re: Cooking bacon in the oven is faster, easier, cleaner, and better tasting.

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Only down side is it’s more difficult to save the grease

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I cook mine in the oven in a foil lined pan. Let the grease cool, take what you want to save, throw the foil away

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I cook bacon 5 times a week. Thiccc bacon (ie Boar's Head Butcher Cut 20oz packs).

Bacon in the oven at 400-425° takes 20-25 min to cook.
Bacon in a skillet takes 10 - 15 min to cook (w/ a bacon press to evenly cook).

Oven might seem like less of a mess, but at least in the skillet you can use a splatter screen to keep oil from getting everywhere.

And all the bacon remnants make your eggs taste great.

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Skillet is technically faster, but only if you arent making it in bulk.

If you have two people then a skillet is fine, but the moment you need to go to a second batch the oven is superior.

Now you know what is even faster, and keeps it crispier with almost no chance of burning? skillet + cooking in water

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Bacon in the air fryer works great as some have already mentioned. Bacon grease collects in the basket and is easy to collect and save.

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If I can I’ll go the rest of my life without frying bacon in a pan again.

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Have you ever tried cooking it in a pan with water? That will change your life. I still do bacon in the oven when I am cooking for a group of people otherwise the pan water method is king for consistency and quality of cook.

The America's Test kitchen 1 minute video where I found the techniques years ago:

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Ethan Chlebowski video that explores the science of cooking bacon and comes to the same conclusion

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To make oven bacon even crisper. Get a spray bottle with water and wet the bacon when it's getting close to finished, and pull it out once that water evaporates. Helps the bacon continue to render without drying out.

If you need a lot of bacon the oven is great. If you just need some pieces to go with some eggs a press is quick and easy PLUS you have a nice grease to cook your eggs with already ready to go.

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Only down side is it’s more difficult to save the grease

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put it on a wire rack, the best way to get bacon grease.

I like it in the oven also unless I'm cooking bacon in my cast iron pot before browning onions.

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Between two paper towels in the microwave is the easiest way.

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I eat 3 pieces every morning using this method. takes 3 minutes to cook it, let it cool for 3 minutes to harden, tastes fine to me

Wife does this. Not as easy as a skillet but damn it is good. Straight, flat, nice soft crunch.. not a hard skillet crunch. Fat cooks perfectly in the oven.

I'm not as patient. Skillet for me.