This post was last updated on March 12, 2026
…does it take to cook bacon? I’m not talking about temperature, I mean college degrees. In my case, the answer is two/working on three. :-) I cooked bacon a few months ago with just a plate and lots of paper towels. It was very messy and the bacon was hard to cook consistently. Today I used a microwave bacon tray. It was much cleaner than using a normal plate, but the quality was still hit or miss.
My next bacon cooking attempt will probably be using a George Foreman grill. Instructions I’ve found say that you don’t have to separate that bacon into strips, but I probably will anyway.