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...

Anything!

Shared microwave? Don't be so selfish.
And I assume you have no vegetarian, Jewish or Muslim colleagues? Or didn't you think about that?

Jeezo I wonder how some of you cope in real life if stuff like bloody bacon sends you into a tailspin. Does your house “stink out” if you cook bacon at home? If you go into a cafe where they’re serving bacon does the whole place reek? What a bloody overreaction

OP I’d make and eat if if you want. The only thing that would annoy me is that the smell would make me want some ;)

I really don't get this. I get up really early muck out some horses, have a 1 1/2 hour commute and manage not to eat breakfast at work (I am the boss but relatively new here ). Our office is full of lovely people who live nearby who eating cereal at work the morning. Just why????

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

Don't you see that this would be your problem. Whilst it is nice to sometimes consider others when choosing your food it would be madness to deny yourself something for fear of offending another person. You could argue that you must never eat cakes because Jenny rom account is always on a diet or that toast shouldn't be allowed because Dan is a Coeliac. Just because others work there doesn't mean they get to dictate what she chooses to eat.

And I assume you have no vegetarian, Jewish or Muslim colleagues? Or didn't you think about that?

Is there a reason their preferences trump everybody else's? "I only eat halal so must everyone else."

Wouldn’t bother me and I’m vegan

Don't you people realise there is no strong smell in cafes or restaurants because that's what the extractor fans are there for? To block out/suck up strong smells So that is not a valid arguement.

Anyway. Yabu. Have cereal toast or fruit instead of cooking raw bacon in a bloody microwave.

I literally wouldn't care.

Bacon, fish, curry, popcorn etc. have no place in an office microwave. Keep it to reheating a mild cooked lunch, or porridge if you have the bowl for it.

I wouldn’t be thrilled about someone making scrambled eggs either.

We have a separate kitchen at work and it gets used for all sorts of smelly food - curries, pasta, fish, soup. No-one's ever complained afaik.

If you're in a office full of bacon fiends like I am, then it might not be a problem. I was incredibly startled a year or so ago though, to see someone come back in with a Micky D's bag, then proceed to chuck their lukewarm beef patty in the toaster in a communal kitchen area!

@Slarti - the likelihood of pork stuff left behind in the area a veggie colleague or a Jewish colleague or a Muslim colleague might want to cook their food. Getting recooked with their food.
Or me. I'm none of these and I love bacon. But would think it selfish and a bit gross to have someone else's food reheated and mixed with mine.
Bacon in the microwave is awesome. At home.

I dont see an issue. 5 or 6 people cook bacon in our work microwave in the space of 15-20mins. It doesnt linger like frying it does....

If you want to cause mass evacuation of employees so everyone pisses off to the park, or show the fuckers how much you care, then go ahead! They'll luv it. And say "Next week: testing new chemical weapons!" and laugh loudly because one's own jokes are the funniest.

No, seriously, please don't. :) Even if you can open the windows (most offices these days are sealed, with all the inmates and their germs) it will prob. take a week to air.

There are really people that are bothered by this?! I used to work with a woman who slow roasted duck legs in the oven at work like 3 times a week. Nobody cared.

Heads nobody is saying deny yourself, but to not consider others in a shared environment/microwave is just plain rude. I wouldn't be so thoughtless & I cant for the life of me understand why that is so hard to grasp

I'm also in the camp that finds eating breakfast at work bizarre, ffs, just get up a bit earlier & relax & enjoy a good breakfast. If you have DCs you are setting the a very bad example

the likelihood of pork stuff left behind in the area a veggie colleague or a Jewish colleague or a Muslim colleague might want to cook their food.

That's an argument for cleaning communal areas, not prohibiting pork. I do have a responsibility to ensure my food doesn't contaminate yours, I don't have a responsibility to not eat it because your religion prohibits it.

to not consider others in a shared environment/microwave is just plain rude

You mean like "only the food I approve of can be cooked and eaten here"?

Wouldn’t bother me at all. But as soon as I seen the post I knew it would descend in to a religious matter

Just take in a load of hard boiled eggs in instead and peel them at your desk.

I still don't think scrambled eggs in a microwave smell.

My only complaint was when I heated a tin of vegetable soup - stinks apparently.

My point about religion is to do with the high risk of cross contamination with bacon spatter. Because bacon spatters in a microwave.
And it's just gross.

Oh do bugger off Slarti 🙄

Smelly foods are antisocial & highly bad mannered in a shared environment end of. Clearly some of you have been dragged up 🙄

Unless your office is full of virgins I wouldn’t worry.