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...

Oh god, don't do that.

My colleague brought in an electric egg boiler thing and cooks those most lunch times, then adds piles of pickled onions and beetroot to her stinking eggs. The whole place fucking reeks.

nuked pig

That made me laugh out loud!
Don't see a problem with bacon cooking tbh. Only problem would be me wanting a bacon sarnie as well!

I can't believe people object so much to cooking smells, how on earth do you cope when you go to restaurants, cafes or cook at home?

I'm just at calling them "Rashers" rather than just saying "bacon"

chemenger "Fish are surprisingly flammable."

this really made me giggle

Do You have time to cook and sit down properly to eat at 11am, my workplace wouldn't allow that, we'd have to wait till lunchtime. We only get a 15 min teabreak. I'd rather have yoghurt, crunchy nutty stuff with a banana, mashed avocado on toast if you've got a toaster or a mahoosive wedge of cake. If you use the microwave you have to clean it out and I couldn t be arsed.

I'm just at calling them "Rashers" rather than just saying "bacon"

I know Irish people who call bacon "rashers".

We have a splatter cover which goes over the plate/bowl when it's in the microwave, that's the only thing that needs washing afterwards.

YANBU - I can't believe how bloody precious you lot are!

We did bacon butties for everyone in our (small) office once on a George Foreman grill. The kitchen was on a different floor but it smelt delicious for days.

A visiting colleague microwaved a curry flavoured super-noodles thing and that STANK until serious action involving bi-carb and white vinegar was taken. He was oblivious as he only works here one day a month but he took a verbal beating when he next came in!

Don't do it OP.

As you've stated it's a kitchen, and you're using the microwave for it's intended purpose (cooking food, although YABU alone for cooking bacon in the micro!) then you are NBU. That's the point of the microwaves being there. Obviously clean it out after use.

I would precook a load of bacon at home, keep it in the fridge, and just take into work to reheat quickly in the microwave.

I seem to be in a minority here but I've never seen one of those bacon cooker things, I assumed it keeps smell down, so it seemed ok to me as you said your in early, but guess id have to give it a go see how the place smells after, and it seems to me it depends on where microwave located and how well ventilated and actually how much smell lingers, our microwave is quite centrally located and no windows extractor fan around, and yet we have many people cook eggs in it every morning and I've never smelt anything or had any complaints, the accompanying toast smell lingers for ages , usually only complaints is a)no one empties the crumbs and b) someone is on a diet and feeling hungry , one colleague often has smoked salmon and avocado with her scrambled eggs but again no complaints as she's in early and its cleared up dishes in dishwasher by time last ones come in.

Well for me even as a non meat eater (I'm not a vegetarian though) I'd not be bothered about the bacon but I'd be silently pissed off at the eggs!

Eggs fucking reek, I really can't stand them, they give me the heaves!

YABU

A) to even consider microwaving meat 🤢
b) the stench of pork is unbearable to some people and offensive to others.

Don’t do it.

Is it only irish people that call them rashers? i thought that was understood in the UK aswell.

@CrispbuttyNo1 thats a good idea!

Does scrambled egg in the microwave really smell? I've never done it at work but have thought about it... maybe I have no sense of smell, which could be a worry, I may well stink!

@HoleyCoMoley no i don't have time to eat at 11am hence i'm narky and starving for 1-1.5 hours which i'd prefer to avoid.

I wouldn't say anything obviously as it's my problem but it'd be hard going for me sitting in the stinky egg air every morning.

@Luxembourgmama no just us. The English don't have a rashers what we're on about

OH and i work in a very monocultural office so no one would be offended by rashers. Do eggs smell in the microwave?

Op, I do the following for breakfast and they are delish.

1 box of 6 eggs
1 carton of egg whites
1 bag of spinach
125g chorizo

I put the spinach in the food processor then mix it with the chorizo (chopped into small bits) and the eggs.

I then bake this in a brownie tray for 1 hour at 170 fan, then slice it up into 10 slices.

I wrap them up into packages of 2 and have a packet for breakfast each day- perfect, smell free way to have eggs for breakfast!

I wouldn't appreciate arriving in the office to smell bacon and eggs beings microwaved

Another warm breakfast option would be porridge, either the ones you add boiling water to or microwaved?

Otherwise breakfast muffins,or pre make bacon and egg sandwiches and just nuke them for 30 seconds if they must be warm?

My old colleague used to do scrambled eggs in the microwave everyday and it didn't smell.

This was in an office where we were banned from eating porridge because the boss hated the smell.

It means nobody who keeps kosher or halal can use the microwave. That’s a bit much IMHO.