american bacon is dry cured, uk bacon is danish, its injected with salty water, you cant microwave it, its a pain really, its to inflate the amount of bacon, so its best to cook in the oven and get the water out of it
Jusb1066 you can always buy the premium dry cure stuff over here. Well worth it unless you want to boil your bacon in yucky bacon water. Sticking danish bacon under the grill works quite well though as the water can escape.
Who are these people buying precooked bacon? I'm American and have never really seen people buy such a thing. Bacon is already extremely easy to make and practically cooks itself, so I don't think anyone would buy a premade product anyways.
I think it was Alton Brown who railed against these specialist devices saying that dozens of these appliances could just be replaced with a panini press. Pretty sure this is another one. Edit: lol I commented before you mentioned the George Foreman grill, which essentially is the same as a panini press. Well played sir.
Set oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Place bacon of the kind of thickness TM described as "streaky bacon" (in America this is somewhere between thin and thick aka medium thickness) on the parchment. Cook 12-15 minutes depending on how you like your bacon. 12 minutes is cooked but not crisp. 15 minutes is crispy not burnt. Set on paper towels to absorb excess grease. Blot the top of the bacon with the paper towel of you want to pretend to be health conscious but still want to enjoy bacon. Thin bacon is 9 minutes to done 11-12 for crispy. Thick cut is 16-17 minutes to done to 18-19 minutes for crispy.
Good guess, but I am in fact a time traveller. Need proof? Two days from now, Trump will publicly embarrass himself. I dare not say more as it could risk another temporal collapse, and we don't want that again, do we?
@@Voltaic_Fire i live in the uk where bacon (1.25£)leaves a puddle of water untill 20mins fried in a pan, went to new zealand couldnt find bacon that wasnt streaky and nice and the only pack for sale cost a fuckton like over 7£ and was a kilo
This is pretty much every gadget in Kickstarter: they promise to fix some minor inconvenience, which they try to sell as overpowering chore and then end up doing it slower while requiring to purchase some single purpose device to take space.
There's giant versions of these in most hotel rooms, and you can cook really huge rashers of bacon; they only cook very slowly though. They're labelled "Corby Trouser Press".
Got a smile from me, it's been years since I stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press. The downside of the slow cooking time is offset by the fact that your bacon comes out super straight and flat, no creases. :)
Well, that device looks like a total waste of space, time and money! Fifty quid to get partly cooked bacon in under 13 minutes... I'd have expected to have my bacon butty made, eaten and cleaned up in that time. Oh, and your streaky bacon "slice" is actually two, they come as a pair and you're supposed to pull them apart to get the actual slices.
You have mentioned many times how short the cord/lead is. I think it is because of the safety regulations. At least here in Finland, an electricity socket have to be at least 80 cm or so from a water source and the leads of appliances have to be shorter than that so it is impossible to get it in the water while plugged in the wall.
I stack a single layer of slices/rashers on a couple of crinkled paper towels and then top the stack with a couple more paper towels. Into the microwave and bacon in minutes. Throw out the paper and wash a plate. Just that easy.
Congrats. I did since you ordered it. Not really, it is a religious debate. Besides, eating copious amounts of bacon will likely kill you faster. I prefer the cleaner cooking method and having a single multi-purpose appliance to several niche devices in the kitchen.
Elite Dangerous Club - Science does not support your microwave anxiety. Do you also believe in homeopathy and other 'woo' by any chance? Do you believe there are benefits to eating 'organic' vegetables for example?
We cook bacon regularly in the microwave as described and it works just fine. RF (Radio Frequency) waves are harmful to living things, including people but in a proper enclosure they can be made to work for you without harm. There is no residual energy left in the food or other weirdness like that. It cooks by exciting the water molecules in the food so it is a very specific kind of heat that ruins the texture of most meat and can make bread too hard to eat. In the case of bacon, it actually fries it just as would happen in the oven because the paper towels keep the meat in contact with the boiling water/fat that come out of the bacon as the temp rises. The only way to tell bacon cooked in a microwave for that cooked in a skillet would be the microwave bacon will be flat and not have the black flecks of scorched fat stuck on it that can easily happen in the skillet.
AngryRed Banjo Radio waves are actually not harmful unless you are too close to the transmitter (which you are not most of the time, and this also depends on wattage among other things). Radio waves (and microwaves, infrared, and visible light) are not ionizing radiation like ultraviolet light, x-rays, or gamma rays are.
Old idea. My mom received an almost identical item for Christmas in the early 70s - in popular 'harvest gold' color. Horrible to clean. A good frying pan is still best for bacon.
more stuff to clean.. doesn't really cook the bacon properly... and takes up more space in your kitchen What you call crispy bacon, is what i call half finished bacon. it all needs to be cooked. white fat should be gone, and it should be all red/brown like the crispy parts of the bacon you had. The best way to achieve this, without burning some parts of the bacon, is to cook it in a normal pan on the stove, so it'll flop around in its own fat. Flip it every now and again, and use low heat. High heat just results in partially burned bacon You can also keep the fat from the bacon, in a tupperware thing in your fridge. it's excellent for cooking various things (I love cooking chicken with it)
As Alton Brown from Good Eats says, there should be no place in your kitchen for a unitasker. Yes the George Foreman is much more useful then this device.
M3ta7h3ad I live in the states and while I was in England I had some black pudding. Didn't care for it, not because of taste but because of texture. But perhaps it was just that one that I had and maybe others are good.
@@1234q-q8x Theres different kinds, you were likely unlucky enough to get fine ground one, which is really just some sort of terrible paste, next time you go there get some 'rough'/'countryside' one, its much nicer.
I feel like I am sitting at the kitchen table and we are having a casual conversation. You are very good at making videos. Imagine if infomercial were done like that.
I follow Alton Browns rule of kitchen gadgets. Buy no gadget that just does one job. This was funny to watch. I am not 100% sure but believe your standard bacon is called Canadian Bacon here.
in the usa about every 10 years or so a different company comes out with a version of this electric vertical broiler claiming it to be a revolutionary new way to cook bacon but they never work and go off the market pretty quickly.. the oldest ones i know of were made by presto in the 50's.
I cook bacon in the oven by placing the strips between 2 baking pans that nest together. This makes perfectly flat strips and keeps the splatter down. Also cooks both sides at once. Great review, I love your channel.
Why on Earth does it have to beep 10 times? Excessive. However the pre-heat setting would be ideal for warming your pants and socks on a cold winter's morning.
My brother and I bought our father a Hamilton Beach Baconer for Christmas in 1975, very much like the unit you display here but with more stainless steel to keep wiped up. He used it a few times then stashed it away- a solution to a problem he didn't have.
i like the oven because it constant heating all around the bacon and you can save the bacon fat very easily and use it in place of fats in some recipes.
American supermarket bacon is super thin and is generally barely the width of two fingers. You can get thicker cuts if there is a meat dept. or the exceptionally rare butcher, but that depends where you shop. Still, I don't think this device would have done any better with proper American bacon.
I buy Smithfield thick sliced bacon. It's considerably more expensive than the regular bacon but it's worth it. Tastes better, the slices are nice and thick, and it actually goes a lot further. I cook it in my old cast iron skillet that I've been using for more years than I care to think about.
The only gimmick type plastic kitchen appliance i truly love is the air fryer. Im exceptionally lazy when it comes to making food. And ive found that i dont use the oven at all anymore. Cooktop for boiling things, air fryer for chips, steak, bacon, calamari or other fish n chip shop type foods in batter, microwave for heating frozen peas and corn. Saves alot of time and cleaning. The air fryer tub and basket fit in the dishwasher if i dont put anything else in. Marvellous. Dinner always takes 20 minutes now not an hour n a half haha
Yep, another solution looking for a problem. Except in terms of splatter protection, this is worse in every way for cooking bacon, and can't cook anything else. If you care though, the reason it seems to fit only 3 slices of bacon, is yours is about twice the width of 'North American' bacon. Here in Canada, that kind of bacon has also taken over. You used to be able to get back bacon here (called Canadian bacon in the U.S., LOL) packaged, but now it's mostly over the butcher's counter if you want back bacon.
+Techmoan I think maybe the main benefit here is that it's very clean and tidy. And you're right, here state-side, our bacon is sliced thinner generally. So for us it would work better and take less time.
The bacon cooker is a very low-rez, low-fi appliance. (One-trick lame pony?) That expresso machine, on the other hand, looks like it runs at 80 watts per bean RMS (roasted mocha sensation) @ 0.019% THD across the entire coffee flavor spectrum. Is it a PS Audio product?
I typically oven cook mine. At 400F it takes roughly 16min for thick streaky bacon for 1-10 pounds. That's not including warm up time. Add another at least 10min for that. So this is actually quite express, that is, if you ignore the invention of a pan, or mini-oven, or panini press.
I guess it depends how you like your bacon. Growing up in Canada we had what you'd call 'streaky bacon', and I prefer it crispy which takes turning and time to get right. Lots of moisture. Now that I live in Australia, it's a more British bacon called 'rashers', which are almost all meat and very little fat an no moisture. Then there is 'speck', a northern European type of cured bacon that is drier and low in moisture. As for cooking, I have this handy invention called a frying pan, and although it takes about 20 minutes to get crispy bacon, it's worth it. Oh great, now I'm hungry. Cue the Rick Stein videos...
Try cooking it on the bottom of a baking pan. I did it once, and will never go back. Depending on the pan size, you can cook an entire pound of bacon at once, NO splatter and easy clean up, no rotating new pieces in. I have done it on a rack in the pan and without, it's more healthy to let it drain, but... it's bacon... so I let it cook in it's own grease. How do you like living "down under"?
yea same in france the bacon is a lots different already cut and completely fat-less so those kind of thing will never work. media3.abcpeyraud.com/1578-large_default/bacon-tranche-500-gr.jpg you cant find streaky bacon unless you ask a butcher to cut it like you want. and they just call it "poitrine" (aka chest so yea where the meat is from)
The best way to cook bacon is in the oven. Crinkle up some foil and then spread it out over a baking sheet. Lay the bacon on top of the fil. Oven at 400 degrees F for about 15 minutes.
ill pass will never cook anything on foil, its now been classed a health risk and can increase the risk of getting parkinson's and alzheimer's, i lost my grandad to parkinson's and have seen how horrifying of a disease it is so will not ever do anything that could contribute to it.
What a snidey product. Stick with your big Foreman grill. Faster & you can put your mushrooms & peppers & stuff on too. £50 too? Nah.... good review Tech. Great channel.
Just use the microwave, with bacon slices sandwiched between paper towels on a plate. Takes just 4-8 minutes, depending on bacon and how many slices. No mess because paper towels soak up fat. Plate just goes into dishwasher. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's so much easier just to crank the oven to broil, put the bacon on lipped cookies sheets, and in 10 minutes your done. No mess and best of all, you can harvest he bacon grease. You spend more time cleaning this, than making the bacon. But thanks for sharing
Here in the southern U.S you normally see streaky bacon that's not quite as wide (could fit 6 pieces in this machine I'd say) and is very thick and fatty. But considering it's Tennessee there is no shortage of any cuts of any meat, especially pork. We'll fry just about anything we can get our hands on! Love the channel man, keep up the great work!
As you've mentioned, the only real benefit I see (to me, if I were to have this) is that it's cleaner than cook top. Having my tiny kitchen covered in a film of bacon grease isn't ideal. I always enjoy your kitchen gadget reviews. :)
John Coops Except each piece of streaky he adds to the machine is actually two- the original comment is correct. Bacon is often packaged like this, two strips, side by side, skin side out. They tend to stick together slightly down the middle.
@Techmoan - this sort of product is what the Sledgehammer of Justice was made for. Don't think I've forgotten about that. I think it's time it made its vengeful return.
@@techandtrains101 Lol. It's good , really. Slip the bacon between two pieces of parchment paper. Couple minutes a slice. Some people think it can't make it crispy but you can keep cooking it until it gets crispy enough to make bacon bits
I've tried this before with turkey bacon, and it's...passable? Honestly though I don't know what's so hard about using a frying pan, it makes far better bacon.
Aaaahhg, I see unconsumed bacon, can you send it over here? Device is a total waste of time, no diversity in what it can do, everything takes longer and is just as much (or more) effort to clean. No advantage at all over other such counter top devices like the Foreman grill.
The streaky bacon you've shown at the beginning aside the back bacon is thicker than it is in america i think. The one in germany is thinner for sure. I'd say it's probably good for that one since it burns easily.
4:35 those streaky bacon slices are considered to contain two -- two streaks. So your "2" streaky slices are known as 4 -- you can pull them apart before cooking.
Its a bit of a Homer Simpson device it seems. I could see a use for it in a dorm I guess, but there are other faster ways to make bacon, like even the microwave.
George Foreman grill? We just call it a "table grill" here in the Netherlands, since you can put it on the table and fold it completely open to grill stuff with the family on it. Than again you can sandwich something between the two heating plates, toast... bacon... hamburgers or whatever, and cook it on two sides. For some things a quick clean with a paper towel is enough while its hot, for others you will have to wait to get the grill plates off and wash them. But yeah... those table grills are indeed much more versatile than that one trick apparatus you've got there to review.
There's nothing like a good George Foreman grill and jerry-rigging it to cook and egg on by adjusting the angle with some chopping boards. An egg done on there is well done!
I was surprised nobody mentioned this earlier. I hate microwaved food with a passion, but microwaved bacon is actually pretty decent. I tend to put a paper towel below and above the bacon strips. That way the microwave stays clean.
This is how they make pre-cooked bacon, like you'd find in restaurant sandwiches, at the factory. It's also an "official" method, I've seen it listed on the directions on the package, at least here in America.
I don't think that ARM cpu is hot enough. I'd delid an i9-7900X and use that for the cooking. Or a bunch of them... but then my kitchen would be on fire by the time the bacon is ready. So this bacon-toaster might not be such a bad idea after all. Even I can use it :-)
Wow that's awful - even the -normal- US-style bacon didn't cook properly. I like my bacon crispy (as do most people I know) and this design doesn't seem to really support that. Not to mention the insanely slow cook time for "express" bacon...
You could review a tree for 20 min and i would still watch it
Maybe he could review something like a singing christmas tree.
Or those dancing coke cans and sunflowers that were popular in the 80s
That review would quickly become disturbing as soon as he starts talking about the tree's nuts! :-)
Review maple please!
A RaspberryPine ;-)
Techmoan : One of my favourite youtubers. Laidback, knowledgeable, interesting reviews, bacon, puppets..
We don't care about your preferences mate.
@@nathaniliescu4597 Taking time out of your day to reply to a 2 and a half year old comment, seems like you do care mate.
@Allen Tokyo My favourite colour mate.. UK English. US English. I don't care the difference.
@Psycho Mantis Replying to a week old comment? Same could be said about you mate.
So you have 4 items to clean instead of just 1 pan? Overly complicating things is always a bad thing.
Using a pan? Are you mad?!
I always cook mine under the grill
american bacon is dry cured, uk bacon is danish, its injected with salty water, you cant microwave it, its a pain really, its to inflate the amount of bacon, so its best to cook in the oven and get the water out of it
Jusb1066 you can always buy the premium dry cure stuff over here. Well worth it unless you want to boil your bacon in yucky bacon water. Sticking danish bacon under the grill works quite well though as the water can escape.
Who are these people buying precooked bacon? I'm American and have never really seen people buy such a thing. Bacon is already extremely easy to make and practically cooks itself, so I don't think anyone would buy a premade product anyways.
I did order one on Amazon, but after seeing how terrible it is, I cancelled my order.
Larry Bundy Jr Good you're better off! The streaky bacon didn't even look like it was cooked thoroughly.
Larry Bundy Jr don't listen to him just try it
You are literally fucking everywhere larry haha wtf. from DSP detractor videos to techmoan...jeez
Larry Bundy Jr Well good that you saw this before it arrived.
I got one for Christmas. It is just ok. I am glad I didn't pay for it.
I think it was Alton Brown who railed against these specialist devices saying that dozens of these appliances could just be replaced with a panini press.
Pretty sure this is another one.
Edit: lol I commented before you mentioned the George Foreman grill, which essentially is the same as a panini press. Well played sir.
*UNITASKERS!*
I've been using my foreman grill for bacon for a long time. Great way to make crispy, flat strips.
This device could be replaced with a pan
@@nickputerbaugh9115 You need to flip that, though. The panini press does both sides at the same time.
i hate alton brown.
Heck I even watch a Techmoan video for a bacon toaster, when I've been vegetarian for 25 years.
I been been
Needless to say, The Bacon Express was not compatible with my version of bacon.
Well, not many bacon cookers are compatible with a whole slab. :P
Set oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Place bacon of the kind of thickness TM described as "streaky bacon" (in America this is somewhere between thin and thick aka medium thickness) on the parchment. Cook 12-15 minutes depending on how you like your bacon. 12 minutes is cooked but not crisp. 15 minutes is crispy not burnt. Set on paper towels to absorb excess grease. Blot the top of the bacon with the paper towel of you want to pretend to be health conscious but still want to enjoy bacon. Thin bacon is 9 minutes to done 11-12 for crispy. Thick cut is 16-17 minutes to done to 18-19 minutes for crispy.
It amazes me how many kitchen gadgets I can replace with an oven, hob and cookware
I can practically taste the disappointment. There are few things sadder in life than the broken promise of express bacon.
Yep.
2 days ago?
I believe Dave is a time traveller of sorts. *SHOW US YOUR METHODS*
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PATREON SUPPORTERS GET TO WATCH EARLY!!!!! WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THIS???
Good guess, but I am in fact a time traveller.
Need proof? Two days from now, Trump will publicly embarrass himself. I dare not say more as it could risk another temporal collapse, and we don't want that again, do we?
Techmoan is the type of guy who can review a banana and make it interesting
"A lovely yellow peel, nice texture, mushy but not too mushy."
oo-er, missus
baking sheet + oven = GREAT BACON
Cast Iron Skillet + Stove = GREAT BACON
Bacon Express + Bacon = MESS
This bacon is super soggy though, i noticed a huge difference travveling abroard
It's very difficult to make bad bacon but somehow nearly every single food van on the planet manages to screw it up
@@Voltaic_Fire they buy bad bacon from start too, that watery frozen shit
@@ZaJaClt That is true, no wonder it invariably comes out as a rubbery, unsalted mess when they can't even use salt if they hope to freeze it.
@@Voltaic_Fire i live in the uk where bacon (1.25£)leaves a puddle of water untill 20mins fried in a pan, went to new zealand couldnt find bacon that wasnt streaky and nice and the only pack for sale cost a fuckton like over 7£ and was a kilo
This is pretty much every gadget in Kickstarter: they promise to fix some minor inconvenience, which they try to sell as overpowering chore and then end up doing it slower while requiring to purchase some single purpose device to take space.
There's giant versions of these in most hotel rooms, and you can cook really huge rashers of bacon; they only cook very slowly though. They're labelled "Corby Trouser Press".
Got a smile from me, it's been years since I stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press.
The downside of the slow cooking time is offset by the fact that your bacon comes out super straight and flat, no creases. :)
Well, that device looks like a total waste of space, time and money! Fifty quid to get partly cooked bacon in under 13 minutes... I'd have expected to have my bacon butty made, eaten and cleaned up in that time. Oh, and your streaky bacon "slice" is actually two, they come as a pair and you're supposed to pull them apart to get the actual slices.
2 videos in a day? Am I in heaven?
amiran877 no your not there is no youtube in heaven
If you’re addicted to bacon and just need a consistent cadence of 4-5 slices every 10-12 minutes, truly this is your moment!?
You have mentioned many times how short the cord/lead is. I think it is because of the safety regulations. At least here in Finland, an electricity socket have to be at least 80 cm or so from a water source and the leads of appliances have to be shorter than that so it is impossible to get it in the water while plugged in the wall.
Prefer a Foreman grill, which also does great grilled cheese sandwiches.
I stack a single layer of slices/rashers on a couple of crinkled paper towels and then top the stack with a couple more paper towels. Into the microwave and bacon in minutes. Throw out the paper and wash a plate. Just that easy.
Congrats. I did since you ordered it. Not really, it is a religious debate. Besides, eating copious amounts of bacon will likely kill you faster. I prefer the cleaner cooking method and having a single multi-purpose appliance to several niche devices in the kitchen.
Elite Dangerous Club - Science does not support your microwave anxiety. Do you also believe in homeopathy and other 'woo' by any chance? Do you believe there are benefits to eating 'organic' vegetables for example?
We cook bacon regularly in the microwave as described and it works just fine. RF (Radio Frequency) waves are harmful to living things, including people but in a proper enclosure they can be made to work for you without harm. There is no residual energy left in the food or other weirdness like that. It cooks by exciting the water molecules in the food so it is a very specific kind of heat that ruins the texture of most meat and can make bread too hard to eat. In the case of bacon, it actually fries it just as would happen in the oven because the paper towels keep the meat in contact with the boiling water/fat that come out of the bacon as the temp rises. The only way to tell bacon cooked in a microwave for that cooked in a skillet would be the microwave bacon will be flat and not have the black flecks of scorched fat stuck on it that can easily happen in the skillet.
AngryRed Banjo Radio waves are actually not harmful unless you are too close to the transmitter (which you are not most of the time, and this also depends on wattage among other things). Radio waves (and microwaves, infrared, and visible light) are not ionizing radiation like ultraviolet light, x-rays, or gamma rays are.
Old idea. My mom received an almost identical item for Christmas in the early 70s - in popular 'harvest gold' color. Horrible to clean. A good frying pan is still best for bacon.
Explains the Art Deco styling, probably the exact same model!
Packed bacon but I cured
more stuff to clean..
doesn't really cook the bacon properly... and takes up more space in your kitchen
What you call crispy bacon, is what i call half finished bacon. it all needs to be cooked. white fat should be gone, and it should be all red/brown like the crispy parts of the bacon you had. The best way to achieve this, without burning some parts of the bacon, is to cook it in a normal pan on the stove, so it'll flop around in its own fat. Flip it every now and again, and use low heat. High heat just results in partially burned bacon
You can also keep the fat from the bacon, in a tupperware thing in your fridge. it's excellent for cooking various things (I love cooking chicken with it)
@@johncoops6897 There's no need to be rude.
As Alton Brown from Good Eats says, there should be no place in your kitchen for a unitasker. Yes the George Foreman is much more useful then this device.
He actually says that the only unitasker you should have in a kitchen is a fire extinguisher.
use a normal frying pan, you can get an egg and black pudding in too. Bacon on a bbq takes about 30 seconds and is awesome
a smell of petroleum pervades throughout You can even cook hash browns at the same time.
M3ta7h3ad I live in the states and while I was in England I had some black pudding. Didn't care for it, not because of taste but because of texture. But perhaps it was just that one that I had and maybe others are good.
Dana Harvey
Actually making blutwurst yourself isn that hard. There are many receipes on the internet (at least in german ;) )
@@1234q-q8x Theres different kinds, you were likely unlucky enough to get fine ground one, which is really just some sort of terrible paste, next time you go there get some 'rough'/'countryside' one, its much nicer.
Yesss a gadget review. TechMoan you are the very limited few Subscriptions that I genuinely get excited to watch every video. Keep it up!
I feel like I am sitting at the kitchen table and we are having a casual conversation. You are very good at making videos.
Imagine if infomercial were done like that.
I guess they'd sell more bacon than appliances. :-)
I follow Alton Browns rule of kitchen gadgets. Buy no gadget that just does one job. This was funny to watch. I am not 100% sure but believe your standard bacon is called Canadian Bacon here.
US Bacon is from the pork belly, Back Bacon is self-explanitory and Canadian bacon comes from the shoulder I believe.
No "uni-taskers" except for a good fire extinguisher....
So what else do you use your kettle for?
@@johnstevenson1709 You can boil hot dogs in it.
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You can do that right fine in a pan.
in the usa about every 10 years or so a different company comes out with a version of this electric vertical broiler claiming it to be a revolutionary new way to cook bacon but they never work and go off the market pretty quickly.. the oldest ones i know of were made by presto in the 50's.
The amount of enthusiasm and excitement over bacon is amazing, haha. Love it!
I cook bacon in the oven by placing the strips between 2 baking pans that nest together. This makes perfectly flat strips and keeps the splatter down. Also cooks both sides at once. Great review, I love your channel.
44% 1 star reviewed on amazon, yeah this totally sucks
How is this any easier than throwing it in a pan?
It isn't, rubbish idea this.
Less cleaning up after I think is the idea.
Lukeno52 maybe, it take less than a minute to wash and wipe out a non stick pan though.
I don't disagree, however many people are very lazy!
It's also the splatter to clean up on the stovetop.
A pan and one of those simple anti-splatter screens to cover the pan is the best way to cook bacon.
Why on Earth does it have to beep 10 times? Excessive.
However the pre-heat setting would be ideal for warming your pants and socks on a cold winter's morning.
hmm the smell of warm underpants in the morning...
Fresh and hot from the … grill?
My brother and I bought our father a Hamilton Beach Baconer for Christmas in 1975, very much like the unit you display here but with more stainless steel to keep wiped up. He used it a few times then stashed it away- a solution to a problem he didn't have.
He's far too excited for a simple bacon toaster but I love it :D
he gets to eat bacon!
It's not simple at all m8
you called him a toaster?
I could cook it a lot quicker in a pan
That's the point of all the kitchen gadget videos.
i like the oven because it constant heating all around the bacon and you can save the bacon fat very easily and use it in place of fats in some recipes.
American supermarket bacon is super thin and is generally barely the width of two fingers. You can get thicker cuts if there is a meat dept. or the exceptionally rare butcher, but that depends where you shop. Still, I don't think this device would have done any better with proper American bacon.
I buy Smithfield thick sliced bacon. It's considerably more expensive than the regular bacon but it's worth it. Tastes better, the slices are nice and thick, and it actually goes a lot further. I cook it in my old cast iron skillet that I've been using for more years than I care to think about.
I just saw an ad for this a couple days ago and was considering getting it, glad I watched your review first!
Love your quirky videos.
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Britec09 your videos are pretty awesome Brian 👍
Hey, it's that one IT dude!
It man
The only gimmick type plastic kitchen appliance i truly love is the air fryer. Im exceptionally lazy when it comes to making food. And ive found that i dont use the oven at all anymore. Cooktop for boiling things, air fryer for chips, steak, bacon, calamari or other fish n chip shop type foods in batter, microwave for heating frozen peas and corn. Saves alot of time and cleaning. The air fryer tub and basket fit in the dishwasher if i dont put anything else in. Marvellous. Dinner always takes 20 minutes now not an hour n a half haha
Yep, another solution looking for a problem. Except in terms of splatter protection, this is worse in every way for cooking bacon, and can't cook anything else. If you care though, the reason it seems to fit only 3 slices of bacon, is yours is about twice the width of 'North American' bacon. Here in Canada, that kind of bacon has also taken over. You used to be able to get back bacon here (called Canadian bacon in the U.S., LOL) packaged, but now it's mostly over the butcher's counter if you want back bacon.
Exidy YT Uhm, no. Canadian Bacon in the US is not back bacon. It's a weird round much close in texture and flavor profile to ham.
+Techmoan
I think maybe the main benefit here is that it's very clean and tidy. And you're right, here state-side, our bacon is sliced thinner generally. So for us it would work better and take less time.
The bacon cooker is a very low-rez, low-fi appliance. (One-trick lame pony?) That expresso machine, on the other hand, looks like it runs at 80 watts per bean RMS (roasted mocha sensation) @ 0.019% THD across the entire coffee flavor spectrum. Is it a PS Audio product?
That's what I kept focusing on. I want to know more about the coffee/espresso machine in the back. lol
@@guitfdlr It looks like a Whirlpool ACE010IX. Quite a looker I have to say.
I typically oven cook mine. At 400F it takes roughly 16min for thick streaky bacon for 1-10 pounds. That's not including warm up time. Add another at least 10min for that. So this is actually quite express, that is, if you ignore the invention of a pan, or mini-oven, or panini press.
two uploads in one day? what have we done to deserve this??
He had to wait to get a "reply" from his "letterpack" (see Mail Call video) and what better thing to do than bake some bacon ;-)
It reminds me of those old toasters from the 60s or 70s that had doors to put in your bread.
I guess it depends how you like your bacon. Growing up in Canada we had what you'd call 'streaky bacon', and I prefer it crispy which takes turning and time to get right. Lots of moisture. Now that I live in Australia, it's a more British bacon called 'rashers', which are almost all meat and very little fat an no moisture. Then there is 'speck', a northern European type of cured bacon that is drier and low in moisture. As for cooking, I have this handy invention called a frying pan, and although it takes about 20 minutes to get crispy bacon, it's worth it. Oh great, now I'm hungry. Cue the Rick Stein videos...
Try cooking it on the bottom of a baking pan.
I did it once, and will never go back.
Depending on the pan size, you can cook an entire pound of bacon at once, NO splatter and easy clean up, no rotating new pieces in.
I have done it on a rack in the pan and without, it's more healthy to let it drain, but... it's bacon... so I let it cook in it's own grease.
How do you like living "down under"?
...and I suppose gammon is out of the question.
yea same in france the bacon is a lots different
already cut and completely fat-less so those kind of thing will never work.
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you cant find streaky bacon unless you ask a butcher to cut it like you want. and they just call it "poitrine" (aka chest so yea where the meat is from)
Tailslol
That looks like Canadian Bacon.
i used to cook bacon in the oven, using the wire rack. stick it in there and broil.
George Foreman. The one and only.
The best way to cook bacon is in the oven. Crinkle up some foil and then spread it out over a baking sheet. Lay the bacon on top of the fil. Oven at 400 degrees F for about 15 minutes.
ill pass will never cook anything on foil, its now been classed a health risk and can increase the risk of getting parkinson's and alzheimer's,
i lost my grandad to parkinson's and have seen how horrifying of a disease it is so will not ever do anything that could contribute to it.
jeez, review everything! Your honesty and methodical approach will help everyone.
What a snidey product. Stick with your big Foreman grill. Faster & you can put your mushrooms & peppers & stuff on too. £50 too? Nah.... good review Tech. Great channel.
Induction element + Cast iron fry pan = perfection
Yup, the George Forman is definitely batter than that.
Just use the microwave, with bacon slices sandwiched between paper towels on a plate. Takes just 4-8 minutes, depending on bacon and how many slices. No mess because paper towels soak up fat. Plate just goes into dishwasher. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
George Foreman best way to make bacon. Unattended & no mess, That Bacon Express more like Bacon Regret.
That has to be a fire risk. Grease rolling down past an element with just a tin divider? If that element ever glows red, that grease will go wooosh!
Thick bacon in a 350f oven takes about 18 minutes at 5k ft. That's right, I didn't use metric time either.
In proper SI units its 1.08 kiloseconds
I started laughing when you tried to curl the bacon the other way to cook the other side!
Two videos uploaded today and no Muppets :( still great content as always, keep up the good work!
The drip tray effectively showed all the crap that is put into bacon to get the weight up. Nearly a full tray of water from three rashers.
It's so much easier just to crank the oven to broil, put the bacon on lipped cookies sheets, and in 10 minutes your done. No mess and best of all, you can harvest he bacon grease. You spend more time cleaning this, than making the bacon. But thanks for sharing
capitolemiproducer
Broil?
ThatSuaveRaptor Means grill.
Here in the southern U.S you normally see streaky bacon that's not quite as wide (could fit 6 pieces in this machine I'd say) and is very thick and fatty. But considering it's Tennessee there is no shortage of any cuts of any meat, especially pork. We'll fry just about anything we can get our hands on! Love the channel man, keep up the great work!
Should do some cuisine shows :) CuisineMoan - like... "faaaaaaaaaaack it's tasty"
Last applience review I watched (cheese toaster), it DID come from the US and the reviewer DIDN'T step down the voltage. It caught fire. Twice.
Do you have a link to it?
@@SquishyZoran
I believe it's this one.
m.ruclips.net/video/H66Fbg9nrk4/видео.html
@@PatienceDepleted Yup. It was that one!
As you've mentioned, the only real benefit I see (to me, if I were to have this) is that it's cleaner than cook top. Having my tiny kitchen covered in a film of bacon grease isn't ideal.
I always enjoy your kitchen gadget reviews. :)
It is a convenience tool say like in an RV trailer or you have a small area to cook this is an ideal .
George Foreman would knock the Bacon Express out any day
Recently found your channel. Better content than tv even back when it was good, keep up the fantastic work and god bless!
That was 4 slices of streaky bacon not 2!
John Coops Except each piece of streaky he adds to the machine is actually two- the original comment is correct. Bacon is often packaged like this, two strips, side by side, skin side out. They tend to stick together slightly down the middle.
Love it. I really don't know how people can give you a thumbs down! Your videos are great.
bacon haters
Jusb1066 Pigs ;)
Everyone knows you fry up the back bacon on the Coleman, eh?
Bob Riemersma Koo koo koo kaloo koo koo..
Techmoan and The 8-Bit Guy are probably my fav youtube channels.
.......... An in-cabinet mount ESPRESSO MACHINE?!?!?!?!
@Techmoan - this sort of product is what the Sledgehammer of Justice was made for. Don't think I've forgotten about that. I think it's time it made its vengeful return.
Will it work with streaky or back bacon? I love the attempt to set up some suspense lol.
Waking up to two new Techmoan videos, one of them about bacon? Today's a good day, indeed.
I often think that some ideas just shouldn't be made and I think a machine to cook bacon is one of them.
The Bacon Express: Cooks only bacon, but less of it and slower!
I have an express bacon cooker. It's called a MICROWAVE! only 2 minutes per slice
No... Just no.
I don't know what's more of an abomination, that or making tea in a microwave
@@techandtrains101 Lol. It's good , really. Slip the bacon between two pieces of parchment paper. Couple minutes a slice. Some people think it can't make it crispy but you can keep cooking it until it gets crispy enough to make bacon bits
I've tried this before with turkey bacon, and it's...passable?
Honestly though I don't know what's so hard about using a frying pan, it makes far better bacon.
Psssh. Real men cook bacon with a blowtorch on a metal codpiece. That they're wearing. Or...or is that just me?
Real men make bacon with an unquenched sword, straight from the blacksmith's forge and a frenzied wild boar.
I saw a show where someone was using a clothes iron
damn risky
Your kitchen must smell lovely after cooking that bacon
Aaaahhg, I see unconsumed bacon, can you send it over here? Device is a total waste of time, no diversity in what it can do, everything takes longer and is just as much (or more) effort to clean. No advantage at all over other such counter top devices like the Foreman grill.
The George Foreman grill IS the bacon express! Lay the strips out on it, close and set the timer for 9 mins. Perfect bacon every time.
Bacon Express fails. Love my George Foreman grill as well.
Not the hero that RUclips wants, but the hero RUclips deserves.
an app for bacon cooking lmao
The streaky bacon you've shown at the beginning aside the back bacon is thicker than it is in america i think. The one in germany is thinner for sure. I'd say it's probably good for that one since it burns easily.
Hungry now.....
4:35 those streaky bacon slices are considered to contain two -- two streaks. So your "2" streaky slices are known as 4 -- you can pull them apart before cooking.
MAKIN BACON
Its a bit of a Homer Simpson device it seems. I could see a use for it in a dorm I guess, but there are other faster ways to make bacon, like even the microwave.
Nah, too much cleaning going on, absolute rubbish.
George Foreman grill? We just call it a "table grill" here in the Netherlands, since you can put it on the table and fold it completely open to grill stuff with the family on it. Than again you can sandwich something between the two heating plates, toast... bacon... hamburgers or whatever, and cook it on two sides. For some things a quick clean with a paper towel is enough while its hot, for others you will have to wait to get the grill plates off and wash them.
But yeah... those table grills are indeed much more versatile than that one trick apparatus you've got there to review.
What a hilariously shit device.
There's nothing like a good George Foreman grill and jerry-rigging it to cook and egg on by adjusting the angle with some chopping boards. An egg done on there is well done!
Plate, paper towel microwave...
I was surprised nobody mentioned this earlier. I hate microwaved food with a passion, but microwaved bacon is actually pretty decent. I tend to put a paper towel below and above the bacon strips. That way the microwave stays clean.
This is how they make pre-cooked bacon, like you'd find in restaurant sandwiches, at the factory. It's also an "official" method, I've seen it listed on the directions on the package, at least here in America.
I've seen these advertised, always wondered about back bacon as it always seemed streaky advertised. Very informative my man 👍 .. great vid!
Only thing I had to make a bacon butty after watching this, had me clamming hahaha 🤗
You could do that with a raspberry pi.
I don't think that ARM cpu is hot enough. I'd delid an i9-7900X and use that for the cooking. Or a bunch of them... but then my kitchen would be on fire by the time the bacon is ready. So this bacon-toaster might not be such a bad idea after all. Even I can use it :-)
But can you do it with "finger" pi? :-D
with some amd
Wow that's awful - even the -normal- US-style bacon didn't cook properly. I like my bacon crispy (as do most people I know) and this design doesn't seem to really support that. Not to mention the insanely slow cook time for "express" bacon...
What is the make and model of your coffee machine in the background please?
Whirlpool ACE 010Ix I think
Damn, is that a Whirlpool?!?
I have to admit...I'm more excited about the built-in espresso maker than the bacon cooker.