Big Boy's breakfast at sea

[BlueSkyNick]

Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Imagine this hypothetical scenario.

Four chaps with large appetites, left the Solent one evening, with a decent beef stew made in advance by SWMBO, which is all gone by about 2200. Next morning as the sun comes up, they are a couple of hours off the coast of Northern France. Been a chilly night as a cold front has passed in a southerly direction, bringing N/NW winds - not too strong, assume its 3/4 for the purpose of this exercise.

Being a slightly manky old boat, (although the engine is the mutt's nuts!), she has a traditional L-shaped galley unlike the linear version of certain shiny new craft. The cooking facilities are a 2 burner stove, small grill and oven.

On board you have ample supplies of bacon, sausages, mushrooms, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, maybe even some black pudding, and eggs. Along with plenty of bread to be toasted, and a 4 large tea mugs, all the ingredients required for a welcome hearty breakfast.

So in what order woud you prepare everything, to serve everything together piping hot and tasty - with nothing hitting the deck in the process ?

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[Talbot]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

I always do the toast first otherwise I burn it! Then cook the sausages, and black pudding, and boil water for first essential cup of tea and thermos jug ready for follow-on stuff. stick cooked sausages and black pudding into the oven with the plates that are warming up, then do the bacon and mushrooms on one burner while warming up the beans and tomatoes in the other, transferring cooked stuff to oven whilst pouring out the fruit juice. Finally cook the eggs and serve. Sit back whilst drinking second/third cup of tea and munching on toast and marmalade and remind everyone else that its thier turn to clean up after the meal. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Ohdrat]

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oh dear what an easy one.. first apply pink frilly gingham check pinnie as on Claymore..

then start the oven.. start the fry up (excluding the eggs..)

Put kettle on for morning brew..

Once fry up ingredients are done place in warm oven

Kettle boiled serve up 1st brew - put beans on

once hot place in oven too - replace with full kettle for 2nd brew

start gently frying / scrambling the eggs / eggy bread

As soon as kettle boiled start making stove top toast

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[claymore]

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Light Oven
Beans and tomatoes in together in a pyrex dish and get them warming up
Sausages and bacon under grill and black puddings in frying pan gently.
Mushies in saucepan in either butter or milk and cook gently - they don't need much
Oven down to half and plates in to warm - transfer sausages and bacon here when cooked
Blackpuddings into oven to warm when done - around same time as bacon.
Bread under grill when it is clear
Mushies drained and into oven
Eggs fried last or poached in mushie milk
Kettle on for brew whilst eggs being cooked
Could free up a burner and pop some bread in pan to fry
Transfer contents of stove onto table
Plates, bacon sausage, black puddings, mushies, beans, tomatoes, eggs (fried bread)
toast.
Tea or coffee
Pass me the Gaviscon.

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[BrendanS]

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Sorry, but you cannot pinch Zef for this weekends Cherbourg trip. He's already booked. Along with Pat (his brother, Paddywackcocker), who can catch any wayward plates falling off the table once served up, with lightening reflexes, even if sitting up on top of the companionway at the time!

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[powerskipper]

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Get someone else to cook it and give them plenty of unhelpful advice, once ready call all to eat and say you helped cook it and therefore do not have to do the washing up ./forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Twister_Ken]

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Tome's yer man for this - he has a live-in cook who never appears above deck except to light another cigarette. Inclined to do clever stuff like sprinkle chopped herbs on top of the grilling tomatoes at just the right time to give of their flavour without going carbonisé. Can't remember his name, but every boat should have one.

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[ShipsWoofy]

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No No No, you are all wrong.

Chop up bacon, sausages etc. put in frying pan. Break eggs into bowl and whisk. Pour on eggs. Put lid on and make coffee.

Once cooked, divide breakfast omelet into four and put into sandwich with ketchup. Et Voilà breakfast buttie. We used to have this every morning when I was working on one trawler and I have to say after a nights working on deck it was something quite special to look forward to.

In bumpy weather nothing beats it, it is acshully better than chocolate.

Then there is Winalot!

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[Gunfleet]

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So for this meal of yours to be any good we have to induce starvation by standing all night on the deck of a storm tossed trawler surrounded by stinking fish? Presumably a proximity to Iceland gives it that extra pazzazz!

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[Becky]

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This post has the scent of some hidden agenda, and a perfect recipe for heart disease. Surely you can come up with an appetising breakfast that is also good for you?
Suggestion;-
a) Muesli, some types are quite exotic in their ingredients, especially those without added sugar
b) Eggs scrambled or poached. (No nasty fat, served on nice brown bread toast)
c) Tea is good for you, or coffee
d) Most bacon is largely poor quality meat product with lots of added water. I can't see the sense of buying water at the price per pound of bacon. You can buy Tesco's 'finest' without added water, written on the packet. That is better. But grill it preferably.
But what is this post really about?
Incidentally, how many people fry food on board? There is an enormous aerosol of fat droplets rising from a frying pan that will coat all the surfaces in the saloon. HWMBO loves cooked breakfasts, but we don't have a frying pan on board. I use a non-stick saucepan with the lid on. Much cleaner

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[l'escargot]

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Place sausages in non stick tray in oven, on moderate heat. When half cooked, turn sausages, add thin slices of black pudding and the mushrooms to tray. After ten minutes, turn black pudding, stir mushrooms to soak up fat and place bacon over top. Heat tomatoes in saucepan. Drain juices from tray into frying pan and turn up oven to crisp off bacon. Fry eggs in frying pan whilst cooking toast under grill. Put eggs on plate and heat beans in frying pan. Put on kettle. Put everything else on plates and serve. Make tea as kettle boils.

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[tugboat]

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Burrrppp! Yum/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[graham]

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Bacon and egg sandwiches passed up to the cockpit could prevent a mutiny from whoever is on watch at this crucial hour(especially if its me!)

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[Ohdrat]

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you can cook me breakfast anyday!

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[tcm]

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Hm, most people seem to have got a sensible sequence of food cooking. But, the key ingredient of a succesfukl fry up is WARM PLATES. Otherwsie the whole lot goes cold v quickly, imho

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[StugeronSteve]

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Wrap the bacon, sausage and mushrooms in foil and stick them on the engine. Even if it's blowing a hooley you're not going to be able to resist listening to that lovely new engine purr! Smoked mackerel should be off the menu for a few years now, although they must have been so easy to catch when they came up for a cough.

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[BlueSkyNick]

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Ummm, I am starting to feel a bit inferior now. You are right about warming the plates, but not sure ours will tolerate the oven - they are the Melamine camping variety, you see.

Ought I to borrow the Wedgewood stuff from my mother's dining room?

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[ParaHandy]

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kipper? engine couldn't have been that bad as he's missed these off the menu ... ?


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[BlueSkyNick]

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How could you be so sceptical about a fellow Owners Association member? Everything I post has a serious point, and I would not dream of using the forum with a hidden agenda!! (Quick, pass that bucket !!)

It was simply a test of how many different ways there are to prepare a hot breakfast at sea. I usually find myself juggling pots, pans, plates, etc but always deliver in the end. The occasional fried egg has been known to be flavoured by the cabin sole, though.

It seems there are some interesting variations and new ideas to try - but I'm afraid the healthy option is not one of them !!

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[dralex]

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SOunds nice- will try the breakfast omlette next time. I love the definative bacon butty- fry the bacon, then chop some fresh tomatoes, put the bacon to one side and fry the toms. Push those to one side and fry thick slices of white bread- put it all together and YUMMM- leaves the other burner for the kettle so you can have tea at the same time.

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