While toast or cereal is an acceptable breakfast, sometimes only a full English will do the job.
The downside, however, is a fry up is usually full of fat and grease, making it one of the less healthier options for your first meal of the day. In a bid to make the British staple less "guilty", one woman wanted to see how a full breakfast cooked in an air fryer would taste.
Rebecca Astill cooked bacon, sausages, beans, hash browns and scrambled eggs from Morrisons in her Ninja Air Fryer AF100. And the results impressed her, Birmingham Live reports.
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Air fryers are designed to cook healthier meals in a flash without the need for oil, instead using rapid hot air circulation to make food crisp - and using around 75 per cent less fat than regular cooking methods.
Rebecca said: "I wanted to truly put it to the test, so I thought 'What is the one meal no-one could possibly put a healthy spin on? The one meal so deeply entrenched in grease and fat there is no way to eat it without feeling a small twinge of guilt?' It came to me immediately. An English breakfast."
The method
There are lots of air fryer recipes online for English breakfasts, but none with all the timings for the exact combination of ingredients she used. While people will have different ideas about what goes on a fry-up, she opted for bacon, sausages, beans, hash browns and eggs.
Here is how long each of those components took, cooking at 180C.
Hash browns - 15 minutes
Bacon - ten minutes
Sausages - 12 minutes
Beans - six minutes
Eggs - five minutes
Set yourself a target time, and add each ingredient into the frying basket the above amount of time before. The only part needing additional care are the eggs, which need stirring every couple of minutes to avoid them forming a skin.
The execution
Rebecca said: "As long as you spend time planning your method and timings beforehand, the Air Fryer English Breakfast is pretty easy and worth it for the results. Everything was crispy, and I honestly believe everything was as crispy as it would have been had I cooked it traditionally.
"The only difference was nothing was covered in that layer of grease you come to expect from an English breakfast. I enjoyed my usual treat foods without the guilt."
The air fryer
The Ninja Air Fryer AF100 is the smallest and cheapest air fryer Ninja stocks, but that is not to sell it short. It is easy to use, with every control self-explanatory without needing to read the instruction manual.
Plus it is quick, reasonably quiet for a kitchen appliance, and everything I have cooked in it has turned brown and crisp. It has four functions, air fry, dehydrate, reheat and roast.
The best part is the main basket and inside grill can go straight into the dishwasher. All-in-all, the quality feels great, it is a lot smaller than other air fryers on the market, and I have had no fails so far with it.
The Air Fryer is currently on sale on Ninja’s website for £99.
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