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.

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 Scottish 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.

DSC_0846 by yodagoat, on Flickr

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 **** 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?

the lazy man/women version