It is common knowledge that the cost of living is on the rise with the price of energy, electricity and food all on the up.
People are looking for various ways of cutting down on their energy bills, including switching from electricity guzzling appliances.
One woman hoping to cut down on her usage had the "stellar" idea of whipping up a fry up breakfast in her slow cooker.
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However, the results were far from wonderful and left her "haunted for life".
Writing in Birmingham Live, Rebecca Astill said she wanted to follow a hack she spotted on Facebook to cut down on energy costs by swapping her over for the slow cooker.
She said a full fry up would cost roughly 59c (50p) in energy based on oven cooking sausages, frying bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes, microwaving beans and toasting bread.
This is compared to 27c (23p) in the slow cooker.
She set about finding whether the later method could produce delicious results and set about preparing all her ingredients: used bacon, sausages, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and baked beans.
The slow cooker method was "pretty easy", although "each ingredient required slightly different treatment", Rebecca said.
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The eggs were to be cracked into a mug and mixed with butter and seasoning, with the beans poured into a ramekin and the mushrooms folded into some foil with butter and seasoning.
The bacon had to be rolled "into tight, sausage shaped structures and stood up around the outside, with the real sausages, and the tomatoes went wherever I could find room", she said.
Rebecca then placed the items into her slow cooker and set it on low overnight for eight to nine hours.
The next morning, she woke up to "the smell of bacon tantalising my nostrils" but when she opened the lid, things took a turn for the worse.
"It all went downhill at the point when I lifted the lid of my slow cooker to reveal a hard, grey, exploded ball of what had started as egg. The rest was not much better," Rebecca wrote.
"The sausages had bent over, and instead of the crisp, juicy ones I was looking forward to, I was faced with what I can only liken to Harry Potter’s arm when he loses all the bones in it in the Prisoner of Azkaban.
"The beans were sealed under a thick, inedible skin and the bacon tasted exclusively like fat.
"The mushrooms and tomatoes were the only good bit about the meal, but who chooses a fry up for the veg? I pulled the contents onto a plate but there was little I could do to rescue the meal.
"I even tried to mash the hard ball of egg with my fork to fake the scrambled eggs success for a picture, but there was no way of hiding the repulsive grey streaks running through it. I did not finish my breakfast."
Rebecca only saved 4c (3p) by making the fry up in the slow cooker, with the experiment ending in disaster.
"I had such high hopes that were crushed by the most disgusting meal I have ever cooked. In theory, yes, it’s brilliant. It just doesn’t work," she said.
"Reviews from my family were the same as mine, with mentions of 'worst thing I've ever eaten' and 'absolutely disgusting" being passed around'. A plate of sausages and bacon would usually be lapped up, but instead has been left neglected in the top of the oven. I am not sure even the dogs would eat it.
"Scrap the notion that you need to change everything in your life to save on energy costs, and just eat the damn fry up, the way it should be cooked - fried, crisp, unhealthy and delicious."
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