I Found the Fastest, Cleanest Way to Make Bacon (It's Not the Stove, Oven or Microwave)

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My bacon routine got a serious upgrade when I started making it in this versatile kitchen appliance.

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For easy, crispy bacon, it's time to ditch the grease-splattered stovetop struggle. While making pork strips in a frying pan works well, the relentless popping and rogue grease droplets leave their mark on your skin, stove and kitchen walls.

I was ready for a better way.

In search of the best, cleanest method for Sunday brunch bacon or a BLT, I tested several approaches -- stovetop, oven and air fryer. Turns out I'd been doing it wrong all along.

Here's how my three bacon-making tests went and how I'm making it from now on.

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