Reviewing hundreds of varieties of bacon has given me a chance to perfect the best way to cook bacon. After spending countless hours cooking bacon, I’ve developed a foolproof method to cook bacon to perfection each and every time.

First experiment: the traditional frying on the stovetop method.

There are several ways to cook bacon. When I started reviewing bacon for a living I used the time-tested method of frying my bacon slowly in a skillet on the stove top. Frying the bacon at a medium-low heat and turning the bacon often for 45 minutes was what I knew how to do best.

However, there are 3 problems with frying bacon.

It takes a long time. It requires constant attention to prevent burning the bacon. Bacon grease spits up randomly and really hurts (and make a mess all over the stovetop).

Unhappy with these results I began to experiment to alter these three factors to come up with a better way to cook bacon. Cooking bacon all the time meant that I needed to find a way to speed up the process.

My first thought was to increase the heat to save time. This led to burnt bacon and even more grease spatter. I also tried lowering the heat, but that just meant I had to tend to this bacon for a lot longer and that I had to wait more than an hour to eat some delicious meat candy.

After much experimentation, I can not recommend frying bacon (unless you really like ultra-crispy bacon which typically diminishes some of the more enjoyable aspects of the flavor of the bacon).