To ask you to remind me how to make a decent fry up?

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I used to be able to do a delicious full cooked breakfast for every one in house share, plus whoever had stayed over, popped by etc still hungover and quite literally with my eyes half closed: eggs, bacon, sausages, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes - the lot. Learnt by watching my mum and never timed anything just sort of knew what to do when.
Didn’t make them for years because got massive and didn’t exactly fit into weight watchers and when kids were small too much hassle but they’re now really up for it and like to do it as a weekend treat every now and then.
Only problem: they are absolutely crap! My pans are better than the ancient ones we used to have, I’ve no idea where it’s going wrong: timing / too much oil, Christ knows, but sausages invariably seem over done whether on grill or pan, The eggs are all black underneath and round the side, I panic about the eggs and bacon and sausage crisping and forget the beans which then dry out… the end result is grim.
So. Starting from scratch and zero assumptions and W details eg how much oil and when put what on etc - how do you do a decent fry up please?! Thank you!

It’s a timings game.

I prefer cooking bacon and sausages in the oven, less greasy and you’ve got more time to play with before they go over.

Mushrooms and beans can be started early, similar time to when you put the meat in the oven and then kept warm. Eggs and toast are the last minute things to get done, when everything else is already to be plated.

Hmm I do it differently.

1. sausages in oven on a tray with sliced mushrooms
2. Line a glass Pyrex dish with bacon rashers- into the oven when the sausages are half done (10-12 mins).
3. after the bacon is cooked but not crispy, I bring all the dishes out. Tip the sausages, chopped mushrooms into the Pyrex dish lined with bacon.

Then crack the eggs into the dish on top of the mushrooms, sausages and bacon. Back in the oven until the eggs bake! You can either scramble the eggs or just crack and bake them like fried eggs.

Slice and serve a bit like a crust less quiche, with baked beans and toast.

I put sausages in frying pan to brown for a couple of minutes, then put them in oven with bacon and tomatoes halved.

Baked beans go in microwave, 2 minutes for large tin.

Eggs, I use a lot of oil, in small frying pan, so eggs are covered and cook on medium heat and spoon over hot oil over yolk.

Mushrooms, chop up small and cook with 50/50 oil and butter, they only take a minute.

Toast, I half cook and leave till eggs are on, then finish them off.

It’s the dishing up, I have trouble with, getting it all out and hot, bacon gets cold quick.

I put sausages in the oven first (25-30 mins). Then when they're about 10 mins from being done, I fry the bacon (tsp or so of oil, or 8-9 sprays if it's a spray bottle), then put it on a plate and loosely cover with foil - if sausages are very nearly done, I might put the plate into the bottom of the oven to keep hot. Then use the same pan for fried eggs, use more oil (maybe 2 tbsp, depending on size of pan), I try not to get the pan tooooo hot. I do beans in the microwave, empty into a container at the beginning so you can just switch it on right at the end, it'll only take 2 mins or so. Pop the toast down at the same time, and let everyone butter their own to save you from doing it.

I don't do tomatoes or mushrooms, but if I did, I would put the tomatoes under the grill (or if being fancy, I'd put some vine tomatoes in the oven with the sausages for 20 mins or so), and maybe fry the mushrooms with some butter in a small pan at the same time as the eggs were cooking.

This is all so helpful - how much and what kind of oil does everyone use or just bacon fat?

I cook ours totally differently to the posters so far!
I grill as much as I can. Line the grill pan with tinfoil under the rack.
Turn grill on to highest heat

Use best quality ingredients you can afford

I place the sausages in a row together on the grill rack.
I slice pudding, black & white & nestle that on the rack alongside the sausages. Then add as many bacon slices as will fit. These curl / shrink as they're cooked so i add more as space frees up.
Put under hot grill
Then I put beans in a small saucepan & v gently heat them
To cook the eggs I put a small knob of butter in a small non stick egg pan. Melt the butter gently to coat the bottom of the pan. Then crack 2 eggs in & cover with a lid. We have a glass lid which is v handy as you can see when the eggs are cooked to your liking.

Keep a close eye on the meat under the grill & keep rotating it all. As things cook remove & put on a warm plate which I keep in the oven at a v v low temp.

Once most of the meat is cooked & on the plate I start cooking the eggs & putting toast in the toaster etc

Have all your plates etc ready to go

If we're having mushroom I peel, slice finely & cook on a pan in butter & black pepper

If we want tomatoes I cut them in half, remove the stalk hard bit. Season with salt & pepper & oregano & grill once the meat is in the oven being kept warm.

I never ever use oil for eggs as it makes the whites grey. Only ever butter.

Lots of hot buttery toast, fresh orange juice & fresh coffee.

Sometimes we have this for dinner & then I cook frozen hash browns/ oven chips to add to it.

Oven bake sausages and hash browns grill the bacon (as some like crispy some not) make both scrambled and fried eggs (microwave and pan) and turn button mushrooms in butter in a ban. Baked beans in microwave. Very occasionally we have chopped fruit too.

Today we are having smashed avocado w smoked salmon on rye sourdough with a poached egg

And yes agree butter.for the eggs not oil

Depends how many it's for. Just me and DH then I do most of it in my giant frying pan. I use rapeseed oil. I do eggs in olive oil (not extra virgin as that should not be heated) in teeny tiny little frying pans so they hold their shape and I don't have to deal with the octopus effect..

For bigger groups most of it goes in the oven.

I used to own a B&B and I still curse the bastards who would ask for scrambled eggs

Is it still a fry up if it's done in the oven/ under the grill?

Buy decent quality sausages and bacon.

Sausages and hash browns in the oven, mushrooms in the oven with some salted butter and white pepper.

Bacon in the oven nearer the end depending how well done you want it.

Beans in a mug in the microwave

Fried eggs in a frying pan on a medium high heat with a pinch of salt and pepper over the top.

One the eggs are done serve onto warm plates with the sausages, hash browns and bacon and tip the bacon fat and mushrooms into the hot frying pan to finish of for about 30seconds

Add mushrooms and beans to plate.

Devour.

YES!!!! jesus I've just remembered I used to use butter not oil....god i've lost my tiny mind over the last few years...this thread is a gift thanks so much!

I don’t do sausages, instead, I use sliced black and white pudding as they cook much more quickly than sausages.
I add halved tomatoes, quickly fried, instead of beans.
I use olive oil, rather than butter, to fry the eggs, as I like the higher temperature it cooks at. I undercook the first few eggs, so that they finish cooking whilst keeping warm in the oven.
Using two pans speeds everything up.

I half tomatoes, put in a dish with s&p, olive oil and some basil and cooked for about half an hour 180 fan.
Sausages on a tray, in the oven for half an hour.
Sliced mushrooms in a pan with a tablespoon or so of olive oil, sprinkle of salt a few grinds of pepper, on high until they start squeaking, they then start releasing their water so as keep them on high until the water goes and they start getting some colour. When they are the golden colour I want them to be I add some dried herbs de Provence and a squeeze of lemon. I put them in a dish covered with foil and put under the grill shelf as it keeps things warm there.
Baked beans in a pan on the small ring on low with a diffuser so they heat up slowly. I put them in a dish and do the same as the mushrooms.
I then cook the black pudding for 2 or 3 mins on each side, and put on a plate to keep warm.
Bacon on next and they go on the plate with the black pudding to keep warm.
Lastly, the eggs. Don't have the pan on too high and you can always turn it down if the edges are crisping and blowing too quickly. Use a spoon to spoon over the oil over the tops so the whites cook through and the yolk stays runny.
Hopefully that'll help you. This is how am do mine for approx 6 people but I do it for dinner not for breakfast.

Don’t do sausages here.

Bacon, tomatoes on grill tray in oven
Beans with smoked paprika in small pan
Mushrooms with garlic butter in small pan
Eggs poached using oxo egg poachers
Toast with butter.

If eggs are black underneath before being cooked on top, you have the heat on too high.