I have never tried microwaving bacon. Any meat that I have tried microwaving came out sort of grayish looking instead of brown. Actually, I don't cook anything in it. I use it once in a while to warm something but not often. My sister cooks bacon in the oven at their place down at the river. To me, it stinks up the whole house. Bacon frying smells good. I don't know why it stinks while it's baking.
YES!! I really like the big box, so all you have to do is put the whole plastic thing in the micro. I think it tastes great! I have a black stove (arrgg). Like you, I avoid getting grease on it because it feels smudgy even after cleaning.
I usually use a cover when I fry something. It doesn't fully prevent splatter but it helps, and things cook faster that way.
I normally fry bacon....and yes rinsing it off first helps a lot. But bacon baked in the oven helps retain the size and you can cook crispy it need be.... just takes to long for me.
@Beth Gallagher Many meat products have recently been introduced and touted as containing no preservatives. "Lunch meats", bacon, various sausage products are now seen containing no nitrites, the traditional standby ingredient preserving meats. Most, but not all, are refrigerated; bacon already cooked is often offered at room temperature. I wonder how that can be? I suspect quick vacuum sealing followed by irradiation to kill any organisms contained. I further suspect, but am not sure, that irradiating food products is not required by nutritional labeling law. I have no problem with such practice so long as it is done using only ionizing radiation (X-rays) rather than neutron irradiation, which produces (often) isotopes which are radioactive themselves. Hit with X-rays, no lasting "secondary" radiation. Frank
But the lower temperature produces fewer nitrosamines, the bad by-products of frying preserved meats.
I almost always cook bacon in the microwave. It's can be as crisp as you want it. You do have to know how much time for the amount and thickness of the bacon.
Like all things we have eaten for over 70 years.. bacon will kill you- no matter how you cook it- at least according to Medical America.. I say aside from eating it raw, cook however it appeases you ..enjoy our lives are short
@Gloria Mitchell Yeah, but troubles me that they keep getting shorter and shorter as time goes by..... Frank