Is there a difference between fried bacon and baked bacon

I've tried it baked, it comes out fine, but I use a rack to suspend the bacon over a foil lined pan. It cuts down on some of the cleanup and almost all of the smoke. It takes a good while IMO to crisp up enough so the only way you save time is if you can fit more bacon than in your pan/griddle.

I only do it for like bacon sandwiches or BLTs. I'd rather have the grease in the pan for scrambling eggs.

I've never noticed a difference. I think what people mean to say is that they prefer cooking bacon in the oven...you can cook a lot more than you can in a skillet, just as fast and with less clean up.

I've recently been converted to oven cooking bacon... just lay down foil in a baking pan and lay the bacon out flat... pop it in for 15 minutes or so at 400 and the bacon is perfectly crispy all over and doesn't curl up or have uneven cooking.

As for the grease, I always lay the strips out on some paper towels before eating... and clean up is easy as long as the foil doesn't tear.

I use the rack too because then you can save the bacon grease and it doesn't have pieces of bacon in it. Pour in a jar and it will be creamy white.

Then you use it to make those biscuits that you need to put that bacon on.

Racks for half sheet pan will hold a dozen strips of bacon. You can get a package of two racks this size at Wal Mart for about ten bucks. Spray it with Pam and it is easy to clean. I just toss in dishwasher.

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I use the rack too because then you can save the bacon grease and it doesn't have pieces of bacon in it. Pour in a jar and it will be creamy white.

Then you use it to make those biscuits that you need to put that bacon on.

Racks for half sheet pan will hold a dozen strips of bacon. You can get a package of two racks this size at Wal Mart for about ten bucks. Spray it with Pam and it is easy to clean. I just toss in dishwasher.

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This guy gets it.

And then there is 'deep fried' bacon. When my wife was single between marriages she decided to try cooking something. She was 30 and had never actually cooked anything. She wanted fried bacon.

She thought: "Frying is putting a bunch of oil in a pot and heating it up real high."

She did that. Then she threw a package of bacon in the deep hot oil. There was an explosion.

I have a microwave bacon tray that is quick and easy but it doesn't hold much at all.

I bake my bacon a pack at a time in a foil lined baking pan. I just lay it flat and cook at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. After it cooks, I take the bacon out of the pan and sop up the bacon grease with a loaf of french bread, halved, then throw it back in the oven open faced for about 6-7 minutes or until crisp. You have never had a finer toast to go along side your meal.