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...

Ooops - Vegans!!!!

My workmates and I reheat a wide range of delicious smelling curries in our office microwave so we wouldn’t have a problem with that.

I’m a banker though so the entire office is haram before you even start worrying about residual bacon molecules in the microwave.

Duchess, who exactly is stopping you from eating food ??

Been thoughtful to others you share space & microwave with doesn't mean you can't eat 🙄

😂 At the office full of virgins (I nearly typoed bourbons there)

Im in amazement at this thread... . Its there a list of acceptable smelling foods to go by? Who sets the standards? Is all very unspoken and bizarre to me but maybe I'm too relaxed. Any workplace I've ever been in with a microwave is used for Food regardless of its smell.

Op I would cook the bacon at home and ding to reheat. It would keep in the fridge 3 to 4 days cooked so cook a batch at a time. If you reheat with a lid draped over meeting a bit of air out then no contamination

Wonder who cleans up after all these posters who heat stinky spattery food in the works microwave?
Maybe the elves?

Smelly food in an enclosed space, especially first thing in the morning is gross. 😬

You cover splattery food before cooking it, obviously.
The OP is planning on using a specially designed fully enclosed box so definitely won’t be splattering.

I'm vegetarian and the bacon wouldn't bother me at all.

Rashers of bacon is a normal English thing to say, isn't it?

Is there a list of acceptable office foodstuffs someone might like to share?

In my last office there was a canteen so I frequently had things like salads with tuna and/or eggs, but have deprived myself in new office for the last 18 months. If MN could tell me whether that’s deemed acceptable or not, I’d be grateful. Ta.

Unacceptable.

Porridge, cheese sandwich (not toasted), ready salted crisps, apples, all biscuits and cakes. That's it.

I've learnt so much today - fish is flammable and virgins and microwaved bacon must never mix.

Is there a list of acceptable office foodstuffs someone might like to share?

Anything that doesn't stink. Although I guess it does depend on the office. Our communal kitchen is completely open plan and right next to people's desks (mine!). Smelly food is distracting and irritating. Non-smelly food isn't.

For the avoidance of doubt, I have no problem with garlic, bacon, fish pie, curry etc when relaxing in a restaurant with friends. It's just when I'm up to my eyes in spreadsheets and trying to stay sane that the pungent mixture of all the above wafting around my desk makes me a little edgy.

YANBU food smells. That's okay. I used to work with a person who cooked eggs every morning and ate them at his desk. They smelled rank, but it lasted about 10 minutes and I would have been unreasonable to protest. There are things I'd rather people didn't do that I still think they should be able to do. It's called the world not revolving around me.

Some gems on here :

We banned toast after some people couldn't deal with their own crumbs.

It means nobody who keeps kosher or halal can use the microwave.

^

Why not?

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 🙄

Do you realise how arrogant you sound? Not only do you get to tell people what they can and can't eat you get to boss people about on forum threads? You need a reality check

Slarti you seem to have issues around over sensitivity & reading between lines & seeing thing that are not there. I suggest you see someone about that.

Good night 😘

Off piste slightly but anyone else love the word 'rashers???

It's all cosy and autumnal

If someone is so fastidious about their halal/kosher/vegetarian principles that they can’t use a microwave in which a fully sealed box containing bacon has been heated then they’re not going to be happy about it being used to cook the next user’s pea and ham/cream of non-halal chicken/unspecified meat pasty either.

Yes some people do care that much but they’re unlikely to be fine with a communal microwave anyway. If it’s a fully vegetarian kitchen and the OP hasn’t actually mentioned that then yes SIBU.

I can’t imagine any vegetarian, vegan, Muslim or Jewish colleagues being happy about it

Er what now? You think work microwaves should only be used for vegan kosher halal food? So like, no food at all then?

A work kitchen with a microwave is there for staff to use to make their food. If you don't like it, talk to management to remove the facilities, don't whine when people use the facilities provided for them.

Don't make the microwave messy and smelly- it's for everyone. Why is that so hard?

Don't make the microwave messy and smelly- it's for everyone. Why is that so hard?

Why is it so hard for you (and others) to understand that you can clean the microwave after you use it, and pretty much all food makes a smell.

If you ban any food from a microwave with a smell, you are banning all food from the microwave.

rockin telling people to bugger off because they don't agree with you, thinking your opinion is so important that after you've announced it it's "end of", telling people they've been dragged up for using a microwave. I think everyone knows who's got issues

and if you band all food that smells from the m/w, its not for everyone, its for no-one