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!

We have an externally vented powerful extractor fan - no issues with food smells in the house.

The smell is OK when it's fresh, but in my experience it lingers way longer than other cooking smells.

I've pretty much given up having cooked breakfasts at home for this reason. I live in a fairly small apartment where the kitchen opens onto the main living room. It has no external windows and no door, so the smells just permeate the whole apartment, even with the extractor fan at full blast. Most cooking smells dissipate fairly quickly but anything fried really lingers and gets nasty after a while.

I cover my hair when cooking because it keeps the smell off it and stops any hair dropping in the food. I close the kitchen door but open the kitchen window even in Winter as we don't have an extractor hood, it does help and the greasy spoon aroma doesn't linger all day. Bake a cake or some bread afterwards and your kitchen will smell of that instead.
I really hate cooking a full breakfast so don't do it often now. I love eating it though 😋

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I'm assuming OP lives off ready meals.

Imagine the audacity of cooking a roast in their house.

Your home is supposed to be where you live, not some kind of Insta showpiece. Just live in it, cook in it etc. Open a window or two.

I'd forgotten about spatter guards - must get one as it's the bacon grease not the smell that puts me off.

If you don't like the smell just don't cook!
Personally I hate cooked brekkie elsewhere cos I do it to my own taste and specifications. Extra crispy, the right amount of butter on toast, the correct type of tomato and so on. I'd never be happy with someone else cooking it. It's not like the smell lasts for more than a day

Seems like a brilliant benefial method to ensure You&Yours consistently enjoy sumptuous marvelous meals
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I agree. Although I make most ‘fry up’ items in the oven anyway apart from eggs and potato scone.

I assume they don't have much RL stuff to complain about eg financially ok, family well and healthy, roof over their head, food (smelly!) on the table etc so they only have little things to complain about.
If my biggest worry was my house smelling of bacon I'd call it a good day!

I don’t fry food anymore however some of my best memories of my childhood was my dad frying up breakfast on the weekend.

My smoked haddock is defrosting at the moment for tomorrow's breakfast, as long as the hens across the road have done their part, I used a lot of eggs doing lemon drizzles for a fete and forgot to go over for more!
Put the fishy pan into cold water until you're ready to wash it, won't be smelly.
People talked about broccoli smelling, the green vegetables like that and cabbage etc only smell when they're over cooked, steam them, once they smell a bit they're done.

Im not bothered by the smell of fish at all and gassy veg does smell a bit, its not a problem for me though

Are you doing kedgeree?

Thank f*k for that… was thinking I was alone in my thoughts… I mean who give a f*k right??

That's what I was wondering. Tbh most of my food is based on onion garlic chilli or paprika.

And what about smell of fish?

Last night had a curry, night before seabass with chilli, garlic, ginger etc along with buttered leeks and mustard mash

No, I once had kedgeree in a fairly popular cafe in Holt and I was incredibly ill for a couple of days, not sure if it was the kedgeree but it put me off the idea!

Oh thats a shame, particularly for this thread because of the double whammy of fish and curry stinking the house out!! Mmmmm.

I love kedgeree, dish of Kings.

Yes exactly, we have curry tonight, love the smell!