'Fun' Size Full English Breakfast - Cooking in the Tiny Pan 

What is this? A breakfast for ants??

"Luv, are you playing with your food again?" Presumably Mrs Atomic Shrimp

Next time we need a giant breakfast in a giant pan. The universe demands balance.

Mr. Shrimp's dedication to the mini little cast iron skillet is unparalleled.

That sandwich looked phenomenal

On our second date, my partner brought me a tiny cast iron pan. He'd gone to a vintage/antique shop the day before with the goal of finding "a small thing that shouldn't be so small". He gave me an even smaller one this Christmas, several years later. We watch your videos together every weekend, and the introduction of your tiny pan(s!) was such a delight. 🌈 Thanks for the videos, Mr. Shrimp!

the way you went out of your way to pick small food items is so cute. it's like the culinary equivalent of building a doll's house.

There are deeper mini-skillets sold for campfire cooking, since smaller = lighter. These shallow skillets were designed specifically for baking, where there isn't much stirring or sloshing Dessert is probably going to remain your best bet. Individual apple crumbles with ice cream scooped with a melon-baller would be cute as heck, and dessert is the course most likely to be cute. Then again, mini-pizzas...

This kind of content makes insomnia so much easier to pass the time with. I was hoping you'd do this meal when I first saw that original pan, honestly.

Your description of the "full English" sandwich being messy is exactly right. That was a creation during my university days, and was simply referred to as"fancy a big messy?"

'This sandwich is too tall to take a proper bite out of' Then takes a bite for the history books, neatly cleaving each layer of the sandwich.

I worked in a mine in remote outback Australia for a while, and every morning at 4am it was 'Heavy Industrial' Size Full English Breakfast with every ingredient imaginable and a big strong coffee. It was the best Full English Breakfast I have had anywhere, ever. That mess hall really looked after us. and that's how I got fat.

Another point of disambiguation... or rather, the opposite: I've always been fascinated by what you made and called "eggy in a basket." An egg fried inside of a hole made in bread has a huge number of different names that all refer to it (in the US at least), including: - Bird's eye (what I call it) - Egg in [a/the] basket (most similar to what you called it) - Toad in [a/the] hole (interestingly also the same as the dish you mentioned in an earlier video of sausages cooked in batter) - Egg in [a/the] hole - Eggs in a nest - Bullseye eggs - Gasthaus eggs (meaning "bed and breakfast" or "inn" eggs) - Gashouse eggs (probably a mutation of the previous one) - Hole in one - Eyeball toast (which I heard for the first time from someone else in these comments!) Among many more versions of "[someone's] eye" or "[someone famous who made it] eggs". Apparently Roald Dahl was also very fond of these and called them "hothouse eggs."

More tiny pan cooking videos please!

You could try Menemen. It's a Turkish dish that's is basically scrambled eggs with tomatoes, peppers and onions. The seasoning is quite simple and often includes a dash of herbs and a touch of heat from some chopped chili. I sometimes use chopped sun-dried tomatoes for stronger flavour, though that's not traditional. In a Turkish breakfast you often get served several small portions of different dishes cooked in little skillets - eggs and pastrami, Suçuk Yumurta, Menemen, Çilbir,Turkish poached eggs and yogurt with paprika butter.

Hello Atomic Shrimp 👋🏻 I was wondering if you’ve ever tried dumpster diving? I know you do lots of foraging & budget shopping challenges, thought it could be a neat idea for a video! It’s legal & some of the things found are astonishing! Thanks for the cool content 💫

I love this so much, I think as part of the whole this really emphasises the spirit of creativity and fun that's emblematic of the channel "Sometimes he goes looking for fossils, sometimes he makes a miniature full English breakfast, and a while back he reviewed some phones"

Hello Mr. Shrimp. I am enjoying your tiny pan journey. I used to have a real tiny cast iron with higher sides that I could fry 2 eggs in perfectly. We had a major flood and it was lost. In America we have an item called a pie iron that makes lovely toasted sandwiches. It is like 2 small skillets hinged together with very long handles so they can be held over a campfire, or your kitchen stove. A piece of buttered bread goes in, butter side down. Then an egg or sliced sausage or cheese, or all three. Another slice of buttered bread on top, then the pie iron is clamped shut. It is heated until the bread is golden brown. Instead, the bread could have sweet items sandwiched inside. So I thought maybe you could use your 2 little pans like a makeshift pie iron. You would put the buttered bread and fillings in the bottom pan, cover with the top piece of bread, and then the top pan. Once the bottom bread seems toasted, grab the handles together very tightly with your oven mit and flip them together. Does that sound reasonable? I hope that made sense.

As soon as you said you were making a full English sandwich I was instantly transported to my university days, when we were given brunch on Sundays at the canteen of my catered halls, and I used to take about half of my cooked breakfast and make it into a sandwich using two pieces of toast. Half brown always went on a corner, bacon on the rest of the surface sausage halved lengthways so it wouldn't roll around black pudding up a little and to the opposite corner from the hash brown, making a nice enclosed area for a few beans and some mushrooms, then egg on top of all that, and a load of whichever sauce took my fancy. Never a clean thing to eat but toast over bread offered some stability. It's been nearly 8 years but I can still remember the wonderful eating experience like I'd just newly had one.

As one who loves a full English breakfast but has an appetite too small to accommodate, that pan looked absolutely perfect. Finally, one I could enjoy without becoming stuffed halfway in. 😍

I have four of these pans (a bargain bin lot a few years ago with the same muffin mix you had). I use them most weeks to fry eggs. A little bit of olive oil in the bottom, heat to a low/medium heat, then crack the eggs in. The trick is to let the whites settle a little before plonking the yolk dead centre. Perfect fried eggs and a perfect shape every time!

Eggy in the Basket. Love how many different names one dish can have. Where I'm from its referred to as Eyeball Toast. Figured I'd share that as I find it thrilling to learn all the different names for foods!

My roommate bought me one of these tiny pans from a secondhand shop some time ago as a novelty. I mentioned if it was deeper, it might actually be useful... and this last Christmas she surprised me with a much better scaled version, deeper. It actually works pretty well! Although you still have the issue of scaling things down to fit it, but it's neat that I can actually use it if I want.

Your comments about the very small pan are why I didn't buy the American version at a deep discount. I'm actually glad you came to the same conclusion. I would have felt like I missed out if I had skipped it and you liked the pan. I prefer one standard cast iron skillet for cooking breakfast, rather than having a "set" of skillets of various sizes. A lot of what I have learned about cooking has come from your channel. I had watched many cooking shows in the past and, unfortunately, most of the TV cooking shows represent people showing off how many ingredients they can use or how sophisticated they can be. It is good to see practical cooking in an impractical pan. Toasting spices or heating up a small amount of butter or fat to be used in a dish might be the only uses for such a small pan. You can use the second pan turned over as a lid for the first pan.

I would love to try “tarte tatin” where you caramelise apples and cover with a pastry topping, then bake in the oven. It’s full sized version is amazing with ice cream. :-)

I love Shrimp's cooking videos. They're just so wholesome. My food tastes are quite different from Mike's but his way of speaking and presenting things just makes me happy

In the US, and I LOVE black pudding. My dad said he hated it growing up, and his mom made "blood pudding" it all the time. Being from the US, I always imagined it like a red congealed mass of custard-like pudding, kinda like ketchup made of blood... Later in life once I experienced what it actually was... I wish I could find it easily over here. Only know of one restaurant in my entire city that serves it, with a single breakfast item only on weekends, and don't ever see it in stores. 😢

I have similarly sized pans. There are real pans in that size for actual cooking. And mine are indeed somewhat deeper. I have a slightly bigger one as well. I generally use it to quickly whip something up in small amounts, or an egg or two, a small omelet to eat on toast, stuff like that. It's handy, but if you're not really used to that sort of thing, I guess it might seem like a novelty. I do think your biggest problem is indeed the fact it's not really deep enough. And I usually wouldn't recommend filling up mine too much anyway, because it doesn't heat through properly, so if you cram in 3 large chicken eggs, you may have a top layer that's still raw, while the underside is already well done. As far as suggestions go, I tend to make small amounts of sauces or extras in mine, like a small side dish. The small size can sometimes be very beneficial if you really want to perfect something. I guess you could try a Croque Monsieur, pan-fried style. With some upgrades, and caviats. You have to make a proper one and upgrade it properly, add some nice touches, but you can only use a plate and that little pan. It's perfectly doable, I assure you. Obviously you can use utensils and the like, but other than that, purely the pan and a plate. Maybe try to do it as efficiently as possible, using every stage of cooked ingredient to enhance the Croque's flavour. I don't know, perhaps that's a little too easy. How about, you have to cook a complete meal every part of the day. Breakfast, lunch and supper. Only using that pan. But it has to be able to feed at least 2 people, and has to have proper stages of dining. For example, soup, main course, dessert, drinks. For lunch. All in the little pan. Including tea, this time.

I’ve got a tiny pan. Only use it to fry a single egg when I fancy one. Feels better for washing up

These are brilliant ideas. Thank you for your lovely content. How about doing something like a raclette? You could use your wood burner as a stove to gently melt cheeses and have them with crackers or bread and pickles, chutneys etc on a cold winters evening?

I use tiny pans for just doing a full sized egg that keep a round shape. Handy for toasting sesame seeds needed for a garnish, when other pans are in use too. Love the tiny dishes and full english sandwich. I've started making okonomiyaki (japanese pancake) as a savoury muffin, so you can have all the flavours on the go.

well the pans might not be very practical, but the dishes you made are really pretty and adorable :) maybe the mini-pans can just become cute wall decor for the kitchen once you've done the upgrades you have planned

There’s a restaurant in the US called BJ’s Brewhouse that has a dessert called a Pizookie (I think it’s a made up word combo of pizza cookie). It’s a freshly baked cookie with a scoop of ice cream, and the mini version is baked in a similar pan to your mini cast iron. Choices are red velvet, chocolate chip, cookies and cream, peanut butter, strawberry shortcake, monkey bread, salted caramel, brownie.

Your voice is so soothing and your videos are a class of their own !

Genius. Skillets would look nice for "serving" (not cooking) side dishes when you do a curry for friends and family. A Balti is in fact the name of skillet used to cook the dish.

Thank you for explaining what a chipolata sausage is. It's what we call a "breakfast sausage" here in Canada.

That breakfast muffin looked amazing with that black pudding patty ❤ I’ve often wondered what it’d be like to make and sell things like that with a little mobile stall and a griddle in the middle of a city centre, like they do in Japan; I think it’d give me great pleasure.

My dad has a set of 3 pans exactly like you described, about that size, but much deeper. They're meant for doing single servings of stuff and serving it in the pan. He also has a couple that are the same but square for when you want to serve something in a tiny skillet, but are tired of circles.

Absolutely love the tiny pan. As a child, I loved cooking tiny meals over a bunsen burner. :)

I would be happy with any three of those meals of course. Fried and breakfast together just fills me with joy, fond memories of my mom making them, my dad attempting to make them, popping into a workmans cafe with my uncle while labouring, making them in a student house to excess after a heavy night on the sesh, traveling the world and indulging in hotel versions, and more recently cycling between a few cafes every weekend. If there was a meal I had to eat for the rest of my life, it would be fried breakfast.

Uncle shrimp! I absolutely love the idea of using these little pans for smaller breakfasts for the kids! You can freeze a raw egg, peel and slice it to make teeny fried eggs!

Lovely breakfast ideas there, but I know how I would use that mini-pan… I’d just use it to fry my eggs which I like to do on a small, clean pan while all the other items go on my large pan in order of cooking time. Then everything is ready (and hot) all at once and I’ve just enough time to make my tea while my eggs are frying! I have to have a clean pan for fried eggs and in a small one they keep their shape beautifully! 😋

A £1 challenge with the added challenge of using these tiny-pans could be an interesting watch.

Would this be considered a half full English breakfast!! 😂

I got the same little pan for Christmas I'm in the USA. While the little pan is getting hot I put an English muffin in the toaster. then I cook an egg with the little pan it's the perfect size for an egg. I put a slice of cheddar cheese on the egg then slap that on the English muffin with a little bit of strawberry jam. The little pain is so easy to clean . I usually just wipe it off with a damp towel. I really like the little pan.

That muffin looks amazing. Nice work. Love your channel.

Don't know if you've seen in Lidl they sell mini frying pans bought one the other day for a fiver. It has much higher edges and is absolutely perfect for 2 eggs for a sandwich.

At the outset I just knew the fun would end at the idea, but it's still sort of fun to express a fun idea, no? Incidentally, I just did a custard and pudding tasting video on my channel and cited the standard Atomic Shrimp pudding disambiguation slide! 😂

Thanks for another great video, your patience astounds me, do you do it just for us or your own entertainment ? I would hope you do things that spark joy in yourself and take us with you , the passion and enthusiasm you have for the eclectic array of topics you’re interested in is what I find fascinating about your channel and keeps me coming back for more. All the best Jules

Brown beans is the most common beans in Nigeria

The pan would look nice hanging on a peg near the fire. Maybe its destiny is to be a semi-useful fireside decoration?

You could try having a pancake battle! English pancake Vs Crepe Vs American buttermilk pancakes! Would be enjoyable seeing if you can do the traditional flip in those tiny pans

Wow, that was so absorbing. I watched it with all the relish of someone who intends to follow the recipes 😂 Seriously, though, Mike, I really appreciate your dedication to producing videos that will delight all our senses and be a compensation for ‘real life’, if we happen to be housebound. (Which I am) The little skillets have made a wonderful little memory for us all. And I’m really looking forward to whatever you do with your kitchen, because I know you won’t just throw away everything and put in a generic grey and stainless steel kitchen! I honestly don’t know how you’ve found time to continue with the videos while you’ve been moving, but a big thank you to you and the wonderful Jenny for keeping us all company while you persevere with settling in to ‘New Shrimp Cottage’. Thanks a billion 🎉

This has been absolutely, the fun-est sized episode :3 Thank you for sharing your time! Edit: that one sexy muffin! made me so hungry.

The sandwich was a really nice idea, but we can take that a step further. Full. English. Pasta. Noodles made out of bean-starch, lightly coated in butter. Additionally a tomato sauce with a touch of brown sauce, bacon and mushroom chunks and finally topped with three types of meatballs and an runny egg.

Did you see the recent Adam Ragusea video on the origin of the word pudding, really interesting.

I got about the same sized skillet and use it a lot when camping in the minivan on my own. Fits nicely on the small gas stove I have. It has two hobs, and this pan is small enough to allow a pot to cook next to it at the same time. It also doesn't take up much space when stashed away. I only need to bake one thing in it at a time (one sausage, one steak, one burger, ...), so it's perfectly sized for that.

This was fantastic and thank you for sharing this with us ❤

Main reason I bought one of those mini pans was camping trips on my bike. These are really nice on a little portable gas cartridge.. cooker..thingy (whatever those are called in english), but also work on a small open fire, if you can safely make one wherever you are. And it's much less risky than a mini teflon coated pan which could easily get too hot (toxic) or have the coating physically damaged and bits of it end up in your food

I'd love to try mushrooms someday

besides toasting spices/nuts/seeds, or using it for toasting a single muffin/little bit of bread/flatbread, i think you'll get the most use out of those tiny pans by using them around the wood stove. keeping things warm by the fire much like you did with drying mushrooms or when you're trying to cook things in the fire. unlike a ceramic plate, it's not gonna degrade with heat, and there's a handle for moving it when it's hot. oh! you can also use it for warming a small thing when you've got other things in the oven!

This is one of the most idiotic yet wonderful thing's you've done. Excellent!

Sandwich is a great idea - here in Ireland we put a full Irish into a baguette and call it a breakfast roll. Pudding, sausage, and rashers are of course going to be there, but some opt for eggs, beans, hash browns, mushrooms, et al. Absolutely delicious.

I feel vindicated that frying bread in bacon fat is an actual thing. My friends and family act like I'm insane for frying bread in the fat after I make bacon.

I got a good chuckle when I saw that tiny pan in a thrift shop the other day

My American friends point out that having beans is a weird addition to breakfast, the more I think about it the more think they have a point. I think this should turn into a series, looking at breakfast around the world.

"Now if only they made tiny loaves of bread... Oh, they do. They're called rolls." 😂😂😂 This is my kind of humor. I must've watched that part 4 times.

The Full-English muffin is a culinary masterpiece 😗👌🏻 thanks for another brilliant video Mike!

Brilliant. RU-vid cook, Barry Lewis, used to make miniscule meals, that had to fit on doll's crockery. He also, with a mate of his, used to create vast versions of things, too. A fun watch.

Those seem ideal for making some spiced oil that you can add to other things! Useful for stuff like chili ramen, indian lemon rice, or a dahl. Just toast up the spices in some oil and then add it to the larger pot of whatever you’re making

Honestly, the fork splitting of the muffin is quite simply, genius

Hi Kitchen Shrimp! This is so weird, I just watched Post10’s latest video on his second channel - New England Wildlife and More - where he cooks breakfast on a miniature stove using teeny-tiny cast iron pans. What are the odds of watching two tiny breakfast videos in one day?! Ps. Post10 is also one my favourite RU-vidrs. Here is said video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sb0M4jvRbUo.html

My suggestion is to use these pans for cooking at the table, like a raclette grill. You need a grill on the table of course, together with a wide choice of ingredients (cheese, cooked meats, raw veg etc). Then you pick and choose what you want as a combo and cook it through. Once on the plate, you set yourself up another one, and eat the first one while the second one is cooking. Overall this is probably more fun with at least four of these pans. Oh, and next time, make some tea in a flask! keep up the good work!

We have one of those! It's great for frying up a single egg. I also like mine for putting a buffer between my cheapo ibrik and my burner to keep the Turkish coffee from boiling/burning.

Educational, as always. Especially the disambiguation 😅 Honestly, it really looks good, and now I'm really peckish. As does the muffin! I learned the egg in a basket method when camping in Australia. It's the only way to make a nice brekkie on the barbie. The gas fired ones you find everywhere slope towards a central hole to dispose of fat and residue.

I thought those were quirkily brilliant ideas. They made me hungry. I've only had a full English breakfast one time, in 1986 in Harrogate, when I splurged on a nice room at a bed and breakfast. Seeing this took me right back there. I enjoyed that memory! The only thing I don't remember ever tasting is brown sauce. Where I live it gets unGodly hot. There's no air conditioning here, and we cook on well used inherited cast iron skillets. In Summer there are always times I've had to heat up even a small skillet for something small, and would rather have used a mini,. At the moment I just can't think of what small quantity of stuff I would be needing it for, besides toasting sesame seeds or spices. It'll come to me the next time I wish I didn't have to heat up a whole iron skillet.

I got a 4-pack of these some years ago which came with a cookie dough mix. I later made my own dough and had issues with the cookies spreading over the edges during the baking process. You could try the same thing while being careful as to how much dough you put in the pan to allow for spreading.

Like Marcel Duchamp and the Dadaists, I find high art in the repurposing of the mundane and the everyday. And that includes cute little novelty-items like these tiny cast-iron pans which were clearly meant for some kind of cookie-presentation.

Thank you for this inspiration and recipe. I have been very enjoying to try and making new recipes and this one is really amazing. The way you present it also has some unique and artistic approaches. So tank you for taking the time to create a video for us to watch and get inspired. All the best to you :)

Oh my goodness,that breakfast muffin is absolutely inspired

Oh boy, I do love it when the pudding disambiguation panel flashes up.

Weird: here in Australia ‘chipolata’ sausages are the small ‘baby’ sized sausages. About a finger length (an inch or two at most). Not long and thin as in your example (unless your camera makes them look bigger). They are just ‘sausages’.

I love the look of the "Full English Breakfast Muffin". Looks modern but it's still classic!

That little pan may not have been fun for you to cook in, but I had great fun watching you give it a try. Thanks for the video. I'm not sure why little versions of big things are so much fun but I love that little pan.

You can make wonderful pancakes in these pans. The shallowness can be handy for turning them over and they'll be cooked in no time. Yummy!

yorkshire puddings benefit a ripping hot baking vessel, so oven heating the cast iron would be ideal- with the added depth of the pudding rising around the edges, could be a nice way to serve a meat stew like a mini portioned roast dinner.

Very entertaining, as always. Have you considered making tiny crepes? Or perhaps making a pair of individual pizzas, or servings of Coquille St. Jacques? Maybe two small baked bries? Your breakfasts remind me of one one trip to England back in 1990. I spent two weeks at a conference at a university in the North where I had my first and only experience with a full English breakfast, and while a university cafeteria is probably not the best place to judge a nation’s food, I had Wheatabix for the rest of my visit. I also encountered a delicious buffet of Scotch eggs, pork pie, and other traditional treats on a river trip one evening. A friend of mine from another school looked up thoughtfully from his plate while we were happily munching away and remarked, “You know, if they had cholesterol in this country I’d be very worried…” Stay healthy. - mike

I'm just impressed that for the last ingredient of your full english, you went and made a whole nother recipe so the baked beans could be to scale

Back when I owned quails I bought a quail egg cutter(very similar to a cigar cutter) You just slice off the top and dump the egg out of the shell.

i occasionally do a small hash brown quiche for one in mine, ill use a frozen hash brown patty, allow it to thaw, and ill press it into the hot pan, and blind bake it to get it brown and crispy, and then season up 2 eggs, or just one if im padding it with milk/fillings like meat/cheese, pour it in and bake till its done, instead of it taking like an hour to bake, this only takes a few minutes.

Aldi occaisionally sell even tinier non stick frying pans for frying a single egg...Maybe the skillet would do for that if you just wanted one fried egg in a sandwich or similar...that's the only use I can think off. My daughter bought herself the Aldi pan to take to uni so she can have a fried egg " buttie " as we say up north - for her breakfast.

I think the video was more "fun" than the breakfast. Thank you for indulging a little silliness and making me hungry on a Sunday morning!

i got unreasonably excited about the return of the tiny cast iron pan

That full English breakfast was very funny to watch! I also appreciate the bean recipe as I don't have the family recipe and I wanted to find something really simple, can't get much simpler than yours.

I still reckon my mini cornbread idea would be cracking addition to any homemade soup or stew. Thank you for another really entertaining and fun video.

I think this would work wonderfully as a little mini two egg ham and cheese omelette pan. You could even use the other pan upside down on top of it to help cook it through.

This is one of my favorite videos you have ever done. Simply fascinating and enjoyable :).

in the US we have always had a No 3 Cast Iron pan which is 6.5" across and 1.25" deep. it is much nicer than those wee things

The eggy in a basket looks amazing, whole thing is smol and nice but a full size breakfast is the way to go, can't beat it.

I guess it'd be perfect for making a single hamburger patty. I also have a tiny skillet that I use to fry garlic and red pepper flakes in, and I then I transfer the contents into a pot of pasta just shy of al dente with cheap kraft parmesan from the plastic shaker can (the real stuff doesn't emulsify) and reserved pasta water. I stir it over a medium heat until it's emulsified and top with whatever I have in the kitchen.