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...

I guess our office is laid back / old fashioned from some of these comments. George Foreman grill regularly used to cook bacon / sausage / burgers in the morning - we even occasionally all have bacon / sausage / egg rolls in the morning cooked by a couple of staff members and we pay and money goes to charity. Kitchen also has windows that open. Everyone free to heat anything up at lunch - and fish suppers frequently bought on Fridays.

Do you work with any vegans or veggies

"How do some of you cope in day to life Jesus Christ."
By being considerate of all my colleagues and not assuming my smelly tastes suit everyone.
I suppose it depends on the culture of your office. We are expected not to have anything in the microwave that stinks the whole office out.
Maybe some places of work are ok with that. Maybe some gobshite personalities in the office decide what is ok for them - open/close windows etc - and assume everyone agrees with them/don't care if people disagree.

It wouldn't bother me but seems it would bother alot of people so yabu . Does seem a bit extreme.

People at my work warm up quite complicated curry and various side dishes in the microwave but that's at lunch time so I guess people are more ready for cooked food smells by then.

Oh my, people who are kind & thoughtful of others make for a miserable world

yes its so kind and thoughtful to berate people for using a microwave to heat food, and telling them they are bastards for doing so. You're a true peach.

I hope you had bacon for breakfast today op. And that it was luvverly.

We have 300 people who have lunch hour/half hour over about 2 hours. And 3 microwaves. Let's say only 100 people want to use them over the course of 2 hours. I haven't got time to stand behind waiting for some diddums to cook their bacon in the microwave, stink the place out and , maybe, clean the microwave up after themselves (or leave it for someone else to do). We also have colleagues who don't clean up their shit that has stuck to the toilet bowl. And this is the ladies loo.
So my perspective is a little different to someone in an office of 5.

haven't got time to stand behind waiting for some diddums to cook their bacon in the microwave, stink the place out and , maybe, clean the microwave up after themselves (or leave it for someone else to do)

But you think the person behind you magically has time for you to cook your stinky shit and not clean up after yourself? You're no different to the bacon cooker, except you are more self important and rude.

Oh my, people who are kind & thoughtful of others make for a miserable world

It's not kind and thoughtful to impose vegetarianism/halal/kosher on people who don't subscribe to those philosophies. If you're a vegetarian doing this it's the opposite of thoughtful, it's selfish, it's saying only your own preferences matter, that you are more important than others.

Treating everyone with kindness and respect would require a live and let live attitude, which you certainly don't have. It would also require engaging with people without berating and belittling them, again something you don't seem able to do. Perhaps heed your own advice first eh?

But you think the person behind you magically has time for you to cook your stinky shit and not clean up after yourself? You're no different to the bacon cooker, except you are more self important and rude."

Which is why I maybe reheat non stinky leftovers from last night's meal or avoid the whole microwave drama and have sandwiches or use a flask.
Can't bear entitled babies at work.

Someone using an office microwave to microwave food at the office is an entitled baby?

Someone taking over the microwave, stinking it out and then wondering why people are pissed off ... is an entitled baby.

Ah yes Slarti you know me so well from a few words on the net. Clever you.🙄😂

By your reckoning it's perfectly okay to go & smelly fart to your hearts desire in company, because your own shit don't stink, so it's perfectly acceptable to inflict it on others & if they don't like, they are the unreasonable ones. What a way to think eh🙄

Being thoughtful & kind, isn't doing as you please & fuck everyone else who doesn't buy into the same doctrine as yourself, but recognising that we are all different, for various reasons. Just because you like the smell of something, if that same smell is potentially offensive to others, be it for religious, cultural reason, vegetarianism or whatever, then if you are kind & thoughtful you make allowances for that & don't inflict it on others unless you are sure they don't mind.

As above, I love hot mackerel, but it can stink, just as bacon can, so I would not dream of inflicting it on an office full of co workers. Pretty sad you can't get that & prefer to twist things to suit your own agenda, but I suppose someone has to be the thoughtless git

I had a Nordic colleague who used to cook/heat all sorts of fish concoctions on the communal microwave and when management requested him to stop doing it (after many complaints), he played the racial card and complained back that he's being discriminated as it's his heritage to eat these type of (fucking stinky) food! Management tread carefully after that.

Maybe a thermos flask/lunchbox might be useful to some people. Cook it home but you can still eat hot food that you like.

@Ironfloor269 Maybe i should try that. Rashers are part of my irish heritage i reckon.

@Luxembourgmama - loads of senior management at my place are Irish decent - same as me. You would get a firm "away and shite" if you tried to pull that stunt.

I’m vegan and despise the smell of bacon but would still use the microwave after providing it looked clean. My food is in a lidded container so not sure what the issue is as I assume that’s how most people cook.

I don’t have a great sense of smell so never notice people eating a bacon roll in the office, which I presume happens as the canteen sells them. I do however bring in my leftovers for lunch which I assume smells, but our kitchen is a seperate room so I assume it isn’t too bad in the office.

There's some serious hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness on this thread

bellinisurge
You describe people as entitled babies simply for having the audacity to use a communal microwave. Yet, you say you haven't got time to wait for other people to cook their food and consider other people using a communal facility as "taking over". You are displaying the very qualities you accuse others of.

RockinHippy to quote an earlier post of mine, my attitude is one of "live and let live". I'm sure that's a phrase you're aware of and know the meaning of, so interpreting that as "fuck everyone else" is batshit, and yet you accusing me of twisting things for an agenda!

At the risk of repeating myself, forcing your own values and dietary requirements on other people is selfish and it is quite obviously not reasonable to expect an office full of people to adhere to vegetarianism or Jewish or Muslim dietary codes that they do not subscribe to. It isn't "thoughtful" to do that, it's thoughtful to understand that everyone is different, with differing tastes and belief systems, and that while I may not enjoy your food or agree with it's production or like the smell of it, I wouldn't try to stop you from eating it, because the flip side to that is that you would return the same courtesy (or not) towards me. You know, treat other people how you want to be treated. Live and let live.

Which is why I maybe reheat non stinky leftovers from last night's meal or avoid the whole microwave drama and have sandwiches or use a flask

You may think they are not stinky, I'm sure someone else disagrees.

Teh only entitled baby is YOU.

@RockinHippy

Oh my, people who are kind & thoughtful of others make for a miserable world

No, but people who yip & yowl over every petty thing make it a miserable fucking world!! Mind your own business (if you can)...

Enjoy your bacon OP.

Cant you take stuff in that is filling / protein but doesn't smell?
Cold sausages to make a sausage sandwich
Boiled eggs
Avacado
Beans in those little snap pot things on toast wouldn't smell much

Jeez, @SlartiAardvark , you really don't like people disagreeing with you or having different working environments to you, do you?

"You describe people as entitled babies simply for having the audacity to use a communal microwave"
Nope.
I think anyone who takes over the communal microwave and makes it stink is an entitled baby.
I rarely use ours because it's too busy and I don't need the drama on my downtime.