One sausage? What is this, the 3rd world?
Cutbacks. There’s a cost of living crisis, man!
banger and mash
Not a bad looking effort either, no black pudding or tattie scone, and some iced coffee looking abomination over a good builders tea keeps it from perfection, but good go. Glad you liked it.
Yeah, I haven’t found any coffee shop around me where I can buy myself something better than instant coffee for home, so when I saw they had coffee I had to go for it!
There’s been a real boom in roasters over here in the UK over event years. No idea how you like your coffee but I love Roaring Stag up in Ballater, Scotland. They so online delivery, if you like a real dark roast their Dark Lochnagar is great.
I was thinking of trying this year coffee with a filter where you drop water on it, last year I tried coffee with an Italian Machine. I’m not big into coffee but I want to try different ways and the difference it makes
I’d recommend an aeropress, easy to get a good consistent cup of coffee from and pretty low cost to try.
I have a beginner question, if i’d go for an aeropress, or a simple filter. The coffee always has to be grinded before putting the water, so either I also need a grinding machine, or I would be limited to buying pre-grinded coffee which I am guessing from what I’ve looked at, is rarer to find
That is a good point, yes it needs to be ground and finely at that. The pages I but my brand from do offer to grind for you though. Also I’m the supermarkets in the UK it is mostly ground that is sold, though I don’t know how finely.
Decent electric grinders are pretty cheap, and worth it, I’d say.
But pre-ground coffee is much easier to find than beans, you just need to make sure you get the right grind for your preferences. In an Aeropress, if it’s an Espresso grind, don’t brew it for more than ~30 seconds (with a bit of a stir). If it’s a coarser grind, use the inverted method and brew it for 2-3 minutes before pressing. You’ll need to experiment a bit to find out how you like it.
You can get permanent metal filters for the Aeropress. Connoisseurs will tell you it makes a difference, I just want minimum hassle and running out of filters is a hassle.
Good coffee shops are becoming more common over there, but still a long way from the US, France, Italy, etc, where there’s two cafes on every corner.
Is that what that ‘drink’ is? It looks like mushroom soup.
Tattie scone ftw.
Separation of beans. Good. Always like to see that. I’d rather fried bread than toast and one solitary sausage is a bit mean. Overall, good effort.
I’d rather fried bread than toast
Nah, eggy bread for the win.
On a full English? That feels blasphemous.
And yet, intriguing…
This post is generating waves of nostalgia for /r/Fryup for me. We need somewhere on the Fediverse to post, lust over and critique other people’s fry-ups.
There’s apparently !fryup@lemmy.world but there’s no content yet
The differences between the classic American and English breakfasts are one of those things that make travel between the two countries so pleasing, at least for me.
Different enough from one another to feel mildly exotic, yet similar enough to make you feel (mostly) at home.
Did wonder while I was over there ages ago why no one had shown them you can fry green tomatoes too for a bit of variety. Searing a ripe one just kinda makes a mess, lol.
We don’t really have green tomatoes here. I don’t know why.
Fried green tomatoes are fairly common in the south, there’s even a movie called “Fried Green Tomatoes”
I See you’ve awoken the fry up police…
Guilty your honor!
Where is the slice of fried black pudding?
As a connoisseur of hotel breakfasts, I can say that’s one of the best examples. Maybe a bit light on the beans, but that toast looks awesome and the bacon is cooked very well. One little sausage is a bit stingy, but then I’d have traded that in for more bacon anyway. The proof is obviously in the tasting, but I’m jealous just by looking at it!
I do prefer a Scottish breakfast, though. Perfect so long as it still includes beans (purists don’t), but the potato scone is far superior to the hash brown. I’d leave the haggis usually anyway, just like you left the black pudding here.
The Toast was so good! And the Bacon was per-fect, I love bacon like that, way more than the way I found it in the US dry as a crisp and super salty, here it had juice! it had taste!
Yeah, the UK does back bacon, while the US and Canada seem to love streaky bacon. They’re both the same area IIRC, but the back bacon just includes a chunk of meat along with the streaky fat part. This can be challenging when cooking, as the fat and the meat cook at different rates. When you fry it you have to render the fat at a very low heat, then raise the heat gently to cook the meat. If you do it just right you can get crispy fat and tender, chewy meat on the same piece. Typically in commercial kitchens they just oven cook it, which is easier to achieve a more consistent result, but I love doting over them in a frying pan.
You do need to be a little careful what you buy. Most bacon is cheap and injected with brine by an automated production process, whereas Dry Cured bacon is done by hand. It’s a little more expensive, but generally much better quality. The gold standard is that one little old butcher’s shop that has an old hand crank machine to slice you fresh, thick cuts of bacon - if you find a place like this, try their pork pies, especially when they’re fresh.
Beans belong on the plate 😡
You are incorrect in more than one way.
Tip them out.
Needs more
Needs more sausage but aside from that it’s pretty alright looking. Maybe go in with the brown sauce.
They asked me If I wanted any sauce, this was my first time and I had no idea their where some so I said no, will give it a try mate!
To be fair if someone asked me for ‘brown sauce’ I’d probably turn it down too. Enjoy your stay.
Racist.
Brown and mustard for that meal
What’s the ratio of Brits who always have full English breakfast vs other types of breakfasts like French (white coffee an croissant ) or cereals for example ?
Almost nobody, it’s not meant to be a daily meal, more like once a week or so as a treat.
Lack of blood sausage is a deal breaker for me
“Black pudding”, surely.
Blood sausage sounds yuk, black pudding is … well I’m not a huge fan (hands in passport) but at least it sounds like it should be palatable.
Black pudding not just because of the name, but because blood sausage is a much wider category that black pudding is only one part of. Would be a bit weird to get Korean blood sausage with your full English
I foresee heartburn and congestion in the pipeline for your future.
english breakfast:
protein ham
protein bacon
protein sausage
protein eggs
protein beans
protein/garbage blood sausagegarbage mushrooms
garbage tomatostarch hash browns
starch toast…but the beans make it superior to anything americans do. seriously beans with breakfast wtf are americans doing wrong. missing beans that’s what
but seriously…choose a protein or two and ditch the fucking mushrooms jfc wtf is wrong with people it’s not an animal or a plant its a fungus i don’t want to eat the stuff that grows at the base of your toilet.
ditch the mushrooms and it looks delicious. and add more beans.
How does it feel to be so wrong about mushrooms?
I’ve lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and see no benefit to having the beans anywhere near a full English plate.
I’ve lived in the UK for 42 years and see no benefit to having beans
I’ve been alive in the UK for 46 years and also see no benefits to having beans.
They’re just delicious. They’re in some kind of gravy, aren’t they? Something mildly sweet that makes it absolutely wonderful to eat?
Do people call bean juice gravy?
I don’t know; that was just the word that came to mind. It could be very wrong.
It’s basically ketchup, and ketchup is horrible. Malt vinegar and tomato never belong together
Downvote for being factually incorrect about mushrooms, one of the best things that can be put into a mouth.
