Reply With QuoteSausages, need to be about 95%+meat though a butchers own 'lorne' sausage is even better, mushrooms fresh ceps, eggs local and free range, toast with 'cranks' bread buttered with a thin coating of marmite.
Tea 'Yorkshire'.
There seems to be a lot of trivial posts on the forum right now about missing post, 26 million dollars etc so let's ramp it up with a serious and controversial subject - the fried breakfast. This article on the BBC website got me thinking - what is the perfect fried breakfast? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43372765
THE most important thing is sausages. If you eat value Asda sausages for breakfast then stay the hell off my thread - your opinion isn't wanted here. Newmarket sausages are by far and away the best. I prefer them cooked in the oven but fried is acceptable too. Proper Lincolnshire sausages from a butcher are also good.
Bacon. Smoked back from a butchers that hasn't been injected with half a pint of water per pack like the crap that Tesco sell which oozes a weird jism like substance during frying.
Some people say baked beans should never be part of a fry-up. Those people are deluded. Branston 1st, Heinz 2nd.
Mushrooms. Fresh and fried - none of that tinned junk.
Tomatoes. Fresh and fried - none of that tinned junk (again).
Eggs. I prefer scrambled, cooked in a pan with butter and pepper. NOT microwaved - this isn't a Little Chef.
Black pudding. Fried. It's all pigs blood and oatmeal - who cares where you buy it from.
Bread and butter, not toast. You can't mop up properly with toast. A freshly sliced sandwich loaf is best but I also quite like Warburtons - it seems to stay fresher for much longer. Good job Warburtons chemical additive division!
Finally, a mug of tea made with a decent tea-bag. None of this pretentious leaf in a teapot sh*t - it's not 1950. Milk, 1 sugar.
I look forward to everyone agreeing with my choice, otherwise you're wrong.
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Sausages, need to be about 95%+meat though a butchers own 'lorne' sausage is even better, mushrooms fresh ceps, eggs local and free range, toast with 'cranks' bread buttered with a thin coating of marmite.
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Hand made Sausages from my local butchers farm shop
Gloucester Old spot best back bacon from above
Beans Branston
Black pudding from above
Fresh tomatoes grilled
Fried Egg
Mushrooms fried in salt pepper and a little butter
Agree with most of the above
However, the forum Goat needs his mushrooms chopped into chunks and simmered in a couple of tablespoons of white wine with a knob of butter with some black pepper
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Agreed almost 100% apart from the bread. I need buttered toast to go with it as I prefer the texture.
Agreed with above but would include dark fried onions and square slice sausage along with a well fired fresh white roll yum yum 😋
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Needs more Scottish input - cannot beat a fried potato scone - superb for mopping up lightly fried eggs. Some people like a slice of haggis but probably a bit too intense flavour wise that early. Fruit pudding lovely also - have only ever seen this in the ubiquitous Scottish breakfast packs on sale practically everywhere up here. Kinda like a doughy suety slice of heaven with raisins and sultanas.
Broadly in agreement but as this is fried breakfast and not a Full English thread then how about the addition of some white pudding, one of Ireland finest exports?
I can take or leave the beans though!
Tomatoes have to be halved and grilled. Tinned tomatoes are for spag-bol.
Black pudding should be Scottish or Irish - That English stuff with big lumps of white fat is low-grade dog-food.
Mushrooms must be fresh and grilled.
Baked Beans mustn't touch the fried egg on the plate.
Beans in ramekin please to avoid sauce contamination. We’re not savages FFS.
Also a superb method to avoid flaccid soggy toast when you’re doing beans on toast
Branstons (used to be Cross and Blackwell) beans are better than Heinz - fact (that means you can’t dispute it)
I prefer a chipolata - straight up English no poncing about type
Good quality smoked back bacon
Scramblers with butter and olive oil cooked in a large open pan super quick, so that they’re still eggy
Fresh mushroom
Doorstep toast dripping in butter
Tea
And Brown sauce
Like black pudding, but, can’t be bothered to cook it
You can stick your tomatoes where the sun don’t shine
Pork sausages, Bassett bangers perfect
Fried egg goes without saying.
Thick smoked back bacon or streaky is fine
Black pudding a must
Tinned tomatoes not fresh.
Fresh mushrooms
The Baked Bean is a no no for me with a fried breakfast and should be banished from the plate.
Toast and real butter
The absolute must a nice pot of tea.
Simple things.
+1 for the white puddingOriginally Posted by StuS
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Black Pudding is a must have, but I’ll take Haggis with my breakfast too.
Plus a Tattie Scone.
Never been a fan of square sausage though, so standard pork will do, and at least two rashers of bacon.
Any brand baked beans.
Bread preference is brown, but breakfast equals white buttered toast.
Oh, and a fried egg, although I don’t eat the white!
I notice we have quite a few fry-up philistines on the forum but it warms my heart to see that not one person has yet mentioned the dreaded hash brown. Kudos!
Good pork sausages
Good bacon
Heinz beans but the Aldi prime ones are surprisingly good
Fried eggs
Fried white bread
Fried mushrooms
Chilled fresh orange juice
Proper strong black loose leaf tea
Whatever other items you have in you breakfast, you must have baked beans, they must be Branston (not Heinz slop) and they must be heated in the frying pan you cooked your bacon in.
F.T.F.A.
Two rashers of dry smoked bacon from the local butcher, cooked until the rind goes crispy
mushrooms sauted with pepper - no oil, grease, etc.
Egg - fried in the bacon fat
two slices of white bread (sandwich loaf) from the local baker with Anchor spreadable.
1 Sausage - Heck pork (Waitrose)
4 vine tomatos - fried
left over mashed potato - fried with pepper and salt - no oil, fat, etc.
Beans - Branston
tea - Yorkshire, milk and a sweetener.
No ketchup or brown sauce - as it's sh*t.
All cooked by me every Saturday.
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Can't really disagree with you, Lamps.
The only thing that would make it better is for it to be made by someone else.
All above looks yummy.
Add: Hot toast with dripping or a piece of pap white bread to wipe the frying pan to soak up the bacon fat.
Bowl of Shreddies for starters.
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My only addition to all of this is that tomatoes should never appear on a fried breakfast. They aren't even food!
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When north of the border mine would definitely include square sausage and haggis. Totally agree with the comments re quality ingredients. For me though mushroom will never set foot near the plate, tomato if grilled or fried needs to be soft, chips have no place at breakfast and eggs whether fried or poached have to be runny.
I am glad nobody as recommended Richmond sausages, they have to be the worst prices of shite ever.
Good lord Lampoc, I thought you would know better. I have had an Ulster fry, a full Scottish and I once sat down in a hotel in north wales and asked for a full English, I was only young at the time, that's my excuse. Being a Londoner it is certain that the best breakfast comes from there and 100% the best black pudding is from the old country and is called Clonakilty.
I shall be monitoring you.........................................
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It’s a fry-up so the bread must be fried bread - none of this bread and butter malarkey!
Sausage - Richmond’s will do, nothing fancy.
Bacon - Back, well done or fat trimmed.
Black pudding - compulsory.
Beans - yep, any decent brand.
Eggs - Fried
Hash brown - I’ll take a couple of they are going but can live without.
Fried bread or Toast - White
Buttered bread - probably white again but can live with whole meal or even granary.
Brown sauce - HP
Pepper - plenty
Orange juice - fresh
Coffee - Strong
Keep your tomatoes and fungi.
The only changes for me would be fried eggs, 2 at least and plenty of toast, not bread, preferably enough toast to have homemade marmalade on a round or 2 at the end kind of like a pudding course, 2nd mug of proper tea preferably.
IMO Yanks can't do breakfast due to their tendency to try and sweeten things, additional pancakes, maple syrup and so on.
Although toasted onion bagel, cream cheese and lox is pretty good but it aint a fry up.
Clonakilty is okay, but not superlative..........
McLeod's Stornoway blackpudding
Speyside Speciality blackpudding
Ramsays of Carluke blackpudding
Malcolm Allan blackpudding.
All eclipse Clonakilty for quality.
Richmond's sausages? Richmond's goddamn sausages? Ye gods man, have some dignity.
I agree with Lampy but has to have fried bread and fried eggs.
Not scrambled and never those poncey poached buggers!
Those are only for the Christmas Eggs Benedict!
Plus I don’t mind the tinned plum tomatoes when hungover!
PS. Anyone who recommends Richmond sausages needs to be banned - utter tripe!
Again a yes, I agree!
Powters Newmarket sausages, fried egg, black pudding, Heinz beans, decent smoked bacon, fried Soda bread and fried potato bread. Need to have plenty of HP sauce as well.
Bacon - crispy
Sausages - high quality and grilled
Black pud - fried
Eggs - fried and NOT NEXT TO BEANS AS PREVIOUSLY SPECIFIED
Baked beans - critical to a decent fry-up. Sorry Franky
Mushrooms - fresh and then fried
Bread - either fried or just as bread. No toast
Tea - Yorkshire with one sugar
Perfection
The best cooked breakfasts I’ve had have been in Scotland. Venison sausages and fried oatmeal, omnomnom.
These days I fry very little, so my sausages (from a good butcher) and bacon (dry cured and smoked) are cooked in the oven, and the eggs poached. Vine tomatoes grilled.
Black pudding is best sliced and eaten as-is, it doesn’t need frying or grilling. I’ve had to set waitresses straight when they’ve said “you can’t eat it raw!” It’s a cooked meat product- if it was raw it would be a bucket of blood!
Sourdough bread with a good salted whey butter.
Baked beans- preferably Heinz but thanks to the salt and sugar nazis I add a good pinch of salt and a teaspoon of sugar. And they have to be heated slowly in a pan, not microwaved unless you want bullets in watery gloop. Most importantly of all they have to be in a separate bowl SO THEY DONT TOUCH THE EGG.
And this talk of teabags is just wrong. I use loose leaf tea most of the time but as a cooked breakfast is an occasional indulgence why compromise on the tea? We need something stronger than a regular breakfast tea, so I’d go with a good Assam.
You have nailed it except the haggis which IMO works really well.
black and fruit pudding is an amazing combo
I prefer a skinny cheap sausage with a fry up. Lord knows why, I’d not touch them otherwise, but in amongst the melting pot of grease they work for me.
Heinz beans only? That's delusional. They changed the recipe and removed all the sugary salty goodness and it now tastes rubbish. Cross & Blackwell for me.
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As per my post above, it is but the work of a moment to put the missing sugar and salt back in.
Actually one of the things the Yanks do well is proper hash browns. Big patty of shredded potato and onion, lightly crisped on outside, well seasoned. Brilliant with a dash of Tabasco or 6. Not like Satan’s frozen triangles you get here.
I don't have any real beef with the humble baked bean. In the right place (toast) they are fantastic however, on a fried breakfast I find them just a little too sweet.
If I do have them they have to be cooked until they go all fluffy, basically over cook them.
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sausages (3) and bacon (4) from here: http://www.fieldsofanlaby.co.uk/prod...chers/sausages
eggs fried (at least 2)
tomatoes - here i prefer tinned plum
beans - branston
fried onion
fried fresh mushrooms
1 fried bread
1 buttered toast
2 slices nice white bread buttered
small slice black pud (a newly acquired taste, i hated it for years, but a small piece is now appreciated)
huge mug of strong yorkshire tea, or a good coffee.
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Tinned toms rule in north ,ya can’t get them down London Town,old the onions though
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Good Sausages are the key, but I don't get to the butchers often. After many man hours of research
, my favourite supermarket Sausages are 'black farmer'.
Not a fan of toms or beans, so leave them out.
Like a little black pudding, bought one the other day from supermarket, bury best or something, shocked to find out it was made with haemoglobin powder rather than real blood, tasted dry and awfull
does no one have chips as part of their fry-up? if its an option on the menu then its got to be on the plate for me!
nah gotta be fried boiled spuds from the day before IF you're going there. Yesterdays sprouts, fried also an option but can get a bit windy later if you've beans on the plate.
We're talking breakfast here man not brunch FFS!!
Cross & Blackwell are branded Branston now
I'm assuming the Ulster boys will be along shortly to put you all right, but anything with baked beans and no soda farl, just scrape it into the bin.
Fried bread is also a great option
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