[Closed] The definitive Full English breakfast?

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Haggis.

Oops thoughts you said a proper breakfast 🙂

Ok. Sausages - Cauldron ones are best. Poached or boiled egg, grilled tomato (with the green end bit cut out before cooking) beans, hash brown, brown sauce. Bit of toast with marmalade. Strong black coffee.

Normally just eat 5 boiled eggs though 🙁

Sausage x 2
Bacon (smoked) x2
Hash browns x2
Scrambled egg (not rubbery)
[s]Bit of haggis[/s]. Sorry, you said English.
Well done baked beans, slightly mushy
Thick white toast, real butter
Orange juice
Tea in a pot
Newspaper

And none of that Welsh seaweed and pickled molluscs either 😉

No filthy fungus

AMEN, BROTHER!

...but I admit I forgot the hash browns! Sorry.

CFH, rule of life...if it can live in the dark on poo then I don't eat it. Simple 🙂

Sausage
Egg (fried)
Bacon
Hash Browns
Beans
Fried bread
Eggy bread

When we were kids, my little brother used to cycle 9 miles every Saturday morning to our Nan's house to get his breakfast..

It consisted of

2 bacon
2 sausage
2 lamb chops
1 pork chop
2 fried eggs
fried potatoes
fried mushrooms
fried tomatoes
fried beans ( 😯 )
toast
coffee

not too shabby for a 12 year old.. he's a fat knacker now some 30 years later

Hash browns are an abomination in a traditional English Breakfast.

Bacon
Sausage
Fried or poached egg
Fried slice or toast
Beans
Tomato
Mushrooms
Black Pudding

Bacon
Sausage
Fried or poached egg
Fried slice or toast
Beans
Tomato
Mushrooms
Black Pudding

Sooo close. Just missing a crust.

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Anyone that puts a grilled tomato on a fry-up wants a kick in the marbles....
Proper tinned tomatoes - it's what the bread and butter is for mopping up!

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I'm on a Fast day on the 5:2 diet - this isn't helping!!!

Coyote +1 with tea n toast

Bacon smoked x 3 slices
Fried Egg large x 2
Baked beans x 1 can
Thick toast with butter x 2
Tomato ketchup (Del Monte ... plenty of it)

Tea (with sweet condense milk South East Asian style) x 1
Coffee (with sugar no milk - Amaricano) x 1

I am going to add to my previous list to include ... [b] petit pois[/b]

I don't think that I could even eat all the sausages in rattraps picture!

tomato ketchup is wrong and hash browns are a cop out - and fried bread is unnecessary, just brown toast thanks

but I like mushrooms, grilled tomato is preferred to beans and gotta be coffee, haggis is the best

mmmmm think me and smallperson are going to a cafe tomorrow!!

Lava bread and thick cut dry cure bacon with black pudding

Ho yes add anything else you fancy

The best full English, is the one cooked unrequested by someone else!

For the record, if she ever read STW, quality sausages, bacon, poached egg, beans, fried potatoes, mushrooms

Bothy breakfast:
Those square Warburtons wrap things or a toasted pitta bread stuffed with bacon, chipolatas, fried egg, mushrooms, beans and black pudding. Plenty of seasoning too. Pint of tea.
Most excellent indeed.

Sausages (grilled)
Bacon (grilled)
BLACK PUDDING!!
Fried Bread
Fried Egg(s) (scrambled for breakfast should only ever accompany smoked salmon)
Fried or grilled beef tomato
Beans
Mushrooms

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not too shabby for a 12 year old.. he's a fat knacker now some 30 years later

Who'd a thunk it.

I'm allergic to egg so for me

3 X Thick well seasoned local sausage (Pateley Specials from Weatherheads)

2 rashers Ians Dry Cured Midle bacon (see above)

Slice of black pudding (Once more from the above) - grilled

Fried Mushrooms

Grilled Tomoatoes

Fried Kidneys

Buttered granary toast, from my own hommade bread.

Coffee

Orange Juice

Oatcakes (north staffs), bacon, beans, melted cheese (cheshire), fried bread, sausage, black pudding, fried or scrambled egg, tinned tomatoes (optional) oh and toast..... Washed down with a china cup of Twinings English Breakfast 🙂

2 x Linconshire sausages
2 x Rashers Back bacon (unsmoked)
Fried egg x 2
Beans
Plum Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Black pudding
White pudding (proper Irish stuff, none of this prepacked rubbish!)
Hash Brown
Toast
Tea
Orange Juice
+ loads of white pepper and a dash of HP sauce, Nom Nom Nom!

Stop what you are doing. Read this. When a breakfast is this well written, it becomes the winner and is a truly splendid thing:

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Sausages - best quality pork, grilled.
Bacon - again, top quality pork, grilled and crispy.
Scrambled eggs
Mushrooms
Baked beans
Toast (certainly not fried bread, that's just wrong).

A cafetiere of fine coffee.
A glass of orange juice, freshly squeezed.

Ways to ruin a cooked breakfast are to use cheapo nasty meat or instant coffee. Either of these sins should be punishable by death.

Having cooked sausages, bacon, black pudding, toast, eggs, mushrooms, fried bread and tomatoes for some friends who'd stayed overnight, I put a small pan on the hob for scallops. They spat slightly, and the whole pan caught fire. I ran out of the (open) back door carrying said blazing pan - and in doing so caught my big toe on the edge of the open door, trying in effect to kick it up the garden - ouch). Ian, one of the aforementioned house guests, commented that he'd never before been served breakfast with 'scenes of mild peril' !

Definitely no hash browns. But scallops with bacon go so well. Sadly on that occasion I chucked them up the garden along with the blazing pan.

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In Amsterdam after a heavy session we ended up in some Irish pub for breakie and it was imense consisting of sausage bacon black pudding fried & scambled egg beans tomato mushrooms fried potato toast & fried slice mmmmmmmmmm washed down with
black coffee and Amstel.

I quite like it smaller or simpler these days - bacon & egg or sausage egg & beans.

Get down wetherspoons and have the big breakfast a large latte with extra toast, free news viewing and free wifi aaaand no washing up after hey presto!!

There is nothing worth eating in Weatherspoons

Sausage x 1
Bacon x 3
Black pudding x 1
Poached egg x 1
Tomato x 1
Fried bread x 1 round

Fresh black coffee

Toast, butter & homemade marmalade

Dump

Post ride breakfast

Seeing theres plenty of experts here - whats the best way to make fried bread?

Partial to the Full Welsh we used to get down at Swansea Market when I was a student there. Bacon, pork and leek sausage, eggs, fried potatoes, laver bread (ie seaweed) and some fried cockles (seriously). Awesome after a big night out.

For fried bread, my dad's technique was to grill the bacon, wiipe the bread in the resulting fat in the botton of the grill pan and then grill it. Thereby negating any possible health benefits of grilling the bacon in the first place. Darn tasty though.

BURY black pudding FTW.

What's with the hash browns guys? You'll be shoving pancakes and maple syrup in there next.

Fried cockles? Holy sh1t.

whats the best way to make fried bread?

Fry all dead animal first. Use the fat in the pan to fry the bread. Make sure you quickly flip it over so both sides absorb the life-giving fat evenly.
I prefer to cut the slices in half before frying for ease of handling and more even cooking.

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Hash browns are an American abomination, the proper potato based accompaniment is:
Bubble and Squeek
Bacon
Sausage
Fried Egg
Black pudding
Tinned tomatoes or baked beans
Toast and butter (clearing the bean sauce or tomato juice)
Tea in a large mug

Fried bread, dip the bread in the fried/grilled animal fat on both sides and then put in a dry frying pan to crisp on the surface. (It should not spray the room with shrapnel when cut into).

Left over curry/kebeb/chinese/pizza or combination of any or all of these, nuked to enamel melting temperatures and served with tea strong enough to stand a spoon in.

I think it is fairly important that you can't see the plate it is on.
Ramones in Cardiff do a good fry up, along the lines of warton pic with unlimited tea/coffee.

lister - Member

No filthy fungus and beans have no place at breakfast...

Amen brother Lister.

Midnighthour - Member

Seeing theres plenty of experts here - whats the best way to make fried bread?

Deep fat fryer.

What you need to do is get yourself down to the National Gallery of Scotland cafe in Edinburgh and have yourself a full [b]Scottish[/b] breakfast while gazing out over Princes Street gardens.

They sell Buckfast tonic wine in my local off licence, I have no need to travel to Edinburgh.

Try adding fried halloumi to your favourite combo.

I'm surprised at the number of people suggesting that mushrooms are not required. Clearly an essential as long as they are properly fried not stewed in liquid.

I'm partial to potato of some kind. Clearly hash browns are inauthentic but I do like them. Alternatively sautéed potatoes.

So ideally it would be:

bacon
sausage
eggs (Fried or poached)
black pudding
mushrooms
grilled tomato
beans
fried bread
some form of fried potato
toast on the side

timber - Member
I think it is fairly important that you can't see the plate it is on.
Ramones in Cardiff do a good fry up, along the lines of warton pic with unlimited tea/coffee.

Must check they are open on a Sunday as that will be me sorted in a fortnights time after the rugby, might pop down tomorrow for a trial run

Dunno about a full english, but here's a full Scottish.
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I am not sure it is Yodagoat. Don't see any haggis and there are hash browns in place of tattie scones.

Aye, well spotted. Could chuck in a blackheart lorne too.

Tomatoes in a full English are a total mystery to me. IMO should be:

Sausage
Bacon
Fried eggs
Toast
Mushrooms
Black pudding
Hash browns
Beans (optional)
+ lots of brown sauce.

You can get a good Irish breakfast in O'Neill's (I know, I know) and there's a new-ish cafe in Capel Curig does a good fry up too. Breakfats is always one of my favourite parts of going away to the hills, especially if staying in a B&B

yodagoat - Member
Dunno about a full english, but here's a full Scottish.

Is that raw tomato? How odd.

I like this inbuilt handles on the plate to help with carrying the heavy load.

That Scottish one looks pretty good actually... Apart from the tomatoes.

Where in Capel Curig (the vast metropolis) is the new cafe? I'm up there in a couple of weeks.

Can't believe the number of mould eaters on here!

A raw tomato? Dinnae be daft. It was fried, just not enough to caramelise 😉

Bacon (streaky) x 2
Sausage x 1
Poached egg x 1
beans (heinz)
Mushrooms
Hashbrown x 2
Toast x 2
Brew (stong tea)

Perfik!

tomhoward - Member
Sausages
Bacon
Eggs, 1 or 2 fried but runny, and a good spoon ladle full of scrambled.
Hash browns
Mushrooms
Black pudding
Going to go out on a limb here and say spaghetti hoops instead of beans. I don't like beans, but want the tomato sauce. (It's my breakfast, I'll have what I want!)
Slice of white toast
Slice of white fried bread
Bucket of strong milky tea.
Enough for seconds

A full English aka the "fry up" clue in the name is if it ain't fried it's not going on my plate. I like black pudding, sausage, bacon, egg, mushrooms. Toast to mop up the juices and all washed down with a pint mug of tea.

Except I emigrated to Scotland so my breakfast now also includes square sausage, fruit pudding, and tattie scones.

As I grow older I realise that less is more, a breakfast should be made of the best possible ingredients and not too many of them.
The first is a good sausage, made by a proper butcher and cooked to perfection, the oven is good for this but any heat will do as long as its not too harsh.
Then good bacon, grilled, as much or as little as you like.
Eggs depend on your mood, sometimes scrambled with a little parmesan and chilli but poached or fried are more usual.
If you can get good black pudding then add a slice but dont overcook it.
Fried bread must be a good thick slice fried in red hot oil so that it is crisp.
Apart from that plum tomatoes, seperate from your plate to dip in and out of are nice but not everybody`s cup of tea.
Some good bread with real butter goes much better than toast and a mug of tea or coffee, whichever is your poison.
Whatever you do dont add beans, hash browns or anything else for that matter, well except maybe the Sunday papers.

Sausage
Bacon
Fried Egg
Black pudding
Beans
Mushrooms
Fried tomato
Hash Brown
Tattie scone
Fried Bread
Toast

OPTIONAL
Haggis
Lorne Sausage
Roll
Brown sauce
Ketchup (if you're a ****ing heathen)

Catfood. There is no space for Parmesan in a fry up. Or chilli.
But you're right about getting your gear from a decent butcher.

Also ditch the sunday firelighters and add a few friends.

Try a bit in your scrambled eggs, makes em yummy.

Aye. Fully agree. Just not in a full fry up.
Some chilli and fresh coriander on scrambled eggs is tasty.

Hash browns and beans are American therefore irrelevant as are haggis and curry.We can happily ignore those posts:)

Tomatoes aren't really native to your england either are they? What about beans and French toast?

Good effort though. 😉

French toast

You mean Eggy bread?

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