Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

[luckysdadsway]

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 love the smell of a fry-up on the weekend! My neighbour quite often does them and I can smell them when I step outside.
I tend to do bacon and sausages in the oven when I have them, and that keeps smells down.
For the fried eggs, I just put the extractor fan on or open the window.

But in your own house, do what you like.

Cooked at home is always nicer though. In cafe's you always get undercooked bacon fat and cheap brown sauce.

But you said you feel 'mortified' if the house smells of bacon or sausage.

Do you not feel 'mortified' if the house smells of curry or garlic?

I think you need to consider this mortification you feel due to doing something as completely normal as cooking in your own home, and perhaps then you'll realise the problem is very much your own.

The question is, what are you going to do about it because it can't be very nice for your family.

Some of my best childhood memories are the smell of bacon wafting up from the kitchen on a Sunday morning while my Dad played his trumpet.

Allowed by who exactly? Are you expecting it to become law and the fry up police to come round inspecting homes?

Or are you not wanting a member of your family cooking them? It's a bit controlling if that is the case. As long as they clean up afterwards then people should be able to cook what they want in their own home

What is the big deal about the washing up? Apart from the usual post-meal washing up, plates, cups etc, the only additional item is a frying pan surely!

I always cook it with the kitchen door closed, window open and the extractor fan on. Stops the smells getting around the house. Otherwise I love the smell of a cooked breakfast. I don't fry it in butter though but olive oil which helps.

YABU! I have the cleanest most pristine kitchen and house….. but have no problem cooking this! Open windows , load the dishwasher as you go! I see no problem with it and im a bit obsessive!

I love the smell of a fried breakfast!
It's glorious.

And the taste, too. Absolutely my favourite meal.

How are you using so many pans. Bacon sausage, hash browns, black pudding, tomatoes and eggs can all be put under the grill. The eggs are the only thing that needs a pan (although I don’t do beans but the can be put in a bowl/mug in the microwave). The smell doesn’t linger if you open windows.

Who the hell grills bacon? 😖

It gets fried to a fatty crisp in my house and eggs are fried in butter - yep, it stinks but is amazing and keeps me full so is one of my favourite WFH lunches 😋

It's steak which kill me. "The butter has to be really hot, Mum".

We have RULES.
Close the door between kitchen and lounge.
Open the kitchen window and back door.
Move the coffee pods (which sit near the hob).
Cover the coffee machine with a t.towel.
Clean up properly afterwards - the hob, the hob surround, the splash back repaint the kitchen.
Wash the pan up properly ie don't just wave it under the cold tap.

It does make the house stink, but it's not a bad smell, it's just hot butter and steak and if people can't cope with a family home doing some cooking then they can stay away.

In DSs (16) defence, he does cook a really good steak. He often gets one if I'm out in the evening (it's just me and him at home most of the time) and is pretty good at all of the above.

OMG - so glad it is not just me that dislikes the smell!

...The smell of bacon as I fasten up my laces...

Part of the joy of a cooked breakfast is the smell wafting aroma of crisply fried bacon , I think people who are denying themselves that sensory indulgence are, quite frankly , missing out out on the foreplay ( and after glow) of a fry up orgasm.

I can't stand brocoli i love brocoli but my god it stinks.

I am with you OP I hate the smell of it. DH now makes his in the air fryer mostly which makes a massive difference. I am more of a bagel with banana/weetabix/porridge with fruit breakfast eater so the thought of eating a fried breakfast fills me with dread, I can feel the indigestion just thinking about it.

How do you all manage curries or things with garlic or chilli like stirfries?

I have never found a weirder thread.

Who the fuck is such a shit cook that the smells permeate the rest of the house for the next 24 hours?

My house doesn't stink all day when something is fried...

I make a fry up every Saturday morning for me and my 9 children! Yes the washing up is annoying but we all chip in and extractor fans are there for a reason 🙂

You're being unreasonable. As are any of your friends who would make you feel mortified for having the smell of fried food in you home. What's the problem, them thinking you are common? A fatty?
I bloody love a home cooked fry up, it doesn't generate more washing up than any other multi element meal like a roast, just shove it all in the dishwasher and have a cuppa.

If you don't want cooking smells get an extractor fan (or a better fan than the one you have).
And FFS don't cook kippers.
YABVVU by the way,

I agree op. But then I detest cooked breakfasts. Don’t see the point in them.

Have you ever had a piping hot dosa or parathas?