A fry-up in the morning. Is it unhealthy?

victor8600 · 13-05-2020 1:08pm

Flaccus wrote: »

Yes, I wish I could do crispy rashers but always make a balls of it.

May be use a larger frying pan and heat it up well before frying the rashers?

corner of hells · 13-05-2020 1:11pm

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Outrageous statement, beans are the gravy of a fry, they make a good thing great :-)

Sir , take that comment back.
Beans should never be near a fry.Beans only go with toast , I.e. beans on toast.

Beans and a fry would be akin to expecting Mayo to win the All Ireland or your wife wanting to go fishing with you.

murpho999 · 13-05-2020 1:13pm

Flaccus wrote: »

I disagree. Plenty baked beans and especially nice covered in YR sauce.

No, that's an English fry especially with YR sauce.

Chef for me all the way.

Beans are not fried, so don't belong on a fry. Simple rule.

Flaccus · 13-05-2020 1:16pm

murpho999 wrote: »

No, that's an English fry especially with YR sauce.

Chef for me all the way.

I like both but HP or YR are my favorite. I'd even eat a catering sized tin baked beans cold out of the tin if it had a half bottle YR dumped into.

tabby aspreme · 13-05-2020 1:18pm

Flaccus wrote: »

Just had an unhealthy fry for lunch. Full now for a few hours.

Is hair now mandatory in a good fry, or is it a hairline crack on the plate.

EmmetSpiceland · 13-05-2020 1:24pm

Flaccus wrote: »

You are talking out your arse. The sausages were lovely, maybe I slightly overcooked them but they were not dehyrdated. and the puddings were all I could get in tesco yesterday but were fine. Can't do crispy bacon on the electric hob I have. As for the brown sauce, that's the idea, you mix it with the bean sauce. Moron.

Whoa, no need to start throwing personal insults around just because you made a fry that only a, long haul, trucker could enjoy. The kind “served up” on a, late night, ferry crossing.

I believe a central “tenet” of this site is to attack the post and not the poster. Please adhere to this in future, you’re letting yourself down. Just like your fry.

Odyssey 2005 · 13-05-2020 1:24pm

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Big fan of the Rudds white. That and eggs are my standard lock down breakfast

You should try Aldi's white pudding. Not the 79c shyte, the ballyvourney stuff. Its fab

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 13-05-2020 1:32pm

Feisar wrote: »

I don't believe it's the fat that is bad, it's the processed meat. What the hell is rusk anyway!?!

Regarding a poached egg, which is a beautiful thing in itself, if one is being health conscious there is no point in ordering a poached egg and then slathering yer toast in butter.

I thought we had moved past people thinking butter is the enemy. The bread is the worst part of this. Poached eggs wouldn’t be much healthier than a fried egg. Egg is wonderful in all forms, a little wonderfood. And fat is not the enemy in small amounts. Some people just prefer poached to fried.

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

My Mrs bought an airfryer. The dry wrinkly sausages that come out of it make me sad.
I am like Mrs Doyle with her tea maker. Just waiting on an opportunity to destroy it.

Aye. The only way I cook sausages is fried. Grilling and oven-roasting turn them shrivelled and apparently so does airfrying. In the pan, they stay plump. I’m not the biggest fan of sossies but if I’m having them, it has to be fried all the way. And you don’t even need to use much oil. A teaspoon is enough. And my hubs LOVES sossies and feels the same: fried or nothing.

Odyssey 2005 · 13-05-2020 1:32pm

I'm hungry.!!

And as much tea and toast as you can eat. €9.50.

13-05-2020 1:37pm

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

My Mrs bought an airfryer. The dry wrinkly sausages that come out of it make me sad.
I am like Mrs Doyle with her tea maker. Just waiting on an opportunity to destroy it.

Wow, couldn’t disagree more. The airfryer is the best thing I’ve ever bought for the kitchen by a distance. It’s used pretty much everyday and loads of stuff we used to do in the oven/grill now goes in the airfryer as it’s makes a better job and is faster.

I think it makes a savage job out of a breakfast too (incl sausages don’t find them dry at all) and is so handy as you can stick it on, turn things once and no other handling or watching.

Only fault I’d have it’s it’s size which is helped a little as I bought a shelf for inside it but I’d like one 3 times the size and when this one packs it in I’ll buy the biggest one available.

Pawwed Rig · 13-05-2020 1:48pm

Wells Steep Newscaster wrote: »

Wow, couldn’t disagree more. The airfryer is the best thing I’ve ever bought for the kitchen by a distance. It’s used pretty much everyday and loads of stuff we used to do in the oven/grill now goes in the airfryer as it’s makes a better job .

She uses it every day too more is the pity. Wrinkly sausages, rotten chips.

If this keeps on I may even need to start cooking myself.

You may find that the people you are cooking for are not being entirely truthful.
Actually are you my wife?

tayto lover · 13-05-2020 1:53pm

My breakfast was 2 rashers, 3 sausages, black and white pudding and 2 poached eggs.
It was maybe unhealthy but so delicious I might have the same again for my tea.
No such a thing as a healthy death anyway.

Homelander · 13-05-2020 1:54pm

I actually like sausages cooked in the oven, I like how the skin crisps. The rare time I make a fry, I do the sausages separately in the oven, pudding and bacon in the pan.

Thelonious Monk · 13-05-2020 1:59pm

I find this british style breakfast that you people eat revolting tbh, poached eggs and some nice bread ftw

Huntergonzo · 13-05-2020 2:05pm

corner of hells wrote: »

Sir , take that comment back.
Beans should never be near a fry.Beans only go with toast , I.e. beans on toast.

Beans and a fry would be akin to expecting Mayo to win the All Ireland or your wife wanting to go fishing with you.

I stand 100% behind my statement regarding the imperative presence of beans to complete the perfect fry.

Ps, lets not get silly now, Mayo will never win the All-Ireland and one sure way of ruining a good fishing trip is to bring the wife along with you!

Billy Mays · 13-05-2020 2:08pm

A kick in the b0ll0cks. Is it painful?

pinktoe · 13-05-2020 2:11pm

Anyone get crippling stomach pains from Clonakilty, Rudds, Shaw types pudding? Love them but have to avoid them.

Hate the cheaper Denny Galtee puddings.

Personally, I think there is no place for beans in a good fry. Taking over the plate messing up the taste

corner of hells · 13-05-2020 2:13pm

Huntergonzo wrote: »

I stand 100% behind my statement regarding the imperative presence of beans to complete the perfect fry.

Ps, lets not get silly now, Mayo will never win the All-Ireland and one sure way of ruining a good fishing trip is to bring the wife along with you!

See pinktoes post regarding beans.

JohnnyFlash · 13-05-2020 2:16pm

There’s something desperately wrong with people who like beans with a fry. Or like beans in general.
Even more perverse than people who like those tasteless triangle hash brown yokes that have creeped onto the fry plate in the past 15 years. Cheap auld shïte designed to bulk up the meal.

tayto lover · 13-05-2020 2:18pm

pinktoe wrote: »

Anyone get crippling stomach pains from Clonakilty, Rudds, Shaw types pudding? Love them but have to avoid them.

Hate the cheaper Denny Galtee puddings.

Personally, I think there is no place for beans in a good fry. Taking over the plate messing up the taste

Kelly’s pudding from Newport, Co. Mayo is lovely stuff.

Cienciano · 13-05-2020 2:18pm

pinktoe wrote: »

Personally, I think there is no place for beans in a good fry. Taking over the plate messing up the taste

Beans are important imho. But don't like them mixed in with everything. If I'm out I ask for them on the side, usually get them in a ramekin

Alun · 13-05-2020 2:19pm

murpho999 wrote: »

No, that's an English fry especially with YR sauce.

I've never seen YR sauce in England, despite it apparently being short for Yorkshire Relish. It's made in Ireland too.

HP sauce was the only one I remember growing up there.

dennyire · 13-05-2020 2:21pm

Flaccus wrote: »

Actually there was 2 hash browns and 2 extra eggs but I had em scoffed before I took the pic

Yes, I wish I could do crispy rashers but always make a balls of it.

Fry everything except the rashers....do them under the grill for a lovely crispy rind

jimgoose · 13-05-2020 2:23pm

Alun wrote: »

I've never seen YR sauce in England, despite it apparently being short for Yorkshire Relish. It's made in Ireland too.

HP sauce was the only one I remember growing up there.

That's right, it's made in Donegal by Robert Roberts, they of the various coffee products and what-not. You're more likely to encounter HP sauce in Blighty, the "HP" stands for London's Houses of Parliament.

Flaccus · 13-05-2020 2:28pm

dennyire wrote: »

Fry everything except the rashers....do them under the grill for a lovely crispy rind

Feckin grill is bust

Flaccus · 13-05-2020 2:29pm

Best white pudding is the one made by local butchers in Limerick and sold down the market Saturday morning.

Flaccus · 13-05-2020 2:31pm

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Is hair now mandatory in a good fry, or is it a hairline crack on the plate.

LOL. I had to do a double take and go and check the plate. There is a couple cracks on it.

Flaccus · 13-05-2020 2:32pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Whoa, no need to start throwing personal insults around just because you made a fry that only a, long haul, trucker could enjoy. The kind “served up” on a, late night, ferry crossing.

I believe a central “tenet” of this site is to attack the post and not the poster. Please adhere to this in future, you’re letting yourself down. Just like your fry.

Now look who is throwing the insults.

Cienciano · 13-05-2020 2:41pm

Flaccus wrote: »

Now look who is throwing the insults.

For god sake, you should have cooked your food the way Emmet likes it, with undercooked sausages. Not the way you like it. Basic stuff here :pac:

Huntergonzo · 13-05-2020 2:42pm

corner of hells wrote: »

See pinktoes post regarding beans.

Well I think anybody who don't trust beans on a breakfast plate is nothing more than a has-bean....see what I did there :-)

copeyhagen · 13-05-2020 2:45pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Beans are important imho. But don't like them mixed in with everything. If I'm out I ask for them on the side, usually get them in a ramekin

bender:pac:

Huntergonzo · 13-05-2020 2:47pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Beans are important imho. But don't like them mixed in with everything. If I'm out I ask for them on the side, usually get them in a ramekin

I think beans are grand on the plate so long as:

a. It's a big plate

b. You have enough sausages to make a retaining wall to keep the beans from interacting with your crispy rashers, I don't want me rashers getting floppy!!

Then you're free to dip stuff into the beans at your own leisure.....happy days.

the beer revolu · 13-05-2020 2:49pm

Death to beans in a fry.
And to all their supporters.

Alun · 13-05-2020 2:51pm

Any fans of fried bread here?

Adyx · 13-05-2020 2:53pm

Start the rashers in a cold pan for crispiness apparently. Haven't tried it myself.

NSAman · 13-05-2020 2:54pm

There is NOTHING like an Irish Fry ... White Puddin’, Sausages (old superquinn...drool), rashers, Eggs, Big fresh loaf and loads of butter and a mug of tae!!!

I miss it SOOO much at the moment.

I ordered the irish Breakfast from irish goods online only to find out all made in the states and very disappointing......

First thing that is done upon landing in Dublin, Bewleys/open breakfast place.... dont care about the price, just want some decent food.

Second thing, CHIPS from Embassy Grill Ballsbridge.

Cant wait to get home again... mouth is drooling at the thoughts...

EmmetSpiceland · 13-05-2020 2:54pm

Flaccus wrote: »

Now look who is throwing the insults.

Please point out to me where I threw out any “personal” insults. Go on. Because I don’t see any.

I, merely, commented on, what I would consider to be, a terrible fry.

You, however, got all worked up and got “personal”. Which crossed a line and I, for one, think you should apologise now before a moderator spots this “rule” breach and punishes you accordingly.

Fann Linn · 13-05-2020 2:55pm

Alun wrote: »

Any fans of fried bread here?

Love it. The more grease the better.

JohnnyFlash · 13-05-2020 2:56pm

Alun wrote: »

Any fans of fried bread here?

Nordies love fried bread. Dripping in grease. They are a famously dour and bad-tempered group of people, but do seem to cheer up when they are stuffing their gobs with fried bread.

corner of hells · 13-05-2020 2:57pm

Alun wrote: »

Any fans of fried bread here?

I tip my hat to you sir , fried bread is excellent.

I also believe any one who likes beans with their fry probably wears Crocs or sandals with socks and therefore should not be trusted in anyway.

13-05-2020 3:03pm

Post I was replying to appears to have disappeared, below was in response to a poster saying "its like using an oven"

Yeah but the airfryer makes a much better job of the these types of food and also is heated to 200C in 2 mins and ready to go. Gives a really crispy outside to food that you cant get with the oven, excellent for the breakfast type food being discussed here but also things like chicken wings and drunstick, nuggest and goujons etc. Its a revelation for oven chips and I discoverd its a nearly unbeatable way to cook steak. Also for doing roasted veg or potatoes its great.

Between the slow cooker and the airfryer the oven gets only a fraction of the use and the grill is basically redundant. The only thing that genuinely didn't come out well from it was lean chicken breast as it doesn't have enough fat.

pinktoe wrote: »

Anyone get crippling stomach pains from Clonakilty, Rudds, Shaw types pudding? Love them but have to avoid them.

Nope, I'd eat nearly a full chub of clonakilty black pudding every weekend and cant say I ever had an issue with it

tayto lover wrote: »

Kelly’s pudding from Newport, Co. Mayo is lovely stuff.

I dont get the love for it (or any of the kelly's stuff to be honest), people rave about it but I don't particularly like their black pudding I cant really put my finger on what it is about it I think its too salty or something. Clonakilty or roscarberry for me is miles ahead. A

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 13-05-2020 3:05pm

Alun wrote: »

Any fans of fried bread here?

It’s okay. I’ve had it in the UK where the bread is crisp and the bread isn’t actually hugely impregnated with oil. But I’ve tried it myself at home (usually when cooking an egg in the middle of the slice) and it was far too greasy. I’m not sure what the knack is.

Agree with those who say rashers need to be grilled rather than fried. Gotta get that fat crispy.

magic_murph · 13-05-2020 3:05pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I made myself a bit of a fry earlier and can't see how it was that unhealthy.. Half a teaspoon of olive oil. Onions. Garlic. Mushrooms. Cherry tomatoes. Slice of bacon. Scrambled eggs. Slice of brown bread toast. All cooked on a low to medium heat with a dash of fish sauce.

You always hear that fries are terrible but I'm not seeing it. I'm not overweight so don't care about some bacon, and the rest could be put into any "healthy" meal. The fish sauce has sodium but I only used a tiny bit.

Does the mantra that they're a heart attack on a plate come from them being cooked in loads of crappy oil or lard? I definitely made some very unhealthy ones in the past with tonnes of oil.

Fish Sauce.....on a fry.....for breakfast. STFU

EltonJohn69 · 13-05-2020 3:06pm

Dream fry up = Onions, mayonnaise and egg

Fann Linn · 13-05-2020 3:08pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Dream fry up = Onions, mayonnaise and egg

That's a salad.

EltonJohn69 · 13-05-2020 3:09pm

Fann Linn wrote: »

That's a salad.

Thank me after you get it in a smoking hot frying pan x

corner of hells · 13-05-2020 3:10pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Thank me after you get it in a smoking hot frying pan x

A hot salad .

JohnnyFlash · 13-05-2020 3:12pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Dream fry up = Onions, mayonnaise and egg

That’s an egg mayonnaise and onion sandwich, dude. Not bits of processed pig meat fried in a pan.

EltonJohn69 · 13-05-2020 3:12pm

corner of hells wrote: »

A hot salad .

A sausage is 99% breadcrumbs, an egg is 100% protein.

EltonJohn69 · 13-05-2020 3:16pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

That’s an egg mayonnaise and onion sandwich, dude. Not bits of processed pig meat fried in a pan.

When you got a mouth full of hot egg, mayonnaise and onion you will thank me x

A fry-up in the morning. Is it unhealthy?

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