Countdown Full
English Breakfast
35 minutes
Imagine you are in a hotel on Hastings seafront. You are at the stove, pricking the sausages, stirring the mushrooms, scalding your hands on the tea in a floral apron, talking about ‘sunny side up’ as the rain buckets down outside. Set your countdown timer for 35 minutes.
Ingredients (per person)
2 sausages
2 rashers of bacon
1/2 tin of Baked beans
2 slices of toast
2 eggs
Milk
6 mushrooms
Cup of tea
Fruit juice
Equipment
1 frying pan
1 spatula
2 spoons
3 saucepans
1 glass bowl
Toaster
Foil
Set the countdown for 35 minutes
35: Put the frying pan on high heat
34: Peel the mushrooms, remove their stalks and cut into slices
32: Add the sausages to the frying pan
26: Turn the sausages over and turn the heat down to medium
20: Turn the sausages again
17: Turn the sausages again
14: Making sure the sausages are cooked all over, remove them, wrap in some foil and set aside
13: Put the bacon in the hot frying pan
10: Put the mushrooms into a small pan with a knob of butter, a pinch of pepper and herbs and heat on medium
9: Turn the bacon over
8: Open the can of beans, pour into a saucepan and heat on medium-low
7: Crack the eggs into a glass bowl and whisk with a fork, adding a dash of milk and 2 twists of pepper
6: Put the eggs into a small pan with a knob of butter and heat on medium-low
5: Boil the kettle. Stir the mushrooms and eggs.
4: Make the tea however you like it. Put the bread in the toaster or in the frying pan with the bacon if you like fried bread (add a dash of oil and turn up to high)
3: Stir the eggs and beans and mushrooms and check the bacon is not sticking
2: Continue to stir the eggs. Get out the plates
1: Pour the juice. Put the toast on the plate, add the sausages, bacon, beans, mushrooms and wait until the egg is the consistency of porridge before spooning onto the toast
0: Let’s be avenue – the full English breakfast.