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!

Gosh a fry-up leaves a lovely smell! So YABU. Open a window if you don’t like it.

Apparently the OP is only 'mortified' if visitors smell bacon and sausages 🤷‍♂️

I do bacon and eggs on the foreman grill, scramble eggs, hash brown in the air fryer, the only thing i fry is the mushrooms, however I would much prefer to go out for breakfast

This. You can cook most of it in the oven or air fryer.

Gosh a fry-up leaves a lovely smell! So YABU. Open a window if you don’t like it.

Morrisons fry up is vile. It is nothing like the joy of a proper fry up.

Christ, that's controlling.

If my partner tried to tell me what I could/couldn't cook and eat in my own home, I'd be ending the relationship.

If your wife wants to cook a fry-up, then that's up to her. I'm a vegetarian but my family aren't and I cook meat for them. The best thing to do to avoid lingering odours is to open a window in the kitchen and 'waft' the smoke out to keep it smelling fresh.

Telling other people what to cook/eat is controlling, in my opinion sir.

I think it depends on who 'anyone' is OP.

Is this your partner, or a bunch of teens getting up at midday?

You can't dictate who eats what really.

I know someone who never cooked fish for that reason.

But why would that mean nobody else in your house would/should be allowed to cook them?

How on earth would I have got teenagers out of bed of their own volition at the weekend without the delicious scent of smoked bacon wafting into their brains and making it worthwhile to be conscious before 1pm? And how would I have got them to eat a varied diet without them associating the smell of onions, garlic, spices and herbs with something lovely coming their way once it's all cooked?

(equally lighthearted).

Aroma is an essential part of appetite, taste and starting the digestive process. To just plonk a plate on a table with no anticipatory responses seems to me to be unlikely to result in as satisfactory a meal (and maybe the restaurant/dining concept of aperitifs, appetisers, amusee-bouche and the like arose specifically because not being able to smell food cooking affected appetite and pleasure - I wasn't about to do that for them, after all) - so the lovely smell of cooking performs its natural function.

I don’t understand what kind of monster objects to cooking smells. Waking up to the smell of bacon is AMAZING.
(Lighthearted, mostly)

Open windows, clean up afterwards.

What sort of control freakery is this??

Please tell me you don't have a partner and DC?

Some bacon can smell foul but some can smell pleasant - smoked I think smells better.

Another suggestion to the OP would be to ensure you have a heavy-weight kitchen door that can 'lock' the odours in to that room.

My youngest DC seems entirely incapable of having cereal for breakfast or a sandwich for lunch. Sometimes they cook pasta with garlic for lunch. I cannot tell you how much it irks me. I know IABU but the house continually smells of garlic or sausages. I won’t miss that when they depart for uni next month.

I love the smell of cooking bacon wafting from numerous houses on a Sunday morning walk with my dog.

@NeverDropYourMooncup my eldest used to appear like a ghost on a Sunday morning if there was bacon cooking appear out of nowhere 😀

We tend to have a "fry" for our evening meal - last night was the night - it was lovely

Call it a fry but its all grilled bar the eggs and beans

If you have kitchen windows. I didn't ina previous property

I wonder if the people with the smell issues have an open plan kitchen diner family room type layout and/or a large kitchen. Ours is tiny so a shut door, good extractor and if necessary opening the window or door to the garden clears the air in no time.

I'm also surprised no one mentioned a spatter guard.

These days I do the bacon in the airfryer and everything else on the flat side of a cast iron griddle that sits over two burners. But that's not so much the smell as to reassure veggie DH that the meat wasn't close to the non-meat.

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I agree, but like you my family probably don’t! My MIL loves a huge fried breakfast, no windows open, the whole house smells of fat. I hate the way it then sticks to clothes and hair. I don’t want to go out for the day smelling greasy!

I think if you grill bacon, sausages etc it isn’t as bad. And ventilate the kitchen well!

I cook the bacon in a pan and use that for the eggs. Everything else in the grill and microwave. Just need 1 pan

Are you cooking in lard or something? I use a spray of olive oil in the pan and just cook bacon and eggs. Good quality bacon, so it's not actually greasy. It only smells amazing.