Americans Try a Full English Breakfast - Making our First Fry-up!

[@TheMagicGeekdom]

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. Watch our video trying to make Toad in the Hole for the first time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4XYeKyAhJWAgs0&t Trying to make Sunday Roast: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWm2qIiYlphkebs&t

[@itsmephil2255]

My Mum loves putting salad cream in her baked beans, I think it's disgusting but she has done it for years 😂

[@robvinton1628]

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 😂

[@stevecreaton3453]

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 :)

[@marleneclough3173]

I have never eaten black pudding we never had it as a child so never had that

[@martinvegas1327]

Just put a knob of butter in your beans, if you ever make fish chips and mushy peas put vinegar in the peas👍

[@tonycasey3183]

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

[@Mike-km2ct]

Yes, if you want the authentic experience using the cheapest ingredients possible. Go to a pub if you want it to actually taste good.

[@LordElpme]

The more truckers/Cabbies there the better. typically it's considered a good sign

[@WookieWarriorz]

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.

[@amfwelsh]

@@Mike-km2ct exactly that

[@Silentauditor974]

Nothing done in oil… everything fried in dripping… heat the beans in the bacon fat.

[@carpathianpsychonaut]

As a first try of "Americans doing a full fry up" (and there's a surprising number of videos here on KZbin) 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!

[@maursyf16]

Me too, I'm salivating.

[@Rachel_M_]

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 😁

[@johnross2924]

A true Brit never actually says the word "kudos"! 🤓🇬🇧

[@sac5608]

@@johnross2924 alot of brits say kudos

[@benhodkinson6467]

Literally torturous to watch it eaten without a knife! I’ve never been disappointed in you before😢

[@benhodkinson6467]

Wait I see it…

[@roberthartley6629]

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.

[@eantonia7620]

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.

[@LPR579]

I had a childhood giggle every time she said baps 😂😂

[@funkyboda]

So did I🤣🤣

[@johnross2924]

Grow up 🤭🤣

[@marklondon9004]

They look like great baps, though 😂

[@terencemcgeown2358]

It's a Welsh roll.

[@steviegibson5847]

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.

[@hugeroastpotato]

In England we usually follow up with a full English coronary.

[@openorwap5412]

😂👍🏽

[@janewilson8676]

I see you still haven’t mastered the art of using your knife and fork the British way!

[@white_clover767]

Its excruciating to watch

[@andrewlaw]

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.

[@geoff1201]

As I was taught as a child - don't use your fork like a shovel.

[@tbeau6663]

@@white_clover767 ...worse than that!

[@Steven-in5gg]

Why does it bother me so much??😂 Is it from having it relentlessly hammered I to us as children? ​@@white_clover767

[@ginger3269]

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.

[@ftumschk]

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 :).

[@knobrotknobrot]

​@@ftumschk strange

[@knobrotknobrot]

Exactly

[@eddieaicken5687]

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.

[@peterd788]

That's not really possible in the US because Americans can't use cutlery.

[@tonycasey3183]

I'm pretty sure that that cup of tea is grounds for revoking your UK travel visa.

[@Digeroo123]

Knife in the right hand fork in the left pointing downwards.

[@ynys_mon6928]

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).

[@joebloggs2534]

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.

[@S-North]

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!

[@andrewpinks3678]

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.

[@roger5159]

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!

[@susanlane8803]

No totally wrong, it's been brought in by fast food places, Fried bread is normal Hash Browns are American!!!

[@garrywalker8714]

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!

[@ftumschk]

Haven't had a Cumberland sausage for yonks. They're fabulous.

[@tbeau6663]

Pour baked beans over Welsh Rarebit!

[@suegermaine5730]

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.

[@vallee3140]

I agree about the eggs, got to be dippy

[@terencemcgeown2358]

Hash browns aren't English. To be authentic it's a bubble & squeak instead.

[@PeterChelmsford]

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.

[@annother3350]

Streaky is common and acceptable

[@p_ct8953]

No it isnt common and isnt acceptable​@annother3350

[@incrediblefruit]

Definitely need to be fresh sausages though and yes you're right about the bacon...

[@MrTrilbe]

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

[@andybaker2456]

​@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!

[@juliefrost8079]

I am always baffled by how Americans are unable to use cutlery - any American I’ve seen eating on KZbin handles a knife and fork in the same way I’d expect an alien who’d just landed on Earth would.

[@tbeau6663]

Indeed.

[@dh7314]

Pmsl

[@peterd788]

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.

[@wayneclark2823]

The most important thing about a Full English is the ability to use a knife and fork correctly x.

[@stuartcarden1371]

Oh very much!

[@nicksmith3dvv]

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

[@lifeisblessed4802]

My mother always eats it that way,i just get everything in a sandwich and munch

[@jedidarkside]

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.

[@number1discodave]

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!

[@Defender200tdi]

Beans, beans, good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you....

[@Thee_Penguin]

That's the one I know 😂​@@Defender200tdi

[@Christisthyking]

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.

[@angelalester2767]

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!

[@JohnSmith-h8u]

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

[@philn8122]

Vegetable oil is really bad for you, Its not even made from vegetables. Lard or coconut oil is the way to go.

[@paulpenfold2352]

@@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.

[@angelalester2767]

@@JohnSmith-h8u good shout

[@laurenanderson7330]

@@paulpenfold2352 never heard of anyone doing that before

[@scottythedawg]

why everyone is scared of oil? put some oil in the pan.

[@danhodson7187]

I know, those eggs were crying out for oil!

[@ThéroigneRussell-s6v]

Or even lard or dripping !

[@gillianrimmer7733]

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.

[@Bill_Dingsite]

I'd rather have it as a evening meal too at home

[@adrianbrown8887]

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. :)

[@danowen79]

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.

[@grahamcarswell6652]

My tip, the best black pudding to buy, is Stornoway black pudding tastes amazing

[@TonyMeyrick-bd6ou]

Totally agree. By far the best I ever tasted

[@Savagetechie]

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.

[@tonys1636]

No, Clonakilty is the best. And their White Pudding.

[@helenmccann1338]

Cumberland sausage is the best

[@joannedelaney3866]

I second this! Can’t beat proper Cumberland sausage!

[@p_ct8953]

The ones with no apple those are best for bbqs

[@SgtSteel1]

Lincolnshire is just as good. I'd be happy either way.

[@incrediblefruit]

Not if you don't like cumberland sausages

[@vinnyganzano1930]

So long as it's a decent percentage of meat 👍

[@darrenwilson8042]

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.

[@roachpole1]

Branston beans are very nice

[@jjwatcher]

I agree, or my local Lidl ones, too much liquid in Heinz.

[@incrediblefruit]

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

[@Savagetechie]

the branston bigger beans were my favourite.

[@alexrafe2590]

Branston beans are very good, Heinz needs to pack in more beans and less sauce. I’m also quite partial Cross & Blackwell baked beans.

[@alexrafe2590]

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.

[@MacAndCheese000]

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!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@Tugga74]

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 👍

[@john_smith1471]

What’s missing on the table is toast with bitter marmalade, toast in a toast rack, marmalade in a ramekin dish.

[@jamesaston2031]

You know you've had too much Full English when you want to go straight back to bed after

[@demps6919]

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.

[@jaimemurphy2208]

Use a knife AND a fork when eating. It really helps.

[@ftumschk]

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.

[@julianbarber4708]

@@ftumschk Barbarian!

[@franticstorm7411]

@@ftumschkand chase the food all over the plate when you can't stabit.

[@THE-THATCH]

Neanderthal, the flag gave it away. Who's boots are these shoes 😂​@@ftumschk

[@timjones2441]

Love you two your not afraid to try new things and you keep yourselves open minded ❤️👏👍

[@tonycasey3183]

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

[@Rachel_M_]

Beans Absolutely have to have butter added, but I add it at the beginning.

[@garyskinner2422]

There we go someone who knows what they're talking about

[@mattsmith5421]

No ty

[@p_ct8953]

How to die young but you might aswell considering the rest of the breaky

[@tbeau6663]

The Co-op sells a nice tin of baked beans

[@DavidHeywood_Legend]

Cracking fry up, well done

[@janbow5124]

Baked beans are lovely with a knob of butter added and a few splashes of Worcestershire sauce when you are heating them up.

[@jaysmith584]

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

[@tezscanlan6418]

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!

[@p_ct8953]

Tin tomato's and sugar in tea is a crime

[@tbeau6663]

Oh yes.....bubble n squeak!!

[@Ross141]

nah pgtips all the way

[@jamesrowe3606]

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.

[@lisanelson9979]

In Ireland we have soda bread and/or potato bread.

[@alisonjones1]

White pudding too

[@eddieaicken5687]

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.

[@callumglasgow3105]

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.

[@jezlanejl]

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.

[@IEMTPractitioner]

Ha ha, just heard you on John and Elis. Thank you for the comments about York!

[@lynnejamieson2063]

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

[@raymondporter2094]

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.

[@andrewpinks3678]

@@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!

[@Incognito-turnip]

I admire the effort you have gone to here. Bless you guys x 😊

[@grahamstubbs4962]

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.

[@Pablopax4]

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.

[@warrencox8290]

YES! Love onion and chilli with my beans. Also a fried egg and chilli sauce sandwich is delicious.

[@Twirlyhead]

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.

[@Phiyedough]

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.

[@St4vl31gHb-o2r]

Secret sauce tip: A simple generous sprinkling in your beans of green dried "Mixed Herbs" (the kind you get in a little glass shaker) add some extra colour and taste to create an instant "gourmet" version. And it looks just great sprinkled on top too if you prefer to add a little greenery that way.

[@carlgibson285]

I always add dried coriander to my beans for a similar effect, although I know coriander isn't for everyone.

[@tbeau6663]

yes..... Tarragon!

[@colingoode3702]

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.

[@ftumschk]

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.

[@tbeau6663]

@@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.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

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.

[@janelithgow7727]

When I lived in east London at my local cafe you could ask for 'double bubble' with your fry up.

[@chrisperyagh]

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.

[@Ross141]

tbh i gasped when they flipped the eggs lol

[@guyallen2449]

Nice analysis. IMO, Black pud is the essential.

[@gunstar7538]

Good job.... kara (cara?).... You hold your fork weird 😂

[@kevd1313]

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

[@AcornElectron]

12:40 seeing breakfast eaten without a knife makes a bit of me die inside. Glad it was redeemed by our lass in parts.

[@monicawarner4091]

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.

[@AcornElectron]

@@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?”.

[@davepage5049]

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

[@MarlynMeehan]

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.

[@tbeau6663]

I'll look out for it!

[@bpfromowc]

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.

[@PammiePlusParks]

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!

[@coffeeguy6673]

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 !! 😋😋

[@helenmccann1338]

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

[@kelvinlambert4249]

I would always grill breakfast under the element. The bacon goes really crispy and the fried/toasted bread absorbs the juices well. Beans cooked separately in a pan. Grilled cheddar cheese as an optional extra. Small glass of fresh orange to clear the palate. Gallon of tea afterwards.

[@Bessie66]

Fried bread from a white sliced loaf is also good as well as tin tomatoes along with a local butchers bacon and sausage 👍

[@Cleow33]

Tinned tomatoes will ruin a full English every time - too wet. Fried tomato is the way to go.

[@helenyorke9409]

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 ❤

[@Pauld616]

Try the eggs scrambled instead of fried 🙂

[@andrewcooper7869]

she did 😂

[@paulrobson7887]

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.

[@Phiyedough]

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.

[@what_im_eatin_uk]

Pro tip for the beans add a small amount of grated cheese

[@dtulip1]

Honestly I LOVE that you guys love our food 🥰 When I was a kid the ONLY sausage for a full English breakfast was the Walls sausage, they are fatter approximately double a chipolata, in the last 20 -30 years sausages have undergone a sort of gourmet fication (yeah I made that word up) and now there's so many varieties I think its ok to go with whatever you prefer ❤ Looks delicious, I'd come to your cafe for this 😁

[@mojojojo11811]

Dear Lord please teach Americans how to use a fork properly!

[@tbeau6663]

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.

[@mickwillis6981]

Amen to that. Drives me crazy.

[@Bill_Dingsite]

Here here. Its like watching a toddler eat

[@dee2251]

We do a number of different creams here: whipping cream, single cream, which you’d used like half & half for pouring in coffee etc, double cream, extra thick double cream and clotted cream which has the highest fat content of them all. I think that’s about it 🤔 Oh, and you did it correct, traditionally it’s fried bread not toast, which many seem to use these days. It’s fried it the fat you cooked the bacon in for extra flavour and I heat my tomatoes & beans up in the pan I cooked the bacon in too. You can used greenhouse tomatoes or tinned plum. Frying them in the pan deglazes the pan with a little of the fat, deglazes the pan and infuses the beans & tomatoes with extra flavour.

[@lliving4today]

Please watch a tutorial on how to correctly use cutlery...your videos would be much more watchable and for the right reasons.

[@white_clover767]

yes!!

[@victorwild3225]

Try putting some oil in the pan?

[@CreighExbridge]

That looks great, brilliant effort for a home cooked full-English!

[@PaladinesAngel]

If you slice some cheddar cheese thinly and then stir them into the beans as you heat them until the cheese melts into the sauce it’s so yummy. Cheesy beans on toast done this way is extra :)

[@garyhardy5785]

That tea looks anemic!

[@markhackett2302]

Get a fourth knife: a short, sharp, knife. The shorter knife (so half the size or less even of the smaller knife) is easier to handle and if it isn't serrated, can be used for either veg or meat, just not without washing between their use. Also consider a long bread knife, because a knife has to be longer than anything you are going to cut with it, and the serrations, even if they are large (so look more scalloped), mean lots of little knives all cutting the same line. A knife that is serrated like that cuts easily, and cutting easily means you aren't going to slip and don't need to put much effort to cutting. What quality steel is used is important, but that doesn't equate to a known brand, because a well known chef might get signed up on substandard knives without knowing they ARE substandard, because that chef never uses them. However, a much smaller clean knife is more useful in more places.

[@michaelwhitcombe7749]

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!

[@Phiyedough]

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.

[@JohnBurton-c8x]

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.

[@vickytaylor9155]

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.

[@1anwrang13r]

You're not wrong, but hash browns are an innovation that I wholeheartedly endorse.

[@Neil-t4m]

Black pudding is the must have

[@buckleyi]

What on earth did you do to the eggs!

[@mrjonnyburkecovers]

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!

[@lynn9931]

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.

[@markhackett2302]

The sausages were called "Bangers" because they were so full of water, which boiled into steam, so it would burst out in a "bang" unless you pricked the skin so as to let the steam out. Not the case, except with REALLY cheap sausages (and prawns: the bag of frozen prawns is mostly ice by weight...). Another thing is with beans you can get it a fair bit thicker if you fry it up, put a LITTLE bit of fat in a frying pan, just really to start it off, and then when melted and hot, pour in a can of beans, and fry it, it will get a bit hotter and a lot thicker cooking than sticking it in a saucepan, but that latter is how most people do beans at home. Also try your mushrooms sauteed: fried in butter. Those are larger, so slice them up, four slices (cut from one side to the other) should be sufficient, but small button mushrooms can be done as-is. Just wash them, heat up some butter in a frying pan, put the mushrooms in the butter and fry them. Cook them thoroughly, the butter gives them a different taste and if you use salted butter, they will taste tangy from the salt too. Lastly, if you want fried bread, do it in deeper fat, because the black bits are when the bread hits the hot metal surface of the frying pan. If you put an inch or two deep frying oil instead, then the bread won't hit the bottom and the bread will be golden brown instead. You want the oil quite hot, the cooler the oil the greasier the bread when it cooks. Best either a thermometer or a cube of bread should change colour to a wheaten gold in 10-20 seconds, 10 is probably too hot, but depends, more than 30 will cook things but bread will take longer and therefore absorb a lot more oil before it is cooked. What you can do is either decant into a chip fryer or when cooled into a plastic container, the wet surface is likely sufficient for bacon or sausages, but eggs you'll want enough to splash over the eggs. Fried bread will last longer if you put them under a warm plate, so you can cook the fried bread first, then decant some to do the eggs, then decant the rest and do the meat. And then drop in a knob of butter and fry the mushrooms. Or you'll need two frying pans. A tip for doing chips: warm oven, first fry of the chips to "just starting to turn", but not cooked, at a lower heat, say 30 seconds for the bread cube test, decant the chips to a caserole dish and placed in the oven to keep warm (it will also somewhat cook the potato while in there) but you can turn the oven off then, you can then cook whatever else you have, and at or near the end, heat up the oil very hot 10 seconds for the bread cube test, then take the warm chips out and hot fry to crisp the outside. The potato inside should be then soft and well cooked from the first frying, and the outer skin stiffened by the second frying (the second frying should be quite quick to do). Check the times out with a real cook, however.

[@cazanne]

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.

[@BCHZA]

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!

[@crisisgear]

Tip for your fried bread, copy my grandad's fried bread (best fried bread I had), you have to butter both sides of the slice of bread and cook till golden brown.

[@danielpushman9597]

My father served in the Navy pre-WW2 and of his pleasant memories was beans for breakfast on Saturdays.

[@johnince64]

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.

[@saralewis8455]

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

[@valwhelan3533]

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.

[@mej6519]

heres a little tip for the black puds, place the fried egg on top of the black puds, and break the yoke over the black puds. theres posh restruents in london that charge a fortune for that same dish.

[@Stephen-Fox]

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.

[@corvidkusnos]

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