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Understanding the Context

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Key Insights

It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central ingredient (e.g., the BLT sandwich), or as a flavouring or accent. Our Test Kitchen tells how to cook bacon in a pan, in the microwave, in the oven, and on the grill. Plus, the cooking method to avoid. How to Cook Bacon Perfectly 4 Ways and What Method Never to Use For our in-depth bacon taste test, we sizzled up best-selling bacon offerings from Oscar Mayer, Aldi, Trader Joe's and more, then ranked them worst to best. Read this guide to different types of bacon including streaky bacon, Canadian bacon, Cantonese lap yuk, Irish bacon, and more.

Final Thoughts

Instead of wrangling a grease-spitting skillet, there's a cleaner, easier way to cook bacon — and it's so simple you'll wonder if it really works. (Spoiler alert: It does.)