Bacon: Microwave or Frying Pan?

[ChrisFL]

How do you prefer to cook bacon?

I can see advantages in both depending on your goal. Microwave less greasy and more crispy, frying pan more chewy and "traditional" tasting.

EDIT: Or Oven!

 

[RangerPooh]

Neither, I cook it in the oven.

 

[J'aime Paris]

I cook my bacon in the oven.

 

[Allison]

Oven-perfect every time.

 

[Micca]

Yep, in the oven at 400, takes about a half hour, maybe a little less. Microwave only if time is a factor, haven't fried bacon in a skillet in 30 years?

 

[porschegrl]

One more for the oven!

 

[Micca]

Bonus: Cooking it in the oven will make the whole house smell like bacon.

 

[kimblebee]

I’m one that still uses a frying pan.

 

[EscalatorKid]

Frying pan.

It isn't that hard and I can use the pan after I drain the grease to cook eggs or burgers or onions or whatever in some of the grease.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Oven gets another vote from me. I can't remember the last time I cooked bacon in a frying pan or microwave.

ETA: I line my baking sheet with foil first. That makes clean-up super easy.

 

[Floridaman999]

I cook it in the oven.

 

[Meriweather]

Yep oven.
Baking pan lined with foil.....so much easier and not as messy

 

[momto2girls]

Oven

 

[JaxDad]

Microwave during the week, and frying pan Saturday and Sunday.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Iron skillet until it is nice and crispy.

 

[BrianL]

In the rare circumstance that I cook bacon, it's the oven. I have this slatted tray thing with a drip pan. Anyway it cooks up nicely and the smell does linger for a while.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Microwave.
As you put it less greasy and more crispy. lThe ends melt in your mouth.
I have floppy/chewy bacon. I'll never order bacon from a restaurant anymore.
Plus much less of a mess in the microwave.
Just toss out the paper towels and wash the plate vs potential grease all over the place.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

I use our George Foreman grill! I pulled out the tiny grease trap and put a baking sheet under the lip of the machine to catch the drippings.

 

[Turn the Page]

I have issues cooking bacon. I cook it in the oven. DH sometimes cooks it in a frying pan but I tend to screw that up.

 

[NAB]

I tried so many times in the oven and can’t it it right and takes forever...frying pan for me