What is the best way to cook bacon?

[LoveMyPeppermill]

On a griddle?

In a microwave?

Baked in an oven?

Some other way?

 

[unloadonme]

I used to mostly grill and occasionally fry bacon. These days I mostly microwave it.

 

[Thad1527]

I do the microwave thing. But not everyone likes it. Someone gave Pamela's Diner in Pittsburgh (which I love) a negative review, saying the place had gone down since they started microwaving their bacon. Pish.

I do believe bacon makes everything better.

 

[rareboy]

Ours is usually in the oven.

 

[Alistair]

If it’s just for me it’s in the fry pan started out with a little water. If there’s anything else here I bake it in the oven.

 

[cabinfever]

Microwave for me. It s fast and easy with the least amount of effort.

 

[Vannie]

Ours is usually in the oven.

Yes this. Keeps bacon flat without fussing with it.

And if you want real crisp bacon you can lay it on a stainless steel cooling rack with an oven pan underneath. Drains away the fat nicely.

Most large eateries serving at least several hundred per day will use the oven method for consistency and uniform strips as well as convenience.

Food service bacon will come in 10 or more pound boxes where the bacon is on parchment oven proof paper and you transfer it to your full sheet pans and in the oven it goes. Makes it easy to cook bacon for 500.

 

[pigface]

Always best under the griller (I believe "broil" is an American word for it), or fried in a heavy pan.

Microwave oven? What a bizarre and horrible method. Might as well boil it.

 

[Kahaih]

It makes a miserable mess no matter what.

I only ever buy it already cooked. But I don't use it much, and I'm not real fussy about food, anyway. Stopping to eat is a nuisance.

 

[Vannie]

Microwave for me. It s fast and easy with the least amount of effort.

Never tried bacon in the micro. I need to experiment with that.

When I do it at home for just me and my Honey it's just in the skillet. But if people are over doing it in the oven allows me to set a timer and go about other things.

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[cityboy-stl]

Frying Pan for sure. Microwaved bacon comes out weird.

 

[cabinfever]

Never tried bacon in the micro. I need to experiment with that.

When I do it at home for just me and my Honey it's just in the skillet. But if people are over doing it in the oven allows me to set a timer and go about other things.

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Your method sounds alot better and probably tastes alot better.

The reason I use the microwave is just that is quick and easy with less mess and clean up. I usually don't have enough time as I have to run my business so I cut corners to save time whenever I can.

 

[pigface]

There was a time you could buy special foil to cook bacon in a microwave oven, but it was costly and very messy.

 

[Charon]

Grill

 

[TickTockMan]

In my egg pan, then I cook my eggs using the grease.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I'm actually a fan of all three methods. For the longest time, it was in a skillet, and only recently starting it in water, which is indeed a very effective control, for thick bacon. Also, I use a weight to flatten it and control the spatter. It's glass.

But, any time I'm cooking a large amount, it's definitely on a full baking sheet in the oven. Nothing is as easy or reliable.

A couple of years ago, I started using the par-baked bacon from Costco. It only took about 60 seconds to finish, and was perfectly crisp.

But, I've gone back to skillet and oven now, as I discovered one of my favorite things about bacon was the variability. I like a few pieces to be chewy, and some to be crisp.

And for the record, I cooked in my huge cast iron skillet this morning and did not get grease anywhere on the cooktop. So there.

 

[Vannie]

grease.

Is the word.

 

[Vannie]

I'm actually a fan of all three methods. For the longest time, it was in a skillet, and only recently starting it in water, which is indeed a very effective control, for thick bacon. Also, I use a weight to flatten it and control the spatter. It's glass.

But, any time I'm cooking a large amount, it's definitely on a full baking sheet in the oven. Nothing is as easy or reliable.

A couple of years ago, I started using the par-baked bacon from Costco. It only took about 60 seconds to finish, and was perfectly crisp.

But, I've gone back to skillet and oven now, as I discovered one of my favorite things about bacon was the variability. I like a few pieces to be chewy, and some to be crisp.

And for the record, I cooked in my huge cast iron skillet this morning and did not get grease anywhere on the cooktop. So there.

Have you posted in the Last word thread yet?

 

[Vannie]

In my egg pan, then I cook my eggs using the grease.

We have a few of those small one egg wonder non stick pans that we discovered fit two eggs perfectly. And the size fits exactly on a Thomas Sandwich size english muffin.

A little cheese a little bacon and ,

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

It makes a miserable mess no matter what.

I only ever buy it already cooked. But I don't use it much, and I'm not real fussy about food, anyway. Stopping to eat is a nuisance.

Put a sheet of baking parchment over the pan you bake the bacon in before you bake it.
When it's done, take the bacon off and let the pan with the parchment cool until the fat solidifies.
Then take the parchment with the solidified fat on it and throw it in the garbage.
Your baking pan should remain clean.