Bacon? Your preferred way to prepare?

cookie sheet in the oven


easier to clean up too

I could only make it with an oven probably. If i grill it it won't turn out.
I just cook it in the oven, and then i usually eat it right away.

I've heard of using the oven, but I've not tried it. I use the stove top, in a cast iron skillet. It doesn't take long, and I feel that I can have immediate control over whether it's cooked to be reasonably pliable, like for a BLT ... or, "to a crisp," that I might want to crumble.

Bacon is glorious. And, an extra wonderful by-product is the grease that I collect, to use as the initial browning fat for some other dishes.

I don't understand how the clean up would be easier. On the stove top, I use a splatter guard that keeps (most of) the grease from jumping all over. How do you keep it from splattering all over the inside of the oven?

I buy the pre-cooked type and nuke it for 50 seconds. It comes out extra crisp.

Given how rarely I eat bacon, it's perfect.

Yes.  I don't eat much bacon for health reasons too.  When I buy it, I buy a package of bacon that has already been pre-cooked.  It can even be stored at room temperature (until you unseal it).  Once you unseal the package, you take out however many slices you want (you can actually eat it as-is and make a sandwich since it's cooked) or the directions will tell you how long to heat it in the microwave:  example for 4 slices it's 40 seconds, but I do 50 seconds because I like it super crispy.

That way I don't have raw bacon frying in the pan and splattering in the pan, and burning my arms or face.  There's no clean-up other than paper towel.  No pre-heating the oven or baking sheet pans to clean off.

Now I want some bacon. Funny what these food topics do to you, lol.