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...

If you have a shit in the middle of the office nobody will notice the smell of your rashers.

Every cloud.

If it smells, i’d Open a window before everyone else got in. Ffs people.

I don't think I've worked in a building that had opening windows for 25 years.

Ooh, I didn't realise you were planning on using your own microwave! Since it's not expensive, OP, I'd probably get it, try it, and see how much it really does smell. It might be no worse than a take-away bacon sandwich.

A guy I worked with had scrambled microwave eggs every morning. I like eggs but the smell used to make me heave and it hung around.

I'd be really pissed off if I worked with you. Highly thoughtless

YADBU

I'd be really pissed off if I worked with you. Highly thoughtless

So what do you suggest then everyone eats plain rice for fear of someone being offended by the smell. A colleague I used to work with hated the smell of toast is her hatred of the smell more important that the person who wants to eat toast?

Let's just agree that you will not be able to please everyone no matter what you choose to cook. There is a microwave there and it is for people to use there shouldn't be any restrictions on what you eat at work.

Seriously some people are just so melodramatic.

@dueanotherchange
Get up earlier ? Eating at home isn't a luxury.

I can't see the harm in it, enough people make bacon in ours. The only thing banned in our kitchen is stinky eggs

@CaMePlaitPas, did you mean to be so rude?

The issue isn't getting up earlier. The issue is the timing of my next meal. I don't want to eat my lunch at 10 or 11am.

Having a chance to have at least a cup of coffee at home in the morning would actually be a luxury for me.

Our office is fairly laid back on this (kitchenette in office) but fish is where we would draw the line. Someone once microwaved some mackerel, I was in the early stages of pregnancy and had to leave for a while.

You could try doing 16:8 and stop eating breakfast at all. I used to eat breakfast and was always hungry again by mid/late morning.

Now I don’t eat anything until midday and I’m actually not as hungry which is odd.

But yeah bacon at work isn’t really on.

Have a bag of Frazzles instead. You can't be cooking fatty meat in a communal microwave. The smell will linger, and not in a mouthwatering way.

@dueanotherchange I understand, you don't need to be a martyr.

Bacon is a bit smelly.

Can I suggest kippers instead?

We're always eating stinky stuff in our work kitchen, it is a separate room but the door is open and the smell drifts throughout the building there's only one particular soup that one of the directors eats that makes us all feel ill so we waft the doors and open windows when he eats that.

It smells much better than when his dodgy bowels flare up I'll tell you that!

No problems with people eating fish, broccoli, eggs etc. I might start doing bacon myself to be honest as I hadn't thought of it.

Good Lord people are odd. I'm a vegetarian and this wouldn't annoy me in the slightest except it would make me hungry. On your deathbed you are not going to think "I wish I'd spent less time eating things I like". You might think "I wish I hadn't wasted so much time listening to yappy killjoys". Enjoy your brekkie!

Seriously some people are just so melodramatic

Fine by me heads, then you won't mind me heating up a nice stinky bit of mackerel & melting some nice stinky cheese 🙄

As much as I love both, I wouldn't dream of doing either in a situation such as the OPs, because it would be unfair to others, by the same reckoning, bacon is offensive to many for various reasons. To me it stinks of what it is, part rotting dead pig 🤢

Can't say I'd be bothered!

would it work better doing it the night before at home.wrapping in foil in the fridge like a butty.might even be able to warm it with less smell?

It's a microwave and you'd be cooking food in it, so YANBU. I don't think anyone has the right to veto what food you have or to be offended by its smell or anything else.

As for religious reasons to be offended, your religion is just that, yours. The rules apply to you, not other people. Expecting others to not eat foods that YOUR religion prohibits is massively U.

Heavens to betsy - you mustn't! The smell!

I must be out of practice - I haven't worked in an office in a decade or so and back then no one had BREAKFAST at work. Or not in the offices I was in. You might microwave some soup for lunch or something but munching on bowls of cereal or porridge - or scrambled EGG - don't these people have homes? Why wouldn't you eat breakfast at home?

Then again seeing someone eating a banana on the train gives me the vapours.

I wouldn't be annoyed though.also because I think most thigns in the microwave smell.i mean if you cook one of those shephards pies mealls or hot pots in there.they do smell!but its not intolerable.

Just because no-one has said snythubg doesn't mean they like it. Don't be so bloody anti-social.