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!

Sounds really wonderful warmhearted & welcoming 💚🤗💚

This is why UK food has developed a reputation for being bland and homogenous

No longer do we use smoked haddock, kippers, potted shrimp, steak and kidney, liver and bacon, faggots, much seafood and fish despite being an island nation, mainly because of smell.

Open the window!!

What the heck are you doing that makes it smell bad?

I mean I love going out for a fried breakfast or bacon cob and don't often do one at home but that's more about avoiding waste (or being tempted to have one three days in a row because there are six rashers of bacon between two people). Plus the washing up.

We love a cooked breakfast but my husband always cooks outside as he hates the smell of cooking. 🍳

Yes I presume it's just down to individuals tastes, personal likes /dislikes
Some will love the smell whiles others loath
Bit like Marmite, you either love or hate it - I guess, as with all things in life
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Now, hold on. 6 rashers between 2 people, means 1 days worth of breakfast.

How do you stretch that over 3 days?

I just hate the grease and smeech this causes. If I'm making sausages and bacon etc I'll just put them in the oven and I'm still amazed at how much fat is extracted out of them. I always open a window as can't bear it and I don't eat meat myself, just cook it for dh and kids occasionally. YANBU Also the washing up is made harder by all the grease and it never feels like you can get anything properly clean without dousing it in boiling water and shed-load of washing up liquid.

You cook your bacon in the garden! 😳😳

I cook mackerel to get rid of the smell of a fried breakfast.

Then I cook curry to get rid of the smell of mackrel.

Then I cook a fried breakfast to get rid of the curry smell.

Splatter possibilities, I get.
Aromas, I don't.

Fish smells that linger are so much worse

Have you heard yourself? 😆

There must be a greasy spoon nearby or find a truckers layby, plenty of sausages there 🤣

Why would anyone's hair smell of bacon if they had a fried breakfast - which is much lower in calories and sugar than e.g. cereals, and keeps you happily full (so no snacking) till lunchtime? Unless colleagues go round sniffing each others' hair?

I don’t understand why grilling apparently reeks but air frying doesn’t. Isn’t an air fryer just a little grill?

Not allowed??

I’m not a fan, but about once a month at the weekend my DH will do this for us. Yes it’s stinky for a bit but then subsides. I don’t particularly like it but it’s not a regular occurrence thank goodness.

YABU

We have breakfast for lunch most weekends but bacon and sausages very rarely due to nitrates. I often do cooked breakfast in the week when I'm trying to eat healthier. I use the oil spray and a silicone brush to very lightly oil a decent frying pan. I grill the top of my fried eggs rather than flip them. Tomatoes I do in the air fryer or grill. Mushrooms usually fry in a nob of butter then quickly wilt/fry the spinach. As a treat I add hash browns done in the air fryer. I will do sliced halloumi in the same frying pan as the egg.

I love veggie cooked breakfast.

Cafe cooked breakfast only OK. Really prefer my own but friends cooking one (often with bacon and sausage) when I'm hungover also appreciated.

I'm always amazed by the number of Mumsnetters who are very sensitive to smells, though. Mumsnet seems to have much higher proportion than the general population of people who react very dramatically to everyday food smells, and/or have to go to bed with a migraine or get an asthma attack if they sit next to some who wears perfume

This. The things people get preoccupied with and upset over on here sometimes are breathtakingly trivial.

Open the window. Its just not worth getting that excited over.

This is the way!

What about breakfast for tea?

You are quite right six rashers is not 3 days, the packs are bigger 🤦‍♀️

I am not at delicate sparrow who can only eat one rasher at a time. I do hate food waste though

I like the smell of a cooked breakfast.. but I do have a good extractor fan and I don’t have an air fryer

Lingering food smells is a sign of poor indoor air quality. Good ventilation doesn’t allow food smells to hang around all day.

I disagree, it's so easy to make at home that I hate paying for it out. I'd rather pay for things I can't make as well myself

Just grill it in the oven then and open the windows. Why are you embarrassed by the smell? Do you think it tells guests something about you?

I grew up with my dad cooking kippers for breakfast. I woke up to the smell more times than I care to remember. The smell of bacon is heaven in comparison