Here's How We Cook Bacon Now

This past June I visited one of my sister-in-laws/brother-in-law in Highlands/Cashiers, NC for a weekend.  They had rented a house for a week and so I took Youngest with me and after we went horseback riding through a river (photos of that soon) we stopped by a couple of shops.

There is a potter in NC (Greenhill Pottery but I can't find a website) who makes pottery I had never seen before.  My SIL purchased a dish used for rinsing and keeping berries and another on which you place a chicken, neck side up, on top of a small, built-in well area in center of the "pie plate" -- same idea as the "beer butt chicken" where you place a chicken on top of an opened can of beer on the grill.

Anyway, I picked out a bacon-cooker pottery piece since I make bacon almost every Sunday -- by placing the strips on paper towels, on top of folded newspaper, on a plate in the microwave.

Here is my pretty pottery with a package of bacon placed lovingly all around it:

I chose this piece of pottery out of about 8--had to choose the prettiest one.

Here is another view:

You then place it in the microwave for about 8 - 10 minutes.  By the way, our microwave died after I used this a few times and when we shopped for a new one we had to make sure it was roomy enough inside to accommodate the new bacon cooker.

When the bacon is cooked I just pour the grease out into the trash and keep the bacon on the table and it stays warm for a little bit.  I am convinced that with a tall bowl set into a pie plate, would work as well.

(Here it is cooked and ready for breakfast or BLT's)

We tried it out right away in North Carolina and my SIL doesn't often buy bacon so at the grocery store I showed her how to look at a bunch of packages, opening the "windows" to find the meatiest bacon of all--everyone does this, right?  I can't be the only one to leave the bacon aisle with about 10 packages of bacon with their windows flapped open.