Americans Try a Full English Breakfast - Making our First Fry-up!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Despite our adventures across the UK, we've somehow never experienced a proper Full English Breakfast at a restaurant. So today, we're fixing that... in our own kitchen! Join us as we attempt to recreate the iconic British meal, a Full English Breakfast or fry-up, complete with black pudding, back bacon rasher, fried bread, and yes, beans for breakfast. We even include the somewhat controversial hashbrowns. We'll share our honest reactions, compare them to typical American breakfasts, and probably make some rookie mistakes along the way.
What do you do to elevate your Full English? Any tips or tricks? Let us know in the comments! And please let us know your recommended beans brand so we can try them on a future trip.
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What do you do to elevate your Full English? Any tips or tricks? Let us know in the comments! And please let us know your recommended beans brand so we can try them on a future trip.
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My Mum loves putting salad cream in her baked beans, I think it's disgusting but she has done it for years 😂
I have full English 1-3 times a week! ….. other days I have bacon and egg sarnie with HP sauce! …. For me there isn’t one essential item they are all as important as each other 😂
An English cant be eaten one thing at a time :) It needs a bit of fried bread covered in a biteful of all the other ingredients. Its the combination in the mouth that makes it. Looks good mind :)
I have never eaten black pudding we never had it as a child so never had that
Just put a knob of butter in your beans, if you ever make fish chips and mushy peas put vinegar in the peas👍
Top tip: When you come to the UK next, don't have a full English in a restaurant - find a decent greasy spoon caff for the best FEB
Yes, if you want the authentic experience using the cheapest ingredients possible. Go to a pub if you want it to actually taste good.
The more truckers/Cabbies there the better. typically it's considered a good sign
True, In northern ireland too its classic to have an ulster fry at a bakery or just a roadside food van. If youre out in the country a lot of the vans will use locally made irish butter, the taste is unbeatable. Never had one at a resturant before.
@@Mike-km2ct exactly that
Nothing done in oil… everything fried in dripping… heat the beans in the bacon fat.
I've seen a few Americans make but you are the first to use the oven to bring it all together like a true Briton. Kudos 😁
A true Brit never actually says the word "kudos"! 🤓🇬🇧
@@johnross2924 alot of brits say kudos
Yeah the oven is nice if youve got the time to meander through a fry up. Me and my flatmate have one every morning before work tho, so its all 4 hobs utilized and mico for the beans!
Literally torturous to watch it eaten without a knife! I’ve never been disappointed in you before😢
Wait I see it…
So true. You can always tell if someone is from North America if they only use a fork or mix their food then use a fork.
Well, they are American. It is not meant to offend, but at the end of the day, they will have their ways. Imagine you trying American breakfast and having someone claim to be disappointed about the way you choose to eat. Not that serious. At the very least, try to see the good. They are embracing and sharing specific things from your country.
Shame these two children have not learned how to use a knife and fork yet.
As a first try of "Americans doing a full fry up" (and there's a surprising number of videos here on RUclips) yours is probably the best I've seen yet. It genuinely looks like many I've made/eaten. It's 8pm in the evening currently and I want one. That's the best compliment. You two should be proud!
Me too, I'm salivating.
I had a childhood giggle every time she said baps 😂😂
So did I🤣🤣
Grow up 🤭🤣
They look like great baps, though 😂
It's a Welsh roll.
In England we usually follow up with a full English coronary.
😂👍🏽
You need a little bit of everything on the fork at once, that's the way to eat a full English, bangers and mash, a roast....any English food. It is about all the flavours together.
Edited to add: splash of worcestershire sauce in the beans, cook them low and slow whilst you make everything else. Bake the bangers, grill the bacon, mushrooms separate with a knob of butter. Have a slither of the black pudding as a salty seasoning with each bite.
Sadly, mixing eggs and tomatoes/beans is no-no for me. There's a kind of reaction between the acidity in the tomato juice and the sulphur in the egg which leaves a disgusting "farty" taste in my mouth. In fact, I'm not one to mix my foods anyway; I see a Full English as a meal made of 5 or 6 separate, delicious courses :).
@@ftumschk strange
Exactly
I don't add worcestershire sauce to the beans (I sometimes add grated mature cheddar and cracked black pepper if I'm just having beans on toast), but I agree with cooking low and slow. Driving some water off thickens the sauce.
That's not really possible in the US because Americans can't use cutlery.
I always think of hash browns as an American addition to the full English. They seem to have become pretty standard, but I don’t recall every having a hash brown until the late 70s or early 80s. Definitely an interloper to the full English scene. Personally, I prefer bubble and squeak (fried up veg leftovers from a roast - potatoes, onions, cabbage and carrot).
SCOTTISH BREAKFAST - generally a tattie scone, square sausage, fried egg, bacon, black pudding and either tinned plum tomatoes or beans. Optional extras - fried bread, mushrooms, hash browns (quite a recent development). Heinz used to be the best beans but are pants now. Branston beans is my go to now. And Yorkshire tea bags.
With a full english you should try and get a piece of everything on one fork and eat it all together for the ultimate flavour.
The quickest way to elevate baked beans is to add a knob of butter when they are heated and stir into the sauce (in French it’s called Monter au beurre) it both thickens the sauce and enriches it. As a bonus, you then don’t need to butter the toast when eating beans on toast.
Great choice with Lincolnshire sausages guys. They are infused with herbs and I love them in a full English (Cumberland and just pork without herbs are okay too). In fact everything you have done represents a full English. Looks like you nailed it!
For an extra special one try Bubble & Squeak with it (left over potatoes and vegetables fried up in a frying pan) which is also traditional, particularly in the South of England.
Traditionally also, before we in these Isles were introduced to oils of many sorts in the 1970's and 1980's, Breakfasts were fried in pork lard which is outstanding in flavour!
Slight variations with Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh and Scottish (square sausage) Breakfasts!
No totally wrong, it's been brought in by fast food places, Fried bread is normal Hash Browns are American!!!
The four pillars of my full English breakfast are two fried eggs with runny yokes, crispy bacon, TINNED chopped tomatoes and mushrooms. Then some or all of my optional items to add are Cumberland sausages, hash browns, baked beans, black pudding and fried bread. Delicious.
When frying eggs I never flip them, I just splash hot oil from the pan over the yolks to make them white.
When eating I like to cut bits of the breakfast items up and dip them in my yolks. I would never cut the eggs up, that yolk is to be carefully guarded for dipping!
About fifteen years ago we were on holiday in Turkey and we got chatting to a waiter. He told us he loved a full English but couldn't understand how we English eat one every day! I had to explain that virtually no-one actually does that, that they're more of an occasional treat for most people.
When I was young, baked beans on toast was one of my favourite meals. I rediscovered them about 15 years ago and now have them at least once a week with poached eggs on well-browned toast.
Loved the video and those breakfasts look scrummy!
Haven't had a Cumberland sausage for yonks. They're fabulous.
Pour baked beans over Welsh Rarebit!
I used tin tomatoes for a while but then I bought organic small plum tomatoes. Cut them in half and grill them with the bacon. It’s a whole new ball game the taste is out of this world. You will never go back to tin tomatoes again.
I agree about the eggs, got to be dippy
Hash browns aren't English. To be authentic it's a bubble & squeak instead.
I'm pretty sure that that cup of tea is grounds for revoking your UK travel visa.
In my opinion, the two(not one)most important things in a Full English Breakfast are normal pork sausages and proper back bacon(not streaky). Good video.
Streaky is common and acceptable
No it isnt common and isnt acceptable@annother3350
Definitely need to be fresh sausages though and yes you're right about the bacon...
only acceptable sausage for a full english is either Lincolnshire or Cumberland, but they have to be got from a local butcher, even better if the butcher is local in Lincolnshire or Cumberland and yes the cumberland has to be a proper ring, anything else is just a poor attempt at a cumberland and a full english
@annother3350 Maybe where you live. Personally, I've never had streaky bacon on a Full English. The only time I've ever had streaky bacon is in America, or wrapped around a chipolata at Christmas!
Baked beans are lovely with a knob of butter added and a few splashes of Worcestershire sauce when you are heating them up.
My tip, the best black pudding to buy, is Stornoway black pudding tastes amazing
Totally agree. By far the best I ever tasted
I love Stornoway black pudding but I actually no a lot of folk that don't like it because its so different to what they associate with black pudding.
No, Clonakilty is the best. And their White Pudding.
Another way to cook the beans is slow and low, ya have to stir regularly but the sauce reduces and they become more stodgy and sweet.
Glad you guys are coming back!! 🎉🎉🎉
That all looked pretry spot on! The only thing i'd say is your eggs (sorry). Add a covering of vegetable oil to your pan, heat and crack the egg into it. Then you want to either flick the hot oil over the egg with a spatula, or do the same with a large spoon. This sets the egg. Well doneness is personal taste, but flipping over to set the egg is not really the norm. Still, great effort!
Try a dash of worcestershire (pronoumced wuss-ster) in your beans, or Henderson's Relish common here in Yorkshire. Gives a great tangy umami taste to the beans.
Baps - yes to bacon and sausage, a fried egg is a good shout too!
Veggie bacon isn't great here, the sausages are slightly better but quality varies depending on brand.
Loving the videos and your passion for our great country!
can literally use the tiniest amount of oil just to make sure they dont stick... once the bottom is cooked put a tbsp of water in the pan and cover it with a lid.. the steam will cook the top and you wont die of a heart attack at 35
Vegetable oil is really bad for you, Its not even made from vegetables. Lard or coconut oil is the way to go.
@@JohnSmith-h8u I've started doing this. Also, because bacon in Britain is mostly terrible, it's necessary to boil it off in an inch or so of water to get all the crap out of it. Then drain and fry as normal.
@@JohnSmith-h8u good shout
@@paulpenfold2352 never heard of anyone doing that before
Wow, that fry up looks amazing. Well done guys. I'm an anglophile so I absolutely love how you both do your best to try English food the right way. I really appreciate and love you both for doing my country a good service with all of your videos. Thankyou. Can't wait for all of your future videos. Love to you both and your furbaby. :)
Your vlogs have shined light into my life during some hard times and i'd like to say, thank you, you are amazing, good people. Also I am not being kind to be kind, but dam that fry up is A+, 100%, 10/10, Class A a certified banging English Fry Up.
Stir knob of butter in your beans once they are cooked through. The juice is glossier and richer. If I buy branded beans I prefer HP or Branston, but mostly I buy supermarket own brand
Beans Absolutely have to have butter added, but I add it at the beginning.
There we go someone who knows what they're talking about
No ty
How to die young but you might aswell considering the rest of the breaky
The Co-op sells a nice tin of baked beans
We have a full English once a week, but as an evening meal - there's too much for breakfast.
Never miss a roast on Sundays.
I'd rather have it as a evening meal too at home
Sausage, bacon, egg is a must then I like... beans, mushrooms, tin tomatoes, hash brown, fried bread and toast. The yorkshire tea with milk and sugar. Occasionally the black pudding or a small bit of bubble and squeak.
Yum yum!
Tin tomato's and sugar in tea is a crime
Oh yes.....bubble n squeak!!
nah pgtips all the way
Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your beans with every meal!
Beans, beans, good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you....
That's the one I know 😂@@Defender200tdi
My fave bean joke is the one that goes, Dad asks his pregnant daughter who the father is and she replies, when you eat a can of beans you don't ask which one made you fart.
I admire the effort you have gone to here. Bless you guys x 😊
Those are decent looking fry ups. Maybe too many beans for me, but there’s a lot in a can to share between two. I think most people will mix a lot of stuff on their fork, not eat each thing individually - by and large. I went many years not even realising a full English isn’t something Americans would think to make.
Thanks!
Wow, thank you so much!
I see you still haven’t mastered the art of using your knife and fork the British way!
Its excruciating to watch
It seems an American thing to have the fork (awkwardly) in the left while they cut, they then put the knife down and swap the fork to the right hand. Just so disjointed.
As I was taught as a child - don't use your fork like a shovel.
@@white_clover767 ...worse than that!
Why does it bother me so much??😂
Is it from having it relentlessly hammered I to us as children?
@@white_clover767
Love you two your not afraid to try new things and you keep yourselves open minded ❤️👏👍
Nice job! I wouldn't have black pudding in mine,, but each to their own. You two are great ambassadors, for the UK and the USA.
Only thing missing for me is "Bubble & Squeak" which is basically leftover mash potato & vegetables (peas, cabbage, carrots, swede etc) mixed together & fried to a golden crust roughly 1/2" thick. The name Bubble & Squeak comes from noise it makes while being fried.
Hash browns are an American import & not really part of a proper full English. Fried sliced boiled potatoes are sometimes used as an alternative.
Other than that your fry up was pretty much bang on. Definitely a once in a while Saturday morning breakfast when cooked at home or, a buffet style serve yourself type breakfast when staying away in a hotel which will last you all day until the evening.
Baked beans were invented in America, too, and only really took off in popularity in Britain after being pushed as a cheap "superfood" during WWII. TBH, they weren't really considered an essential ingredient of a Full English when I was growing up in the 60s; even if they were in some parts of the UK. The first time I saw them as an intrinsic part of a fried breakfast was when I was a student in London during the mid/late1980s.
@@ftumschk They were my friend.... I'm from London and had Heinz baked beans as part of my Full English breakfast growing up in the 60's. We'd have a combination of fried bread instead of toast, chipolatas, fried eggs, mushrooms, tinned tomatoes, black pudding if you liked it and no hash browns. If it was Monday, they'd also be bubble n squeak made from leftover veggies from the Sunday roast. HP sauce was essential. You're correct, Heinz is an old American brand.
Potato based options are not entirely imported. At least in Devon there is a long history of chopped fried potato for breakfast. There was even a special tool for chopping, stirring and compacting the potato. Delicious. Sadly lost to British cuisine as so many rural and regional items.
When I lived in east London at my local cafe you could ask for 'double bubble' with your fry up.
The most important thing about a Full English is the ability to use a knife and fork correctly x.
Oh very much!
I know. It drives me crazy watching them cut food, then putting the knife down, swapping the fork to the other hand and then trying one thing at a time. And also trying to cut with a fork. If forks were made for cutting, they would have a sharper edge. Apparently it's the correct etiquette and copied from the French. Who copies the French at anything? 🤣🤣🤣. Not the most efficient way of eating. Seen many videos of Americans doing the same with a Sunday roast. Rant over.
I do enjoy these videos and they are lovely people, but you need to try a bit of everything on your fork with the aid of the knife
My mother always eats it that way,i just get everything in a sandwich and munch
In Ireland we have soda bread and/or potato bread.
White pudding too
Also pancakes... the type that the English refer to as Scotch Pancakes (ie. not crepes). As with the Soda and Potato Breads... cut in two and then one half fried and the other grilled.
Branston beans are very nice
I agree, or my local Lidl ones, too much liquid in Heinz.
I've enjoyed beans all my life and only tried Branston a couple of years ago but they are the best i've ever had
the branston bigger beans were my favourite.
Branston beans are very good, Heinz needs to pack in more beans and less sauce. I’m also quite partial Cross & Blackwell baked beans.
Baps are just what Americans call hamburger buns. I like them called baps because lots of people on both sides of the pond will use them for a variety of sandwiches or whatever.
Years back they took the sugar out of baked beans, first thing I do is put it back.
Saturday morning was our day for a fried breakfast when I was a kid, some of us had back bacon others streaky, my mother usually had both in ready supply.
Tattie scones and fried bread was always on the plate with the beans being on occasion swapped out for tinned tomatoes just for the sake of 'variety'. Sausage, bacon, fried egg and tomato, haggis never black pudding as I can't remember any of the six of us liking it, and my father often also having kidneys piled onto his plate as well. Thinking back he had often began breakfast with kippers as well.
A full Scottish may include any preferred combination of what’s on a full English with the added options of Lorne sausage (also known as square sausage or slice), white pudding, fruit pudding, potato scones, fried pancakes, fried soda scones and haggis. Though there are likely options that I’ve missed but a full Scottish will pretty much always have Lorne sausage and potato scones and everything else is optional and open to interpretation, as in tomatoes can be fresh ones halved or left whole and cooked in a frying pan, under the grill or in the oven or warmed through tinned plum tomatoes, mushrooms can be sliced, quartered, halved or left whole and fried, grilled or oven roasted, eggs can be fried, poached or scrambled. Link sausages can be any style you prefer because that’s the main point, you have the things you like the most, the way you prefer them cooked in the quantities and proportion you crave. There are so many options for a fry-up, that every thing is about personal preference. You don’t have to have a cup of standard UK style tea with it, you can have any hot or cold drink you want, you can have as many or as few of the carb options you want, the same goes for the meat and vegetable options.
I will say that there are many great sausage and bacon options for vegetarians and vegans in the UK…you can even get vegan black pudding.
Oh and just in case you’re unsure what I meant by link sausages, in Scotland that is the term used to specify the typical type of sausages
I very much prefer Scottish (Stornoway) Black Pudding to typical Bury/Lancashire/Yorkshire black pudding. Much more herby/spicy. And I like a THICK SLICE of it. (That has reminded me that I have a full Stornoway BP in my freezer so I will take it out and thaw it to have with breakfast tomorrow). I can replace it when I go to North West Scotland next month.
With our North Yorkshire fried breakfast we have fried eggs (the white set, the yolk warm but runny), but sometimes poached eggs or Scrambled.
@@lynnejamieson2063 ,love a slice of fried clootie dumpling with a Scottish breakfast, the sweetness is great with the saltiness of bacon and a good soft fried egg!
a tip for beans, pull out the mushroom stalk, around 7, it cooks slower then the cap, add some finely diced red onion. cook off for 10-15min, add can of beans, simmer, add three dashes of worcestershire sauce and a teaspoon of dark brown sugar, then redue the liquid until sticky
What’s missing on the table is toast with bitter marmalade, toast in a toast rack, marmalade in a ramekin dish.
Looks lovely, in England the home of the Best breakfast is not a restaurant you need to visit a cafe aka the Greasey spoon, just go to a local you will be surprised.
Lincolnshire sausages contain sage as the herb which is fine if you like sage.
It's a herb that's also typically found in poultry stuffing in the UK.
Cumberland sausages have a more spiced flavour.
You have to experiment a bit to find your favourite.
With fried eggs, fry them near the end in the accumulated fat and don't flip them - you need them swimming in hot fat so they don't stick. Then do the fried bread at the very end to soak up all the flavour infused fat in the frying pan.
tbh i gasped when they flipped the eggs lol
You know you've had too much Full English when you want to go straight back to bed after
Just heard you guys on the Elis James and John Robins Pod. My planets ate aligning. Good work and when you are back over here get on their show as John offered - will get your YT channel massive exposure.
You need to pick up 3 or 4 components on each fork full. You really need to use a knife and fork to eat a British breakfast. Small bits combined makes the taste.
3:40 the best sausage for breakfast is the one you like best, thick links with apple or a thin chipolata with herb style, as long as it’s pork or beef content is high then you’re probably on a winner.
Stornoway black pudding is one of the best. It is what a lot of the up market hotels/restaurants in London and other big cities use.
I'll look out for it!
HP SAUCE MIXED IN WITH THE BEANS (DURING COOKING) IS A MUST.
In Northern Ireland we have a breakfast called an Ulster Fry. Consists of bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, potato bread & Soda bread, with mushrooms and tomatoes optional extras. It's delicious, the potato bread and soda bread makes it unique.
When you cook a fried egg you need a hot pan, a little fat and a lid. Break the egg, when the bottom looks cooked add some water, put on lid and when the top of yolk is white remove and serve. The yolk should still be soft. Your breakfast looked good 👍
Ha ha, just heard you on John and Elis. Thank you for the comments about York!
Fried bread from a white sliced loaf is also good as well as tin tomatoes along with a local butchers bacon and sausage 👍
Tinned tomatoes will ruin a full English every time - too wet. Fried tomato is the way to go.
The completed breakfast looked “picture perfect”!! The pack shot of the meal you would see on a pictured menu! Well done! But …. Just one thing… eggy flipping over is a no no nooooo in my world! You need a dippy yolk to dip the corner of the fried or fresh bread into it!
For a first go at making one 💯👍🏻🥳
This is probably why Jeremy is the chef in our household. 😂
You made that rather well. As for eating, Brits would normally mix the different elements up quite a lot in the same mouthful; that's actually the most enjoyable way. A runnier egg works better for that too.
Some time ago I was in New York with a friend, having dinner at a restaurant. We conducted ourselves in our usual English manner whilst at the table and eating our food - correct use of knife and fork, napkin on our laps etc. A delightful little elderly lady walked past our table and commented positively on our table manners. I explained that we were British and her response was 'well, that explains everything'. She went on to explain that she used to teach food technology at school and American children have no idea how to use a knife and fork. Thank God we were born English. Oh, and the way you slice the fried egg into the beans, GROSS.
White pudding on Scottish and Irish breakfast as well as potato farls for Irish same as tattie scone for scottish.there is also Glamorgan sausage in Wales which is a vegetarian sausage
When cooking the bacon, keep the bacon grease in the pan. Do not clean it and put fresh oil in.
Then cook the mushrooms in the bacon fat. You will be elevated to another level flavour wise. The mushrooms taste next level.
Everything else you have done is absolutely fine.
P.S I'm hoping you removed the plastic outer layer from the black pudding before cooking lol
It looks excellent. I'm a fan of a UK show about bed & breakfasts & I've seen a lot of full Englishes & yours looks better than most I've seen.
I love those Walmart hashies too!
Not every day😂. Maybe once a week for some. I'm a once a month person.
Ireland also has white pudding on their breakfast🤢.
I sometimes swap the beans for tinned whole plum tomatoes. Also swap the beef steak tomatoes for whole cherry tomatoes.(On the vine if possible)
I dip one side of the bread in the dripping then grill just that side and sprinkle salt on top. Much less greasy but still all the flavour ❤
Use a knife AND a fork when eating. It really helps.
I only use knives for food that I can't cut easily with a fork, and I hardly ever use them for "helping" food onto the fork itself - forks are usually capable of doing all that on their own.
@@ftumschk Barbarian!
@@ftumschkand chase the food all over the plate when you can't stabit.
Neanderthal, the flag gave it away.
Who's boots are these shoes 😂@@ftumschk
Love your attemp and actually looked really good. I'm on a mission to find the best English breakfast ever. Love to hear from you guys
Cumberland sausage is the best
I second this! Can’t beat proper Cumberland sausage!
The ones with no apple those are best for bbqs
Lincolnshire is just as good. I'd be happy either way.
Not if you don't like cumberland sausages
So long as it's a decent percentage of meat 👍
For me, essentials are bacon, sausage, beans and egg. Optional (but still desirable), mushrooms, hash brown, grilled tomato and black pudding. For most Brits this is too complicated to have on a daily basis, I would say I have some combination of the above at the weekend or a special occasion. It’s a must and a treat for me whenever I stay in a hotel in the UK.
Yes, I've only had such a breakfast when staying at a B&B or hotel but it is useful when on holiday as you don't always know if and when you can get lunch.
Amazing job guys! It looks delicious! Everytime I see Americans making English breakfast components they fry the bacon and sausages. I always cook these under the grill (broiler to you) as it allows some of the fat to drain away, an attempt at making it a bit healthier. I still fry black pudding, mushrooms and eggs but I use a light spray of vegetable oil in the pan. I love fried bread but haven't had it for years as it soaks up a lot of oil, not too healthy. I still find it odd when Americans say they are "making eggs", honestly the chicken took care of that! You are just going to cook them! Once again, great job! Glad you enjoyed the full English!
I would probably only fry the eggs and grill everything else. I've never actually made a full English though as I just eat cereal for breakfast. I'm not keen on grilled or fried tomato so I would have that raw.
Very often bangers used for breakfast are the thinner versions, called here chipolatas Lincolnshire sausages are normally, a lot flatter than the ones you used. By my experience black pudding is not normally found in the south of England, it’s something I associate more with the north of England. One thing I enjoy about a cooked breakfast, is the fried slice which is a slice of fried bread. I rarely eat breakfast at a cafe, and it’s something I rarely see on the menu. I have to ask for it and while I do enjoy it, I always find they have literally soaked it in fat. If you try this in your own kitchen I recommend, only really coating the bread in the, lightest amount of cooking oil. Put the smallest amount of oil in the pan, get it hot and just lay the bread down into the oil, turn the slice over and do the other side. The slice is done when it’s a golden brown colour on both sides, and never leave the bread to soak in the oil.
why everyone is scared of oil? put some oil in the pan.
I know, those eggs were crying out for oil!
Or even lard or dripping !
@ThéroigneRussell-s6v I was just going say, not oil, FAT! Lard/Dripping is a game changer and makes fried bread to die for!
That looks pretty darn scrummo guys !! I'm a Brit and love a full English , would certainly polish that off that you lovingly cooked, oh yes !! 😋😋
Good job.... kara (cara?).... You hold your fork weird 😂
I've seen my mum make a full fry up for 4 people on a 1 hob camping stove. THATS peak breakfast action( the beans fried in a dirty pan is 👌). A valiant attempt none the less!
Pro tip for the beans add a small amount of grated cheese
Hi from Wales. Welsh version of fried breakfast. Look up Glamorgan sausage, laverbread and cockles. My Dad cooks his mushrooms in milk in a frying pan and pours the cooked milk over it all. Try eggs sunny side up and tomatoes are usually just cut in half and fried cut edge down in the pan until they are almost collapsed. Enjoy. Xx
Back bacon (aka peameal bacon) is common in Canada which is why americans call it Canadian bacon. We do of course also have streaky bacon which is the most common style bacon. Many restaurants in part of Canada will offer baked beans with breakfast.
I am always baffled by how Americans are unable to use cutlery - any American I’ve seen eating on RUclips handles a knife and fork in the same way I’d expect an alien who’d just landed on Earth would.
Indeed.
Pmsl
I lived in the US for over 10 years and it never got old that Americans were amazed that I didn't eat like a toddler.
I live in Lincolnshire, so Lincolnshire sausages are what I normally use. They just have some sage and thyme added to a normal sausage mix. I usually fry eggs a lot hotter and put a lid over the frying pan to steam the top of the yolk rather than risking flipping the egg ...
Try the eggs scrambled instead of fried 🙂
she did 😂
Hi both , a good pork sausage or Cumberland and Lincolnshire .are good for brekferst , I toast my bread as that can hi in the toaster . Yorkshire tea is so good with a fry up . Brown source and mustered on your sausages and black pudding for me . That looked very good to me ,some times I do scrambled eggs on toast .I have beans on toast for lunch in the wintertime. Most mornings I have toast and jam or marmalade with a cup of tea . Or sometimes I have serials . I also make a smaller brakferst and we call it a fry up with chip's in the UK. Thank you for sharing your journey. Take care and all the best. 😊😊👍👍
12:40 seeing breakfast eaten without a knife makes a bit of me die inside. Glad it was redeemed by our lass in parts.
I know what you mean, but the way she holds and uses her fork spoils it for me. It's a relief when she goes back to just using her fork.
@@monicawarner4091 yeah but NO knife? Just jabbing at stuff and biting bits off? My mum would be raging and my Grandma would be asking “were you dragged up?”.
Full English is what you normally get if you stay at a boarding house or hotel in UK (Bed & Breakfast). You would not normally get as big a quantity as you had there. It looked like you forgot to remove the plastic film from the black pudding. In Scotland you often get Lorne sausage which is in square slabs.
I always fry some onion in my beans and add a bit of chilli sauce. My Jamaican born wife added fried plantain to the mix which worked really well.
YES! Love onion and chilli with my beans. Also a fried egg and chilli sauce sandwich is delicious.
When I was growing up in the 60s. I remember my Mum and possibly my Gran too cooked everything in the frying pan other than the Baked Beans. This was to ensure all the juices went into the frying pan and then were soaked up by the Fried Bread. So to me plain fried bread is an alien concept.
As an English working man I consume my fair share of Full English Breakfasts.
You got this pretty much exactly right, even down to the brown sauce and the only drink that should accompany the king of breakfasts, tea! Well done!
I'm more used to sunny side up eggs rather than over easy ones for an English breakfast, but the thing about eggs and breakfast is it tends to be 'however you typically like them' rather than a prescribed method for them, and I don't think I've ever seen sliced tomatoes rather than... A tomato, cut into halves, fried on one. I'd also typically have toast and fried bread.
Knife in the right hand fork in the left pointing downwards.
One thing about hash browns, the more traditional version would be to have bubble and squeak instead. It's basically left over potatoes and vegetables from a previous meal, mashed and then fried). Sadly these days you rarely find it in a full English and it just gets replaced with hash browns.
A full English breakfast also usual traditionally has either sliced fried potatoes or bubble and squeak made from left over mashed potato and cabbage mixed together and fried.
You're not wrong, but hash browns are an innovation that I wholeheartedly endorse.
I sometimes make a full english and I tend to bake my sausages now (on a grill in the oven so fat drains) along with some hash browns and maybe potato waffle, bacon in a pan (lean smoked back bacon), tomatoes (halved rather than sliced) in a different pan with sliced mushroom. Baked beans in microwave. I don't bother with the toast and I don't like fried bread which is optional component. I don't bother with black pudding although if I am eating out then I will have it. Just at the end I move the bacon (which is nice and crispy) to the other pan and fry the eggs where the bacon was.
That tea looks anemic!
I always put a bit of butter in my beans!! Though I usually get Tesco brand beans, but I know people swear by Branston beans
We don't usually have hash browns with breakfast and yes, the beans must be Heinz, black pudding is nicer grilled and a bit crispy, sausage have to be pork lol.
But well done in giving it a try and I think you would have enjoyed it more at a cafe in the u.k rather than cooking it at home.
Now...can I just mention I had to laugh out loud the way you attacked your egg rather than cutting it and your OH didn't use his knife which is a no no haha.
I'm British but live in Canada and agree the breakfasts are so different, I like both.
Have a great day.
Nice analysis. IMO, Black pud is the essential.
Please watch a tutorial on how to correctly use cutlery...your videos would be much more watchable and for the right reasons.
yes!!
Try putting some oil in the pan?
I love how you guys give everything a really good go
For mine i have sausages, smoked back bacon, hash browns, toast, beans and either scrambled or fried egg x
What on earth did you do to the eggs!
Two spoons of butter in your beans is a game changer. Amazing how cutting down on salt has effected some products taste. Eggs bread with beans is my fave breakfast but I do normally save that for weekends and do the old toast or cereal in the week. Use natural yoghurt instead of milk makes it more stodgy 😊
Dear Lord please teach Americans how to use a fork properly!
They don't want to know. I've seen some literally stab a steak and hold it steady on the plate whilst sawing bits off with a sharp knife. Biggest culprit was my cousin's husband who is 72 now. Too late for him.
Amen to that. Drives me crazy.
Here here. Its like watching a toddler eat
Hi, I do love your videos, Please keep them up :) I am from Nottinghamshire UK, That does look a very good all day breakfast, My wife tells me to make this very hearty dish, is to cook the sausages, then bacon, then everything else in the pan. to soak up all the flavors.
You made a fabulous breakfast but then spoilt it all by holding your folks in that way. I had to stop watching because I find it repellent to see cutlery used so badly. I would have to leave a restaurant if saw forks being used in such a way.
My father served in the Navy pre-WW2 and of his pleasant memories was beans for breakfast on Saturdays.
Always mop your finished plate with a slice of bread and butter, and tea should be strong to break down the grease in your pallet.
Also a full English breakfast is mostly known as a fry up and very often an evening meal or a late breakfast known as brunch. Which is mid morning and is breakfast and lunch together, brunch
Scotland here - and I’m pescatarian so my traditional Scottish fry up would be - vegetarian sausage, fried eggs, mushrooms, veggie black pudding, veggie square sausage, veggie haggis, beans, tatie scone/hash brown all with brown sauce. For meat eaters it’s the same but not veggie ingredients, plus some people like a fried tomato as well (I don’t really like it so I don’t include it). But yeah for Scotland it’s the two different types of sausages, haggis, tatie scone that makes it Scottish. Some people like smashed avocado as well on the side with the toast/fried bread too (I do like this). You’s made a good full English though!