Do you cook Bacon in a skillet or in the Microwave?

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1. I don’t usually cook bacon, but when I have to cook [pancetta](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancetta) (not too different from bacon) I always use the pan.

2. Trying to be curious, not judgemental here, so I’ll admit that I’ve never tried it…
   but wouldn’t bacon get incredibly soggy and flabby in a microwave?

3. I don’t think I ever “cook” anything in the microwave (I heard that this was a big thing in the 80s when microwaves were first introduced to the market), I only heat things up or thaw stuff from the freezer. I have no idea how it is possible to evenly cook stuff in the microwave, to be honest.

4. I never bothered to get a new microwave after the last one broke, since we never really used it for anything. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to put bacon in there to begin with, though.

5. Either in a frying pan or under the grill (that’s ‘broiling’ if you’re speaking American English)

6. In a pan or under the grill. Just because you can make something not-raw in the microwave, doesn’t mean you’ve properly cooked it.

7. I’ve an air fryer so cook in there. I don’t eat much bacon though.

8. Neither – I grill it haha. But my mum does have this device that can cook bacon in the microwave and it’s actually pretty good and saves the mess of cleaning up a grill!

9. We don’t have a microwave and I don’t eat meat 🤷‍♀️ but back when I did i always fried it in a pan.

10. Bacon is not really a staple in Finland, we eat more porridge and yogurt or sandwich with cold fillings for breakfast. Of course some people do, and most eat it sometimes. I’ve heard that some people cook it in oven too.

11. Microwave sounds like it would just go nasty. Either the bacon, the microwave or both. I tend to do bacon under the grill as you get that perfectly crispy fat then, I can see it bubbling away and take it out on the cusp of being burned. Frying leaves it a bit too greasy and I end up fumigating the kitchen.

12. Microwave ? What kind of monster cook bacon in the microwave ?

13. Not a lot of bacon here,but we have the equivalent Italian version! (and sometimes I buy bacon from Lidl,when they are selling it,American week 😉

    Personally,always fried in a pan.Never microwaved.

14. If I cook it, I’ll use a skillet or a non-stick frying pan. And I say “if” because our bacon is cured and can be eaten as it’s bought.

    That said, cooking in the microwave is not really a thing here. People use microwaves to heat previously cooked dishes (stuff they’ve cooked earlier or supermarket premade meals), milk, etc. Nowadays there’s microwavable vegetables, but that’s as far as microwave cooking goes here.

15. I don’t eat bacon but as far as I am concerned microwaves are for heating up cold food, not for cooking.

16. If I want to fry stuff I do it in a pan, never in the microwave. If I want to heat bacon it’s normally via frying, so…

17. Wells, i prefer Bacon uncooked, to each its own… https://youtu.be/4BnZcDwxBdM

18. A skillet’s a frying pan, right? I usually fry it but some people grill it instead (not grilling in the American sense of the word though).

19. I used to fry on pan, but then tried once in an oven and found it better. Bacon stays little juicier and overall less work.

20. I can’t recall using my microwave for at least a year.

21. We never cook bacon, we fry it. Also, it’s usually an ingredient for some dish, it doesn’t come by itself.

22. Skillet we don’t even own a Microwave because it apparently causes cancer. I wouldn’t cook bacon there either way. Don’t remember the last time I saw a Microwave.