wanted to ruin their meal with them)
Black Pudding (see beans)
Dirty toast (the friend bread I mentioned in my post above)

Am full
Feel sick
Was lovely :o

I think baked beans are the work of the devil so I am 100% with your dh there..

beans yes but all moisture must be kept on the side to prevent soggy contamination.

My Mil wouldn't even give you egg. Just bacon, sausage, white pudding and black pudding.

I like mushrooms and beans, sometimes a hash brown or fried cubed potatoes.

A fry up consists of egg, bacon, and sausage. You can have all sorts of extra stuff, but they are the essential building blocks of a fry up.

Beans, tomato, black pudding, fried slice, hash brown etc, are all bonuses.

By the way, dear vegetarian DH, cabbage is not an acceptable substitute for bacon.

DH right - I don't like beans with my fry up. Eggs, bacon, mushroom, sausage and roast tomatoes are the essential components for me.

What does he swap the sausages and black pudding for?

Spinach and beans. All fried. Like the cabbage.

Of course beans are essential

As evidenced by this blog

I think the writer of that blog may be a scientist.

"these brilliant chips. Crisp and fluffy. Existing as two states of matter at the same time."

" ...So the beans have got all that room to spread out and relax. You get a layer of beans that's only one bean thick, like a sort of delicious graphene."

"One of those splendidly flat and disc-like eggs, like a short stack of CD-ROMs you might get in a corner shop"

I think he must be. But he is also a poet. A bit like Gayle in Breaking Bad.

Vegetarian sausages, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes grilled with olive oil and basil, fried eggs, granary bread with salted butter and BEANS :D

Delicious extras - fried potatoes / waffles, sweetcorn fritters/pancakes.

NOM NOM NOM :D

Beans definitely a no no! Tomatoes lovely if grilled or fried (but not to the point of being squelchy!)

I read that blog while I was in America fantasizing about a proper full English breakfast.