Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

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I know I'll get flamed for this, but AIBU to feel so completely annoyed when anyone suggests cooking sausages, bacon or at worst a full fried breakfast at home?

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed a friend breakfast or the odd bacon sandwich in a cafe but absolutely not at home.

I can't cope with the awful cooking smell that comes from them. It sticks to everything including my hair which means I can smell it all day. The smell lingers throughout the house all day and we have any visitors I feel mortified by it.

A fried breakfast is even worse because not only do you get the awful smell but the amount of washing up that comes along with it. The need to use so many pans!

I agree - better to have a cooked breakfast in a cafe and let someone else deal with it!

I’m with you OP. It stinks the house out for the whole day.
It's worse on a campsite when the greasy waft of fat and eggs travels through the air and people leave bits of egg in the communal sink.

It's the frying imo. It's totally unnecessary. You can cook it in the oven or air fryer. I do the sausages, bacon, hash browns, mushrooms and tomato in the air fryer. I make scrambled egg in a pan on the hob and heat the beans in the microwave. No horrible smells.

We have cooked breakfast sometimes at the weekend. We grill sausage bacon and tomatoes. Poach or occasionally fry eggs. It doesn’t smell bad. But frying cheap bacon / sausages can be a bit stinky.

Cook them in the air fryer if you don’t like the smell…

I think if you don’t like it then don’t do it in your own home, but YABU to suggest that others shouldn’t. Some don’t mind the smell and can eat whatever they like in their own home.

I don't agree. If I have a bit of bacon and a egg it keeps me full till lunch/mid afternoon. I tend to buy bacon medallions. Or I have smoked salmon and scrambled egg..... Quite healthy compared to the sugar found in cereal.... However I don't cook in butter/oil as you don't need to with the ninja pans
However I do 8-10 hours of exercise a week so tend to need lots of protein (particularly after park run on a Saturday morning)...

The only part of a full English that gets fried in our house are the eggs. Even so, we close all the doors and open the window, that generally stops any odours getting into the rest of the house.

Do you only cook very bland food with no smell, usually?

YABU. A fried breakfast is the food of the gods, and if the smell is lingering you need a better ventilation system in your kitchen.

Good extractor quite helps.

Agree...I bought a flavoured nutty porridge recently....I weighed out a portion...it barely filled half the cereal bowl and came to 600 calories. I can do a cooked breakfast for far fewer calories and yes I agree, keeps you much fuller than cereal

thats why we use our camp cooker and cook bacon outside, sausages are cooked in oven and frozen which can be microwaved when wanted

We have a decent extractor fan.

Quite! We have a good extractor, but failing that, open a window!

I have never agreed with a thread more

One of the neighbours was cooking a fry up yesterday, it was smelling great.

Pleased to see some agree with me, as my family think I'm an ogre for it.

We grill the sausages and bacon and use the extractor but it still seems to linger! Maybe it's more in my nostrils than anything else.

Get an air fryer and do the sausages/bacon in there. Then offer scrambled eggs/toast and maybe beans in the microwave.

This site is nuts sometimes, try opening a window.

DH cooked one this morning, bacon and black sausage in air fryer and scrambled egg on hob....no one at work has mentioned my hair smelling of bacon....

It’s the grease spattering everywhere that is so disgusting.

Another one to say as @bridgetreilly - if the smell lingers all day even in your hair then you don't have enough ventilation in your kitchen. Do you have a proper fan over the hob? Also if the pans are washed pretty quickly afterwards that gets rid of a lot of the smell. I think you are being a bit unreasonable saying no-one should cook bacon or sausages in your house if it the smell that's the issue. A chicken casserole or ragu sauce will smell. I actually like most cooking smells whilst they are happening and if you clean up properly afterwards in a well ventilated room it shouldn't be a cause for mortification. But what do I know ? 😂

We grill ours just fry the eggs then open the back door this will.blow your mind op we occasionally have breakfast for dinner ! I can safely say it doesn't cling for days.

Yes, this. Our house will temporarily smell of whatever has been cooked, whether that’s a curry or a tomatoey pasta sauce.

I hate cooked breakfast, but there are things called windows. Close the kitchen door, open the windows, and burn a chef candle or something, problem solved. How would your hair smell if you are not even in the room?

The person cooking should be the one doing the dishes anyway. If someone in the house wants to make themselves a cooked breakfast, let them be.