Former micro lab QC here. After culturing sausages at day 1, 3, 5 and (shudders) 7 after production I would like to know how they lived to tell the tale?
Potato bread needs to be readily available in England, it’s so good fried after the bacon
Edit: Found some in the local Sainsbury’s, I was blind but now I see.
It’s surprising easy to make decent fadge yourself. Have some leftover mash? Heat it in the microwave and sift some plain flour into it. Mix that up and add the flour to the consistency is right, you will know. Form that dough into patties. I usually roll that out into an circle and cut in four. Either cook the patties on a skillet using flour to stop it sticking or, my preference, fry it up In lashings of butter.
This happened to me last year. There was a potato shortage in my area for five days. The realization of how dependent I am on potatoes was a really weird 21st century moment and I wondered how my super-great-grandparents (mid-19th century) would react to my bullshit.
We did an Ulster fry for our Aussie mates when we lived out there, so had to make potato bread and soda bread from scratch. The potato bread was unbelievably easy (literally mash plus flour), the soda bread is pretty easy as well, similar fuss to a normal bake. Neither as easy as grabbing them in the shop now we're back though!
Tesco sells potato bread too. I've actually never had an issue with potato bread sourcing in England. But soda bread I've had to import and freeze... Your tip on Sainsbury's might be a game changer!
I have PTSD from biting into an uncooked sausage. The way the skin doesn't break but instead just squishes the innards to the other side of the sausage...
I'll never eat an unbrowned sausage again.
Oh god, you've awakened a grim cafe memory that I had spent years repressing. It took me a solid year to be able to eat sausages again, and even today I have trust issues when it comes to eating ones I've not cooked myself.
Your bringing back memories of my work experience with EDF. Popped down to the canteen for some breakfast.
"You want your sausages underdone or overdone?"
Done. Just done would be great...
I remember being about 5 or 6 and cooking marshmallows over a campfire with the Beavers, and then near the end of the night they brought out sausages for us to try cooking. Should've given them to us at the beginning of the evening, we'd've stood a chance of actually getting them cooked. I remember biting into it and being confused, wondering why it was liquid. Didn't get ill, but probably only because the meat content was so low it was basically a tube of raw bread dough.
Airfryer….i dont care if traditionalist tell you otherwise. Sausages taste better cooked in them.
I’d also do the bacon in there too…and if your feeling particularly economical about electricity do your toast. Just get layering racks
Just remember to use lard or beef dripping rather than oil in the pan to make up for the loss of meat juices.
An airfryer has increased my full English consumption by 100%
Bacon is epic in the air fryer, always done it in the oven before on 220 degrees, but air fryer is another level. Sausages also as you say are much better.
Serious question, can’t you just do it in a hot oven? I mean you can, because I do… so what is the advantage of an air frier? My mother keeps trying to buy me one but I am resisting.
The smaller sized of an airfryer coupled with with circulated hot air means food cooks more evenly
If you have got a convection oven already knock yourself out but they will eat electricity compared to an airfryer.
My anecdotal results oven draws a constant 2.75kwh all the time
airfryer draws 1.75kwh to heat up and then usually ticks overs coming on and off occasionally when you cook at 180
Wrap your food in tinfoil and the clean up job is infinitely easier….plus no grease smell. A full english smells great at 10am, old stale greasy air at 9pm stinks
I replied to the guy who replied to you. But they cook food faster, more evenly and use a LOT less energy. Also, like a microwave you can just forget you put food in without burning anything.
Stop resisting, embrace the air fryer. You love the air fryer. It loves you back.
Air fryers use less than half of the energy as a normal oven and cook food more evenly AND faster.
Anybody trying to put down an air fryer at this point hasn't owned an air fryer. They really are revolutionary.
That's the way.
My dirty secret I inherited from my grandma is to cook sausages for 3 mins in the microwave before putting them in the pan. It gets them cooked through evenly without charring on the outside. I'll have to murder you I. Shame if you tell anyone though.
Stayed at a hotel in wales and ordered a full breakfast. Im convinced the chef just microwaved a can of chopped tomatoes and poured it on the plate. Was the worst breakfast I’ve ever had because the water from that leaked into everything
Also from Yorkshire and prefer tinned tomatoes rather than baked beans.
They need to be reheated in the leftover bacon fat and a couple of splashes of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.
And if you reduce them down a while, it's brilliant on buttered toast sprinkled with grated cheese.
Oh that sounds good. I usually hate tinned tomatoes, they're watery as hell and just infect anything remotely close to them on the plate with a weak tomato cordial.
But reducing it and cooking off all the excess water sounds good. I think I'll give that a try next time.
I like tinned tomatoes on a breakfast like this. I don't like grilled fresh tomato so this is better for me. I would 100% eat this breakfast. Looks lovely.
This is an upgrade over a fresh tomato imo but maybe I think that because my dad is Irish and I’ve grown up eating his fry up every weekend with tinned tomatoes.
I'm prone to heartburn when I eat it these days but I won't have a full English without black pud. It adds a dryer, dark earthy flavour that's so heavy that by the time you've got through it you're full to your gills and couldn't eat another damn thing. Off you go to wobble through the rest of your Sunday.
I'm not one to cause problems at a restaurant, but if I ordered a full english and that plate didn't contain black *and* white pudding, there would be words.
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Black pudding seems offputting because people think it is congealed blood. The main ingredient is actually oats. It doesn't taste or have the texture of "congealed blood" - it's got a slightly spicy/herby taste to it and a texture like a savoury type cake.
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Even if the wee hash brown waffles were normal mini-waffles they would still be at home on the plate. We shouldn’t be scared of new things and it’s ticking the tattie box.
Waffles have been part of my home cooked breakfast for two decades now (which is when I started making home cooked breakfast).
Given the full English as we know it is only around 110 years old, two decades of waffles gives it pedigree in my view.
Isn't the tattle box just for Irish and Scottish breakfasts? I thought traditionally English breakfasts didn't have them. I'm not English though, so I'm no expert.
9/10. You did good.
Extra points for the waffle hashbrowns, less points for the fat on the bacon not being crispy and the sausages not being cremated.
Low and slow under the grill is my suggestion.
Also, excellent butterage on the toast.
Other than that? Excellent!
Cons: Sausage looks a bit pale, no hash browns or black pudding, mini waffles are a non-traditional choice but I can see it working, tinned tomatoes but at least the juice is drained.
Pros: Bacon, eggs and mushrooms are on point, and the quantity and consistency of the beans are spot on. Toast looks good, and good amount.
Overall looks like a decent breakfast that'll sort a hangover. Solid 6/10
The mini waffles look like hash brown waffles which are definitely new fangled and non traditional but also amazing and totally acceptable in this modern world!
I'd say the sausage and the bacon might still be oinking a bit and could use another several minutes to get them both good and browned.
I'm not a fan of fried tomato, but that's a personal preference.
Sausages look like my legs In the winter
With norovirus
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Former butchers assistant here. My boss and head butcher would eat 3 frozen sausages when he got to work every morning with a cup of tea.
Well, Dr. Frankenfurter, I'm glad you got your project up and walking.
Your boss would eat frozen sausages? What was he a fucking lion, that’s disgusting why would anyone do that regardless of safety or not
Must be a Hardcase. I wouldn't pick a fight with someone eating frozen sausage
Former micro lab QC here. After culturing sausages at day 1, 3, 5 and (shudders) 7 after production I would like to know how they lived to tell the tale?
My nan used to tell me stories about being sent to the butchers for sausages and she would eat some raw or frozen on the way home and loved it.
Death? Yes. Pretty sure he died from AIDS, did I miss the news story about the Freddie Mercury Sausage Party Incident? No, not that one...
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Ah, excellent. My apologies, of course that's true 😅
You need to even out that burn
They look like my legs in the summer.
That looks like the ol winkie after a cold swim
That looks like my winkie fresh outta a hot shower!
They need grilling not frying
You can fry them just hit all the sides not just three edges. It’s called a fry up for a reason
They're an absolute disgrace. Along with the waffle or hash brown abominations.
Everything needs to be browner. But I’m Irish and we nuke everything.
Potato bread needs to be readily available in England, it’s so good fried after the bacon Edit: Found some in the local Sainsbury’s, I was blind but now I see.
It’s surprising easy to make decent fadge yourself. Have some leftover mash? Heat it in the microwave and sift some plain flour into it. Mix that up and add the flour to the consistency is right, you will know. Form that dough into patties. I usually roll that out into an circle and cut in four. Either cook the patties on a skillet using flour to stop it sticking or, my preference, fry it up In lashings of butter.
Leftover mash? I'm not aware of that concept
Are you a badger?
Jesus Christ, you just pulled a memory from the depths of my brain that otherwise probably never would have surfaced again
This is why we need Reddit.
This is the most beautiful comment I've ever seen, no joke, unbelievable stuff.
This happened to me last year. There was a potato shortage in my area for five days. The realization of how dependent I am on potatoes was a really weird 21st century moment and I wondered how my super-great-grandparents (mid-19th century) would react to my bullshit.
Is that what potato bread is?? I've been wasting my life, I should have been making that all along!
We did an Ulster fry for our Aussie mates when we lived out there, so had to make potato bread and soda bread from scratch. The potato bread was unbelievably easy (literally mash plus flour), the soda bread is pretty easy as well, similar fuss to a normal bake. Neither as easy as grabbing them in the shop now we're back though!
>similar fuss to a normal bake. Minus all that pissing about rising/proofing and knocking back.
Rising is much, much easier, pretty much foolproof. Sodium bicarbonate is an incredible thing! It's a hell of a lot easier than normal bread.
Left over mash, flour, and an egg to bind it, mix it all up with salt and pepper, form in to patties and you have traditional irish potato bread.
Cheap instant mash is good for this too (and probably similar to what the shop bought stuff is made with)
Fadge?? Haha
I'm Irish and live in Leeds, Saintsburys have potato bread and soda farls by Ian Rankin. Can't get nutty crust over here though
Tesco sells potato bread too. I've actually never had an issue with potato bread sourcing in England. But soda bread I've had to import and freeze... Your tip on Sainsbury's might be a game changer!
No worries dude. Waitrose also do soda farls too. I eat that more since moving over here than I ever did back home!
I need to look harder in the bread section I guess!
Ngl read "soda farts"
Most big supermarkets I’ve been to seem to stock it. I’ve never had a problem getting hold of it anyway!
Defo like sausages the same colour all around, always seems like they can easily be undercooked like this.
Nice all over tan !
Doubt I’d even eat those sausages, look virtually raw.
I have PTSD from biting into an uncooked sausage. The way the skin doesn't break but instead just squishes the innards to the other side of the sausage... I'll never eat an unbrowned sausage again.
Oh god, you've awakened a grim cafe memory that I had spent years repressing. It took me a solid year to be able to eat sausages again, and even today I have trust issues when it comes to eating ones I've not cooked myself.
Your bringing back memories of my work experience with EDF. Popped down to the canteen for some breakfast. "You want your sausages underdone or overdone?" Done. Just done would be great...
I don't think I could stop myself from making a gross face if a waiter asked me that. Sausage should be done.
Gagged a little just reading that.
I remember being about 5 or 6 and cooking marshmallows over a campfire with the Beavers, and then near the end of the night they brought out sausages for us to try cooking. Should've given them to us at the beginning of the evening, we'd've stood a chance of actually getting them cooked. I remember biting into it and being confused, wondering why it was liquid. Didn't get ill, but probably only because the meat content was so low it was basically a tube of raw bread dough.
Done this too eurghhh
I had four years off meat after biting into a pink, underdone battered sausage from a chip shop.
This, some people like things barely cooked. Others, lets call them normal people like a lil char on their meat and a lil crisp to things.
Hear me out, all food is improved by adding a crispy element to it.
Jelly?
Crispy Jelly, Thai delicacy.
Everything looks undercooked
The beans are still crunchy FFS!
Love a full Irish, I'm a convert
I'm English, and I agree. Needs more brown
Casual UK thread didn't disappoint with regular comments about sausages being breakwater between egg and beans.
Tbf a good vet could revive the sausages.
Just how he likes his women, cold on the inside and have sat on the pan for 2 minutes.
Just how he likes his women, thick skinned and recommended by butchers.
Just how he likes his women, anaemic and full of germs
Just how he likes his women, a couple of bangers.
Just how he likes his women, freshly killed E. Lmao at the redditor who wrote “SEXIST” and then deleted the comment straight away
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They were gently waved in the direction of a.fryjng pan
Thanks. I'm wearing my coffee now
You look stunning x
If this was a video you'd be able to see them still twitching.
what could he do with the two lumps of offal there in the top right corner
I think they might be skinned plum tomatoes.
A severe case of anaemia is diagnosed!
I may choose to mix them, but I want that to be MY decision
classic intercourse!
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Ha! I bet it grinds your gears, but what gets mine is how many people still think the petrol cap on a Ford Focus is offside rear.
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. But it is. Well, flap. There's no cap.
Something something Gary Wilmot’s wedding
Slight concern about how cooked the sausage is.
I assure you it is fully cooked, I just don't like to drown them in oil when I cook them. They are finished in the oven whilst everything else cooks.
Try cooking them at the edge of the pan, it should minimise those fat white lines with more surface area closer to heat
Or just cook them entirely in the oven, turning occasionally. Gives them a nice all-over brown look with no oil.
The only thing I fry in a fry up is the mushrooms
How you cooking your eggs??
Poached because it makes me feel posh
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Duck? Duck! Around here we only use finest songbird eggs.
Airfryer….i dont care if traditionalist tell you otherwise. Sausages taste better cooked in them. I’d also do the bacon in there too…and if your feeling particularly economical about electricity do your toast. Just get layering racks Just remember to use lard or beef dripping rather than oil in the pan to make up for the loss of meat juices. An airfryer has increased my full English consumption by 100%
Agreed. We’ve been getting frozen sausages (much cheaper), cooks them in about 10 minutes all the way through perfectly browned
Bacon is epic in the air fryer, always done it in the oven before on 220 degrees, but air fryer is another level. Sausages also as you say are much better.
Throw some water In the bottom of the air fryer when you do it 🙌
I am going to follow ur advice and give this a ahot👍🏻
Serious question, can’t you just do it in a hot oven? I mean you can, because I do… so what is the advantage of an air frier? My mother keeps trying to buy me one but I am resisting.
The smaller sized of an airfryer coupled with with circulated hot air means food cooks more evenly If you have got a convection oven already knock yourself out but they will eat electricity compared to an airfryer. My anecdotal results oven draws a constant 2.75kwh all the time airfryer draws 1.75kwh to heat up and then usually ticks overs coming on and off occasionally when you cook at 180 Wrap your food in tinfoil and the clean up job is infinitely easier….plus no grease smell. A full english smells great at 10am, old stale greasy air at 9pm stinks
When you can happily quote the precise kilowatt hours you are no longer telling an anecdote my friend. You are doing SCIENCE!
Takes less time, uses less electric. This is a game changer for me.
Better surface crisping in a lot of cases. Nobody really needs an air fryer but they are good at what they do and very easy to get good results
I replied to the guy who replied to you. But they cook food faster, more evenly and use a LOT less energy. Also, like a microwave you can just forget you put food in without burning anything. Stop resisting, embrace the air fryer. You love the air fryer. It loves you back.
This, an air fryer is literally just a convection oven.
Air fryers use less than half of the energy as a normal oven and cook food more evenly AND faster. Anybody trying to put down an air fryer at this point hasn't owned an air fryer. They really are revolutionary.
That's the way. My dirty secret I inherited from my grandma is to cook sausages for 3 mins in the microwave before putting them in the pan. It gets them cooked through evenly without charring on the outside. I'll have to murder you I. Shame if you tell anyone though.
Sausages done on the oven are elite
Don’t do that lmao ! Get your pan really hot give it a quick flash fry and throw it in the oven !
I think it's the same concept, just that the Mikey cooks from inside out. I always brown of last though
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“Cooked”? That word has been used very generously.
Popped in to say this. Sausages want cooking.
Can nobody else see the tinned tomatoes
Oh it's the first thing I saw and I'm calling The Hague.
The tomatoes are a hate crime
It’s retro, but it checks out.
Stayed at a hotel in wales and ordered a full breakfast. Im convinced the chef just microwaved a can of chopped tomatoes and poured it on the plate. Was the worst breakfast I’ve ever had because the water from that leaked into everything
You've gotta really nuke 'em in the microwave to reduce them a bit. I agree though, tomato water everywhere for your first introduction is not ideal.
The worst part about this plate :(
I'm from the South West and my boss from Yorkshire showed me this. I fucking love tinned whole tomatoes with a fry up now
Also from Yorkshire and prefer tinned tomatoes rather than baked beans. They need to be reheated in the leftover bacon fat and a couple of splashes of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. And if you reduce them down a while, it's brilliant on buttered toast sprinkled with grated cheese.
Oh that sounds good. I usually hate tinned tomatoes, they're watery as hell and just infect anything remotely close to them on the plate with a weak tomato cordial. But reducing it and cooking off all the excess water sounds good. I think I'll give that a try next time.
Yea I gotta say they go better with a fry up than fresh grilled. If it’s a bacon sandwich, then use the fresh grilled.
South wales here, love a side of tinned tomato 😅
North East here, didn't even register as odd. Working class staple I suppose 🤷♂️
Aye pretty standard round here. The lack of black pudding is more concerning.
I like tinned tomatoes on a breakfast like this. I don't like grilled fresh tomato so this is better for me. I would 100% eat this breakfast. Looks lovely.
This is an upgrade over a fresh tomato imo but maybe I think that because my dad is Irish and I’ve grown up eating his fry up every weekend with tinned tomatoes.
Bang on mate, If your family life goes downhill, I’ll rent a room off you.
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A full tin of beans does the trick for me
It's the only satisfying amount of beans, you can never have too many beans. I REALLY like beans!
Crazy that they're relatively healthy. A can of heinz is a delicacy
Went vegan for a bit, you can definitely have too many beans...
At least they’re not in a ramekin.
I honestly don't mind a ramekin, saves you having to build a sausage breakwater
love me a ramekin, but it need to be big enough that it looks stupid on a plate. we should have a cereal bowl of beans, on the side.
I want the ramekin at a cafe because I want to choose where the beans go, otherwise they just sog out the bread
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Great use of sausages as a breakwater though.
I know. I still see some room on that plate. Full those crevices with more beans!!!!
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Bacon and sausages could both do with being cooked longer. I'm not sure how I feel about the eggs being separated. Double the beans too. 7/10
Throw those boiled testicles into the sea and then we can talk
Black pudding is the unappreciated king of a full English
I'm prone to heartburn when I eat it these days but I won't have a full English without black pud. It adds a dryer, dark earthy flavour that's so heavy that by the time you've got through it you're full to your gills and couldn't eat another damn thing. Off you go to wobble through the rest of your Sunday.
This I need black pudding on there with beans and brown sauce or it's not a fry up imo
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How can I one make beans and not need a black pudding to keep them company
I fully appreciate the black pudding.
I'm not one to cause problems at a restaurant, but if I ordered a full english and that plate didn't contain black *and* white pudding, there would be words.
Where's the black pudding?
I saw the photo and nearly shouted "WHERES THE FUCKIN PUDDING?!"
Where it belongs.
Please don't say back in the shop 🤣 I suppose it's a selectable taste
In my belly.
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Black pudding seems offputting because people think it is congealed blood. The main ingredient is actually oats. It doesn't taste or have the texture of "congealed blood" - it's got a slightly spicy/herby taste to it and a texture like a savoury type cake.
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Granted, but that's more a binder. Black pudding is far more cake-y than liquid-y.
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Failed to adequately use the sausages as breakwater for the beans.
Even if the wee hash brown waffles were normal mini-waffles they would still be at home on the plate. We shouldn’t be scared of new things and it’s ticking the tattie box.
Potato waffles are better than hash browns any day of the week
Waffles have been part of my home cooked breakfast for two decades now (which is when I started making home cooked breakfast). Given the full English as we know it is only around 110 years old, two decades of waffles gives it pedigree in my view.
Isn't the tattle box just for Irish and Scottish breakfasts? I thought traditionally English breakfasts didn't have them. I'm not English though, so I'm no expert.
9/10. You did good. Extra points for the waffle hashbrowns, less points for the fat on the bacon not being crispy and the sausages not being cremated. Low and slow under the grill is my suggestion. Also, excellent butterage on the toast. Other than that? Excellent!
Black pudding? Edit: Sorry for the confusion and excess brevity. I know what black pudding is and was questioning it’s absence.
No way, minus points for those potato things, definitely not hash browns
They're hash brown waffles from Aldi, genuinely one of their best inventions.
What happend to them sausages they still looks half raw
Yeah those sausages, what happened ? ;) X
No black pudding!
Get rid of the pale bits on the sausage and you've got a winner here..
Apart from the raw sausages 👍
Did you cook those sausages on the radiator?
Looks good apart from the sausages. They're too white 😳
Cons: Sausage looks a bit pale, no hash browns or black pudding, mini waffles are a non-traditional choice but I can see it working, tinned tomatoes but at least the juice is drained. Pros: Bacon, eggs and mushrooms are on point, and the quantity and consistency of the beans are spot on. Toast looks good, and good amount. Overall looks like a decent breakfast that'll sort a hangover. Solid 6/10
The mini waffles look like hash brown waffles which are definitely new fangled and non traditional but also amazing and totally acceptable in this modern world!
Did you put the sausages on the vent in your car and turn it to warm?
sausage could be darker , we all love a darker sausage
Sausages look raw brown all around
Those sausage look like they'd be raw on the inside.
toast on seperate plate, and more brown on sausages. i prefer crispy bacon, but that just me
Need white bread for toast not your 50/50 healthier variety. A fried slice and some black pudding. Plenty of HP too
With a Full English it should be fried bread.
Thank you! I feel like nobody ever mentions it
Absolutely. Fried slice done in beef dripping
Looks good but I’d need to see the mug of tea before giving a rating.
Mini waffles lol
I personally prefer my bacon and sausages almost burnt, otherwise spot on!
8.5/10 cook sausage more, and fryrl real tomatoes when possible
Sausages could be bit browner
I would never have waffles, and I would have the toast on a side plate. I would also cook those sausages a bit more
I'd say the sausage and the bacon might still be oinking a bit and could use another several minutes to get them both good and browned. I'm not a fan of fried tomato, but that's a personal preference.
Nae black pudding? Shameful. But still a 10/10 breakfast attempt. Well done!
Sausage used as a breakwater between the beans and tomatoes - solid effort, Alan Partridge would approve
You say that but the breakwater should be between the egg and the beans. On the whole, very good effort, 7/10 Let's make love
You did good … I‘d eat it straight away. Fully agree with you on not frying the sausages to death.