To make rashers in the microwave at work?

[Luxembourgmama]

I'm thinking i might streamline my morning by eating breakfast at work. I do this sometimes and it means i'm not hungry by 11am. So far i've only ever had yoghurt or cottage cheese. I was thinking of maybe doing scrambled eggs in winter. But would I be unreasonable to do rashers in the microwave. i have one of these www.amazon.co.uk/Sistema-Microwave-Easy-Bacon-28-7/product-reviews/B076DFYL44/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_2?pageNumber=2&reviewerType=all_reviews&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8 so i wouldn't make a mess. I get in very early...

Personally I think that’s probably equivalent to cooking fish in the office microwave.

Yes it’s bloody unreasonable.

Have a fry up on a weekend and have something that doesn’t stink if you can tell possibly eat breakfast at home.

Literally most breakfast foods don’t smell.

Don’t be the dick who cooks egg or meat in the mircrowave.

Just zap some cabbage to go alongside it too

Yes, YWBU. smelly and antisocial.

That’s horrible. I’d honestly complain to HR if our work microwave stank of bacon in the morning!

If you want something warm in winter then google recipes for egg muffins or breakfast quesadillas, there are loads of options for things you can make in advance, freeze, then heat up in a microwave.

But don’t cook bacon in there!

That would feel. What about some (cold) ham instead if you'd like some meat?

*reek

i would have no problem with that if it's in a seperate kitchen?

In my office you would be lynched for cooking something smelly.

Acceptable breakfasts for us tend to be yoghurt/cereal/fruits in the summer and porridge or similar in the winter. Not smelly, not noisy, not irritating to anyone else in any way. We banned toast after some people couldn't deal with their own crumbs.

Can't you have ham?

Bacon isn't a human need.

Take crumpets!

I love bacon as much as the next person but noooooo

If it's a separate kitchen I don't see the problem. People heat up curries and all sorts in ours.

Look kitchens are for eating and microwaves are for cooking. I wouldn't have a problem with it, esp if you are in early. If anyone moans, offer to lend them your bacon cooker and they can join in.

Really, really antisocial.

Do you get in early to eat it? Really winds me up at work when people waft in at 5 past 9, then go and make some toast, cereal etc then sit there eating it until 20 past, then go back to the kitchen, have a natter, finally sit down and start working... when I've been working since 9am.

Yabu it would stink.

YABU unless you offer to make bacon sarnies for everyone in the office.

I think that's a giant no from me and everybody !

Barry your workplace sounds very depressing.

Totally U. And egg too! Bleurgh.

Hahaha yeas I remember this Greenfingers, used to wind me up too. And it was 'the media' so no one even started till 10am anyway, but they served free toast in the canteen until 11, so the 10am start time was really the time most people were lining up for their toast. One or two rounds, make a cup of coffee, but of a chat, and it was 11am at the earliest before most people say at their desk and said 'right, better get on with some work...'

And then take lunch break at 1pm

Luxembourgmama
Yeah why not? I can never make bacon in a microwave though.
Not quite sure what the drama is, it seems that some on this thread have misread ‘bacon’ for ‘novichok’.
If it smells, i’d Open a window before everyone else got in.
Ffs people.

No...I do scrambled egg every morning as there are only two of us in the office, and my boss likes the smell of it. But, she's vegetarian and I'd never cook bacon as the smell lingers all around for hours.
I did it once on her day off, and had to bring a lemon in to clean the microwave as it stunk of bacon for days.

I regularly have eggs, fish, curries etc. in the microwave at work, there's a team of about 8 of us and we all do the same - no one ever complains, don't really get the issue.