How to not smoke up the kitchen when cooking bacon

[brutal37138]

Ok, I need some advice. Every time we attempt to cook bacon, it smokes and not just a little bit, but it pretty much makes the whole kitchen smokey and sometimes the whole house (it's not a huge house). I'm not sure if its the bacon we're buying, the pans we are using, or the temperature it is being cooked at. Any ideas? Because I have a feeling we are doing something wrong.

 

[clairebeautiful]

You probably aren't going to like these two suggestions but here they are:

1. cook bacon in the microwave. Yes, it lacks that awesome pan fried flavor. But. No smoke.
2. cook it in the oven, on a pan, covered.

Cooking it in the oven to me yields the same flavor as pan fried on top of the stove, but there is FAR less clean up and it doesn't smoke. I lay it out on a shallow baking sheet (one with sides that won't allow the grease to run everywhere) and cover with foil. I like my bacon a little crispy, so I do that for, I don't know, 10 minutes in a 400 degree oven. I just keep checking it to see if it is done.

 

[sandra0530]

Ok, I need some advice. Every time we attempt to cook bacon, it smokes and not just a little bit, but it pretty much makes the whole kitchen smokey and sometimes the whole house (it's not a huge house). I'm not sure if its the bacon we're buying, the pans we are using, or the temperature it is being cooked at. Any ideas? Because I have a feeling we are doing something wrong.

I have the same problem! I have been trying to figure it out but recently If I notice that it is starting to smoke up I just lower the temperature and I turn on the microwave vent fan and that helps a little :/

 

[MyDigitalpoint]

Buying an air purifier or a stove extractor fan could be a good investment to prevent smoke when cooking not just bacon but many other food, including the removal of strong odors, like when you boil cauliflower.

 

[OhioTom76]

You could try draining some of the fat as you're cooking it, into something like a sturdy glass jar. Also, cook it at a lower heat, you probably have it up too high. I don't cook bacon in a pan, but when I am cooking sausage, if I have it up too high it almost always sets off my smoke alarms.

 

[zestery]

Yeah, I drain as I cook and don't have too much trouble with smoke. It also cooks better that way, with crisp bits. And I use the drippings later in other stuff. Win-win.

 

[brutal37138]

Alrighty! Drain and lower temperature. We'll give it a try, more often than not its my boyfriend. We've been blaming it on our crappy skillets, but we just bought a new one and he smoked the whole house up again! Lol I guess we'll eventually figure it out!

Oh, I like the idea of baking it too and we have the perfect pans for that!! Can't wait to give it a try!