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

Dakota Dan

Podge201 wrote: »

Any real man could eat that no bother.

Ok Podgy 😀😀😀

jimgoose

Dakota Dan wrote: »

How could any normal person face that in the morning?

I don't know about "normal", but this marine can sure assault the likes of it.

In the matter of potato - I do like sauté spuds from time to time, and my take on tattie bread is a good big baulk of a thing about an inch thick with mayonnaise and a dash of olive oil as a binder, plenty of chopped onion and a good shot of thyme and parsley. I tend to have both of those as potato with dinner though, I wouldn't include them in a fry. I'm not overly gone on hash-browns either.

RWCNT

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Toast is messy and largely pointless with a fry.

So you just fork pieces of sausage, rasher and egg into your mouth like a madman rather than making them into a delicious toasted sandwich?

RWCNT

RWCNT wrote: »

So you just fork pieces of sausage, rasher and egg into your mouth like a madman rather than making them into a delicious toasted sandwich?

You make them into a delicious proper sandwich.

Brock Turnpike

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

You make them into a delicious proper sandwich.

Spot on

ReginaldSmythV

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

You make them into a delicious proper sandwich.

Toast is an absolute must with a fry.

Talking about a fry, airfryer is humming away with a full load of sausages, rashers and pudding for a good mid week feed for dinner! Fried eggs and chips* and a load of Batch toast and lashing of tea to complete the deal.

*part of a teatime fry only

Brock Turnpike

Wells Steep Newscaster wrote: »

Toast is an absolute must with a fry.

Talking about a fry, airfryer is humming away with a full load of sausages, rashers and pudding for a good mid week feed for dinner! Fried eggs and chips* and a load of Batch toast and lashing of tea to complete the deal.

*part of a teatime fry only

Fresh batch is far superior to toasted batch

jimgoose

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

You make them into a delicious proper sandwich.

You put proper, Christian butter on the toast, and plenty of it, followed by two piping-hot back-rashers, and then relish, revel and savour the consuming of the resultant minor edifice. And don't be going around like some class of a Baluba.

jimgoose

jimgoose wrote: »

You put proper, Christian butter on the toast, and plenty of it, followed by two piping-hot back-rashers, and then relish, revel and savour the consuming of the resultant minor edifice. And don't be going around like some class of a Baluba.

Dirty flaky crumbs going all over the shop. Sliced pan, pile of butter, and whatever you can fit in it. Dipped in the eggs.

Brock Turnpike

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Fresh batch is far superior to toasted batch

Not for me, it’s rarely I’d eat bread not toasted at home anyway. Always toast it for making sandwiches etc.

ShatterAlan

jimgoose wrote: »

If you can find a driver of a modern Actross or Globetrotter smelling of diesel then I doff my cap. That aside, I agree. "Oh Royal is the Routier... " ðŸ˜

Ahh, fannies who drive them new-fangled rigs with the jacuzzi in the back and the ambient music / lighting would only be eating cous-cous anyway.


I'm talking about real truckers who drive smoke-belching Hinos and eat Yorkies by the box load in between fryups.

The heel of the batch is class when you are lucky enough to get one three quarters of an inch or so thick. No point in ruining it in a toaster.

ShatterAlan

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Wouldn’t agree there. That’s like taking the advice of a “white van man” on breakfast rolls.

You’re talking about people who would eat dog food if it were fried or “sopping” with grease, all washed down with a bottle of lucozade and a fag. Hardly a “refined” palate.

I tell you what, maybe try getting your breakfast somewhere other than a garage or shopping centre. Once we’re through to the other side of this crisis, of course. You’ll find there’s places far superior to the muck you’re swilling in one of those “Kay’s Kitchen” or “Kylemore” type establishments.

The last couple of breakfasts that impressed me, personally, were in The Hazel House at the foot of the Dublin Mountains and Castlemartyr Resort Hotel. Lovely stuff.

It was a dark day for the “upmarket” breakfast when the Millstone on Dame St took their one off the menu. Very dark indeed.

Then we'll just have to disagree. You can have a great fryup and you can a crappy one. The establishment is irrelevant

salmocab

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

The heel of the batch is class when you are lucky enough to get one three quarters of an inch or so thick. No point in ruining it in a toaster.

Heel of the batch toasted with butter immediately deployed for maximum melting with marmalade spread on is the finest of all bread products.

ShatterAlan

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Then we'll just have to disagree. You can have a great fryup and you can a crappy one. The establishment is irrelevant

One of those faux posh ones would be a nightmare if you wanted a proper fry.

ShatterAlan

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

One of those faux posh ones would be a nightmare if you wanted a proper fry.

Well said.


How can a plate of perfectly cooked bacon, eggs, sausage, black and while pudding, toast, tea, preferably a spoon of bubble and squeek style potatoes....then add your beans, mushrooms, tomatoes...fight it out amongst yourselves be fcuked with by the following:


A medley of


hand picked Romano tomatoes, drizzled with a hint of Himalayan salt
"Award-winning" sausage sourced from the finest farms (IS IT ****!!)
Bacon cooked to your liking accompanied by craft hand massaged fcuking pudding from the Golden Vale.
A single egg, skilleted on a Teflon pan by Michael The Archangel


And a selection of teas that would make a Punjabi farmer spunk his bags.




Gimme peace.

YFlyer

Increase chance of having severe Covid19 effects.

YFlyer

YFlyer wrote: »

Increase chance of having severe Covid19 effects.

Not necessarily.

Podge201

Pound of sausages in the pan there, pot of tea drawing. Nice veg option.

YFlyer

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Not necessarily.

Eating significant amount of fried food negatively affects heart health.

YFlyer

YFlyer wrote: »

Eating significant amount of fried food negatively affects heart health.

Everyone that has caught this that hasn’t optimal heart health has died. There are also numerous other factors that can contribute or detract from ones health.

YFlyer

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Everyone that has caught this that hasn’t optimal heart health has died. There are also numerous other factors that can contribute or detract from ones health.

That's true.

I'm sure the occasional fry be grand. The daily consumption not so much.

Carnmore

Giraffe Box wrote: »

Agree with the above.
Or why not use some type of 'dripping' or 'lard', I'd recommend 'Frytex'.
Treat yourself every morning for months on end, but do make sure to stay close to a hospital, or at least someplace that you know for sure, has a working defibrillator.
Enjoy!

I recently purchased a block of Frytex Pure Beef Dripping for the first time.

Upon reading the ingredient list, it reads beef dripping and rapeseed oil.

I do not understand how "pure" beef dripping can contain any other ingredient, especially rapeseed oil

completedit

It's very hard to know what an optimum health is. I see some IG fitness pages and their diets are absolutely woeful. Just from a health standpoint, lashing pizzas into me because "it fits your macros" doesn't sit well with me.

With a fry. It's not terrible but psychologically, that would make me feel like a lump and in turn, I'd feel sluggish. But depends. If I was working in a steel factory in Stalin's Soviet Union nd I needed sustinence, then maybe such a feed before the day starts would be needed.

The spread mentioned in the OP sounds like some hipster new age Irish fry. Perfectly acceptable as part of a diet.

I always feel better eating minimally but well. Putting effort into my dinners and coming up with nice recipes. I never feel well when I get too bogged down in nutrition. Just eat well, don't eat ****e and don't overeat.

JohnnyFlash

The fry is Ireland’s great contribution to world cuisine. Absolutely delicious. Especially our good black puddings.

Thelonious Monk

I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

blade1

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

Do refuse all other countries food or just the ones that colonised Ireland?

Thelonious Monk

blade1 wrote: »

Do refuse all other countries food or just the ones that colonised Ireland?

Just the porky ones

Coillte_Bhoy

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

Ive read and and re read this four times and am still none the wiser

blade1

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Ive read and and re read this four times and am still none the wiser

He is Thelonious Monk and likes scrambled eggs so he treats himself by tinkling the ovaries!

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I think fry ups are pretty gross and don’t get the Irish obsession with this British national dish. Pity we can’t send back frys and coronation st. Scrambled eggs with some tomato if I’m treating myself at the weekends.

Scrambled eggs and tomato. Sadness on a plate.

Thelonious Monk

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Ive read and and re read this four times and am still none the wiser

I normally just have porridge and fruit so eggs are a treat!

John.G

The only fry ups I got as a youngster in the 50s was after mass on a Sunday morning, seems to have been the custom in rural areas in those times.

whisky_galore

Used like them but find them stodgy now and I don't like tasting them repeatedly long after I've eaten them.

Potential-Monke

blade1 wrote: »

Do refuse all other countries food or just the ones that colonised Ireland?

Seems to be just ones that colonised Ireland. Tomatoes originated in South America. Also, they're fecking rank, and are only good in sauce form, ie: probably doesn't actually contain tomatoes.

Deebles McBeebles

blade1 wrote: »

He is Thelonious Monk and likes scrambled eggs so he treats himself by tinkling the ovaries!

Took me a second, very good!

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Scrambled eggs and tomato. Sadness on a plate.

I'm sure vegetarians would say the same about a fry. Wouldn't be mad into them myself these days but I wouldn't touch an egg either so, its all relative!

jackboy

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Scrambled eggs and tomato. Sadness on a plate.

Scrambled eggs lovely, but not with tomato. Buttery toast goes far better with scrambled eggs.

jackboy

jackboy wrote: »

Scrambled eggs lovely, but not with tomato. Buttery toast goes far better with scrambled eggs.

Rashers, sausages, pudding, fried bread, and more sausages goes far better.

jackboy

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Rashers, sausages, pudding, fried bread, and more sausages goes far better.

Yes that is true,

I find if I have a good fry up i can skip lunch and snacks all day with ease. Then a light dinner in the evening is sufficient. I reckon in the day I am not even consuming a huge amount of calories.

Thelonious Monk

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Took me a second, very good!



I'm sure vegetarians would say the same about a fry. Wouldn't be mad into them myself these days but I wouldn't touch an egg either so, its all relative!

I just got that too. Ha. That’s brilliant.

Gael23

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.

Should keep you nice and regular 💩

Feisar

Try cherry tomatoes on the vine roasted, little sweet bursts of awesome. Way better than half a "tomato" sort of fried.

Hamsterchops

Love a fry-up once in a blue moon, but not too often as I like to keep the old waistline under control

Aglomerado

I love a fry up when I stay in a hotel. I rarely do one for myself unless I have guests.

I'm absolutely rubbish at frying eggs, so I usually scramble them.

My dad and one of my friends have "never heard" of scrambled eggs with a fryup. Is it the extra washing up maybe? Not that they would be doing it anyway!

So if I'm doing breakfast for either of them, I just do a mountain of scrambled eggs and buttery toast rather than do a full fry up and take the criticism on yet another mangled yolk.

McGinniesta

A fry up and a ****.

How winners start the day.

Aglomerado

Aglomerado wrote: »

I love a fry up when I stay in a hotel. I rarely do one for myself unless I have guests.

I'm absolutely rubbish at frying eggs, so I usually scramble them.

My dad and one of my friends have "never heard" of scrambled eggs with a fryup. Is it the extra washing up maybe? Not that they would be doing it anyway!

So if I'm doing breakfast for either of them, I just do a mountain of scrambled eggs and buttery toast rather than do a full fry up and take the criticism on yet another mangled yolk.

After the first bout of criticism they’d be making their own.

Brian?

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

After the first bout of criticism they’d be making their own.

No, they're right. My 9 year old son can fry a perfect egg. My 7 year old is getting there, if he doesn't have it right in 6 months he'll be disowned.

There is no excuse for not being able to fry an egg.

Brian?

Brian? wrote: »

No, they're right. My 9 year old son can fry a perfect egg. My 7 year old is getting there, if he doesn't have it right in 6 months he'll be disowned.

There is no excuse for not being able to fry an egg.

Nah, slide it straight into the bin and tell them to do whatever the **** they like.

Anyway, I’d say your 9 year old can only fry a perfect egg for you. There is no “the” perfect egg.

Wanderer78

Brian? wrote: »

No, they're right. My 9 year old son can fry a perfect egg. My 7 year old is getting there, if he doesn't have it right in 6 months he'll be disowned.

There is no excuse for not being able to fry an egg.

any chance you d sell him?

tayto lover

Why are fry-ups considered unhealthy?
They’re my favourite meal and if cooked properly I don’t believe that type of food is unhealthy at all. It sustains me for most of the day and I don’t need to be snacking.