Amid the cost of living crisis and soaring costs of energy bills, people are looking for cheaper ways to do everyday chores. Following the soaring demand for oven alternatives, a man turned to his trusty slow cooker to undergo the ultimate test - cooking up a full English.
The popular breakfast is known for its large selection of food to make up the tasty dish, ManchesterEveningNews reports. Unfortunately, for Symth Harper, the important eggs came out an "abomination" despite his high expectations.
Smyth was keen to discover whether the full English breakfast could be cooked overnight in the slow cooker and was left with a mixed review with equally amusing results.
The Facebook user, from Blackley, posted a teaser picture of his slow cooker breakfast attempt on his social media page - with the promise of sharing the results with friends, which he then did in full.
The 45-year-old went into detail of how his meal panned out, captioning his post, "slow cooker full English breakfast: a review".
Smyth, who works for Lancashire County Council wrote: "We recently succumbed to the hype and bought a slow cooker. We've had very good results with chicken curry, pulled beef and hearty stews, so I thought I'd give a full English the slow cooker treatment."
Initially starting with lots of potential, Smyth admitted that he was impressed by the short prep time of just five minutes.
He simply rolled up the bacon along the sides of the slow cooker, put the egg with a blob of butter in a cup, and then assembled hash browns. and black pudding. Meanwhile, he placed his baked beans in a trusty mug.
Leaving the breakfast overnight ready to devour in the morning, he wrote: "The smell this morning was good... And you can see that the final result - looks - amazing."
He swiftly added: "But looks can be deceiving because will we be doing this again? No. No, no, no."
While the sausages and bacon tasted "lush" and were a big success, he admitted that the black pudding was "hard and lacking in flavour".
"Beans have no place on a breakfast plate and impossible to get wrong, so meh," he added.
He continued: "Two of the hash browns were like eating shards of glass laced with diamond dust; the other two had collapsed into mush.
"But oh my god, the eggs. The eggs were cooked, but the process changed them from the burst of sunshine they should bring to every breakfast plate to a horrifying mix of green and grey. Somehow, their soul had been removed.
"As I put them in the bin I could hear the screams of the damned from the portal of hell whence they came. I had to scramble some fresh eggs in the traditional style."
After some persuasion from friends, he posted a follow-up picture of the eggs which were unlike anything they ever expected. They featured a peculiar grey hole-filled formation after the slow cooker treatment.
Finalising his verdict, Smyth said: "In conclusion, some of it was delicious, some of it was edible, some of it was beans, and some of it was an abomination in the eyes of god and men.
"This was an interesting fresh take on what really is the nearest thing the English have to a cuisine, but I'm afraid the score is a hard 4/10. Don't bother."
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