Easiest (Best?) Way to Cook Bacon

[SBC]

I personally prefer cooking bacon on a 1930s Griswold cast iron pan on a gas stove.

I inherited my great-grandmother's Griswold (probably same era) a couple years ago. It's incomparable.

Susan wants to switch to induction for health reasons

Funny, we had an opposite dynamic: Our house had a gas line but nevertheless an electric stove. Elisabeth pestered me for years to get her a gas stove/oven. I didn't want to spend the money and didn't think I had a preference. I finally came across a deal I couldn't refuse a couple months ago and installed a gas stove for her. Wow! From the first time she made bacon on it using the cast iron, I was hooked. I definitely have a preference now.

 

[sardonicus87]

You're an abomination

So I've heard many times due to various other things, like my hatred of fish/seafood, hatred of cheese, hatred of chocolate, hatred of hokey bs, hatred of VA/pers...

 

[Sigmund]

I gotta have the crunches on bacon. I can eat raw beef but crunchy bacon…that’s candy

That said bacon in France is trash. The French dont eat real breakfast so those sorts of foods are hard to source.

 

[karam]

That said bacon in France is trash. The French dont eat real breakfast so those sorts of foods are hard to source.

Oh ho ho ho!

Look, as a Greek my breakfast is coffee (black) and cigarettes so I don't crave any food in the morning but when in France I'll enjoy the local patisseries. There's something in the taste, something about the butter which is plentiful but not greasy or heavy that I haven't tasted in another country.

That said, the French are notoriously bad at doing any food that's not French so I'm not surprised they don't do bacon. Lardons are nice but no substitute!

 

[Sig]

Are you trolling us?
Why does it matter?
Bacon is well known to be the finest food one can ingest.
Pan fried, oven baked, blow torched, open fire, charcoal grill, gas grill, microwave, hood of a hot car....
Again, does it matter?

 

[brian64]

hood of a hot car....

I don't know about on the hood, but apparently this is how they do it in the hood:

 

[DesertDan]

In cast iron over a campfire.

 

[telescopes]

Cast iron with a bacon press.

 

[RL Bucktails]

Probably my favorite way to eat bacon. The steakhouse slab.

 

[carp rides again]

Oven with aluminum foil. I make a box out of the foil to keep the pan relatively clean and leave one corner like a drain. Pour the grease in a Jar bout half way through, flip the bacon and finish cooking it till it's done

 

[leonardbill1]

Electric skillet, precursor to the microwave. Just set the dial to the recommended temperature for bacon (written on the handle) and it's perfect every time. Pretty quick too. Once it's done, eggs fried in the bacon grease are great. The lid keeps the grease contained and the nonstick surface makes cleanup easy.

 

[Lumbridge]

You bacon lovers ever tried pork belly?

Char-siu. My mouth is watering just typing it.

 

[Sig]

In cast iron over a campfire.

Mixed with eggs and potato's in the morning while on your third day camping and after many miles hiking the day before. There may be no better meal on earth.

 

[JOHN72]

My mother has an air fryer, and I was impressed with the way the meat stays, besides less oily, and you also save on oil, I mean meats without fat. But I prefer the oven or frying pan.

 

[SBC]

I don't know about on the hood, but apparently this is how they do it in the hood:

Once upon a time I lived outside Philly and knew some people, and I can say with a high degree of confidence that this is block food.

They use turkey bacon for Islamic reasons (or at least turkey bacon was normalized in the subculture initially for that reason). I was told by black Muslims who'd spent a lot of time in jails (and whom I got along with quite well, BTW), that for years now jails have served only turkey bacon because their demographic was so significant (at least in that part of the country - not sure about elsewhere) that providing alternate diets didn't make sense anymore -- it was the majority diet in that context.

They have microwaves "on the block" and get quite proficient at using them to make "chi chi"s and such.

Most cuisines anywhere were initially born of availability, necessity, and other situational factors, and the same is true here -- some communities celebrate foods and methods that were initially born of the realities of jail.

 

[Briarcutter]

Probably my favorite way to eat bacon. The steakhouse slab.View attachment 391118

That looks awesome! Did you prepare that or it is from a restaurant?

 

[Sig]

My mother has an air fryer, and I was impressed with the way the meat stays, besides less oily, and you also save on oil, I mean meats without fat. But I prefer the oven or frying pan.

I hated the idea of the air fryer. I thought it was too small and would be a fad.
So of course, my wife bought one.
With only the 2 of us, it's a game changer. We eat a lot of fish and chicken. The air fryer cooks it quick and BETTER than an oven. Reheating stuff is great. Any frozen food heated perfectly within minutes.
There are still things that don't work in it. Like fish & chips.

 

[RL Bucktails]

Tha

That looks awesome! Did you prepare that or it is from a restaurant?

That’s a stock photo but the restaurant is Keens in NYC which I have been to many times. The cool thing about Keens is the history and the clay pipe collection. I wish you could still smoke there.

 

[Briarcutter]

Tha

That’s a stock photo but the restaurant is Keens in NYC which I have been to many times. The cool thing about Keens is the history and the clay pipe collection.View attachment 391166View attachment 391167View attachment 391168View attachment 391169View attachment 391170 I wish you could still smoke there.

That's a very interesting piece of history. I'll bet its a great restaurant to visit. Thank you for sharing.

 

[brian64]

I hated the idea of the air fryer. I thought it was too small and would be a fad.
So of course, my wife bought one.
With only the 2 of us, it's a game changer. We eat a lot of fish and chicken. The air fryer cooks it quick and BETTER than an oven. Reheating stuff is great. Any frozen food heated perfectly within minutes.
There are still things that don't work in it. Like fish & chips.

I recently had to replace my microwave, and the new one is a 3 in 1 unit with microwave, air fryer and convection oven. But I haven't gotten around to experimenting with the latter two functions yet.