Realized after burning three pans of bacon that oven baking beats stovetop every time

Tbh I spent 10 years fighting with grease splatter and uneven crisping on the burner, then tried 400 degrees on a sheet pan last week and it came out perfect with zero cleanup. Has anyone else switched methods for a basic breakfast item and felt dumb for not doing it sooner?

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hayes.jake19d ago

Saw a chef on youtube say oven bacon changed his life and wrote it off as clickbait. Tried it myself last week and yeah, it's a total game changer for anyone who hates scrubbing a greasy pan at 7am. Never going back to stovetop, it's just not worth the hassle.

the_henry19d ago

My roommate in college used to make stovetop bacon at 2am after parties and the whole dorm floor would smell like a diner for two days. He'd leave the pan soaking in the sink until the grease solidified into this gross white layer that nobody wanted to touch. One time I tried oven bacon at a Holiday Inn breakfast buffet and it was so perfectly flat and crispy I almost asked the cook for his recipe. But I never actually made it myself until last month when I ran out of paper towels to drain the stovetop grease on. Now I'm wondering what else I've been doing wrong my whole adult life, like maybe I don't need to flip my pancakes every 15 seconds either.