The Cook’s Kitchen

I’ve mentioned before how much I love kitchen gadgets, so a gadget that cooks bacon was right up my alley.

Skeptical only mildly describes my thoughts when I first unwrapped the WowBacon Cooker. It looked like a plastic drink pitcher with snap-on lid. There was just no way this thing was going to produce edible cooked bacon.

The directions were not as clear and concise as I would have liked, but after finally getting the bacon into the cooker in the proper way, I popped them into my brand new GE microwave.

I will admit the first attempt didn’t come out very well. I overcooked the bacon, but this was more my fault than the cooker’s. I just set the timer for longer than the instructions suggested.

A couple of bacon batches later I had it down pretty good and was cooking bacon in a couple of minutes with no splatter and clean up consisted of just draining the liquid and tossing the cooker into the dishwasher.

Is it perfect, crisp bacon?

No, it’s not. If you like your bacon with the freshly fried crisp texture, you won’t get it here. You will, however, get well cooked bacon that can be eaten in your favorite recipe.

If you’re making the American classic Bacon and Egg breakfast, you’ll probably still want to fry the bacon in the traditional way, but if you have a recipe that calls for cooked bacon to be added, this is a great gadget to have around the house.

You can purchase the Wowbacon Cooker directly from their website.