I don't feel the way about making breakfast that I feel about mowing the lawn, at least, once I've started mowing the lawn. Starting mowing the lawn is all about getting motivated to commit a couple hours to getting it done. Making breakfast has a built in motivator....hunger of course. Once these activities are underway though, they're a lot a bit alike as far as mental effort required, though I would argue that making breakfast has many more steps and a vital temporal component.
Timing is everything when making breakfast. The sausage or bacon has to come first, always, because they take the longest and you don't to eat or feed undercooked pork products to anyone. Always second I do the eggs, or maybe pancakes. This can turn out to be quite an undertaking if the people I am cooking for all want their eggs different styles. Of course scrambled and fried eggs go quickest and omelets take a bit longer. For the past few years I have been making the omelets in a serial fashion, one after the next, in the same little 7 inch no stick pan. It's important to use the same pans every day because you know how hot they are going to get and what impact slight changes in heat settings on the stove will have on them.
But it's the mental place I go to while cooking that I like. It's about being “in the zone” In psychology I think it's called “flow”. It's about this fun place I go inside my mind and everything is timed right and the food is making happy eaters out of people. I'm able to get this all done quickly now after 5 or so years of practicing and it feels like no effort at all.
Maybe you know what I am talking about?