In search of the perfect cooked breakfast!

singlehouseholder

I agree with Spendless, the formeanator is the only way to go, they are the dogs!! My bloke's bacon and sausages has never been easier to cook- i'm a veggy so I put my veggy sausages in the oven with a couple of waffles for about 20mins before I get the meat on the go. You'd be surprised at the amount of fat that comes out of your sausages and bacon- a friend of mine used to put the bacon fat in his beans, not for me, but apparently it tastes good...I'd invest in a geroge foreman- or a copy one, you can get them for about a tenner now, they're ideal, especially with the BBQ season coming up- perfoect for british weather, bbq indoors!!
Cooked brekky, hmm,pure induilgence on a sunday morning- me gobs watering....

WeirdoMagnet

I'd do the sausies in the oven, so I knew they were done. Add the Hash Browns about half way thru. Then turn the oven right down, so they are just keeping warm. Warm plates in oven too. Then I'd fry the bacon in a non-stick pan (no oil/butter, as it'll produce it's own). Toms halved and fried in the same pan as the bacon if you have room. Mushrooms in a saucepan with a bit of butter. Beans in microwave. Dish up, then use bacon pan to fry eggs (or microwave if scrambled).

I guess it is down to timing, and if you do it regularly it's difficult to say how long each thing takes as you are so used to it! Maybe you could do it how Nigella does her big Sunday Roast - write down the time each item takes to cook, then list it in order so you know what you are doing when. So it'd go something like...

9.15am - Put Sausages in oven
9.35am - Put Hash Browns in oven
...
...
...
...
10.00am - Serve

I'm starving now!

lily_the_pink

I grill everything except the eggs and mushrooms - start off with sausages (give them a 10 minute head start), then put the tomato and bacon on. If doing for more than 2, would do some on George Foreman but personally prefer grilled. Mushrooms I would start when I have turned the bacon, and leave the eggs until the last minute - I tend to have these cooking away while I am serving up the rest. I dont do hash browns but I would grill these too even if the instructions say oven bake (I have done in the past).

Only do this occaisionally now, so use really good bacon and sausage as this makes all the difference (particularly the sausage which I will only buy from my butchers now). Ditto eggs - makes a real difference having good eggs as they actually taste of egg.

leonie_2

I agree with Lily the pink about the quality of materials.

I make a fry up using home made sausages.. all meat and I know whats gone into them. Thick sliced bacon from a butcher. Eggs fresh from my hens that morning and a huge piece of homemade bread!

I dont use a microwave for beans etc, I prefer to heat them on the hob, and everything is cooked in big cast iron pans.

A real treat!

MATH

We have a 'cooked' breakfast every day when we are at the coast. I can no longer call it fried because due to zelous calorie counting very little is actually fried anymore LOL

We don't eat sausage at chez MATH so I never serve that, we usually have (after cereal of course LOL).

Bacon cooked on a rack in the micro, no added fat and all the bacon fat drains away. It really does come out brown and crispy.

Eggs I poached or scrambled.

Toast (this replaces the fired bread or hash brown I used to make).

Baked beans and chopped tomatoes.

Mushrooms, potato cubes and onion slices cooked in the micro to soften and sauted in a little oil.

Icemaiden

Don't forget the Black pudding or is it us northerns that only include this???

soba

shammyjack wrote:

I have a huge double sided cast iron griddle plate that spans the full width of the oven top covering 2 gas rings, one side is flat the other is ribbed for steaks etc .

Have to agree with the cast iron skillet. We've got one that spans two burners and a smaller round one (about 10") that we use most of the time. It's the bees knees for breakfasts, and we also take it camping with us. It cooks fantastic steaks and brekkies, in fact it's our most used kitchen item. Perhaps it's greatest plus point is that it doesn't need washing, just running under how water.

Noozan

We have grill ups in our house! I have a large grillpan that's the same size as the grill itself.

Put sausages in first and let them get a 5 min head start.
Put beans in a jug, in microwave, ready to heat later.
Bread sitting in toaster. Fill kettle with water.
Add hash browns, sliced haggis and sliced sausage to grill pan.
Add field mushrooms, dotted with butter. (Or if I'm using small mushrooms, they get sliced and done is frying pan with butter)
Cut a cross in top of whole tomato, grind of black pepper - onto grillpan.
When everything is nearly cooked, I shove it all to one side of the grill pan and add back bacon.
Fire on oil for eggs. Flick kettle on.
Heat beans. Pop bread down. Fry eggs, basting the top as I hate the tops "naked" lol
Dish up whilst Dh makes tea/coffee and pours out OJ.

Shamish

Mines has to be

Polony,
Sausages,
Black Pudding,
Hash Brown,
Heinz Beans,
Thick Sliced smoked Bacon,
Fried Egg,
Lorne Sausage
And my favourite Dumpling

All cooked at the same time on my massive George Foreman Griddle and Grill

Beans in the micro and hash brown in the Oven

dora37

I do this for my family of 5 quite frequently and over the years have got it down to a fine art....is easier if somebody else is around to set the table etc....

Sausages in the grill (Set the table)
Turn sausages and add bacon to the grill
Mushrooms in saucepan with frylight and knob of butter towards the end
Pop bread in the toaster
Get plates out
Open beans and put beans in saucepan
Put tomato/black pudding on grill and turn bacon.
Turn on saucepan with beans
Turn grill down
Fry eggs using frylight.

All done.....now I'm starving!!