I agree its easier (microwaving is easier still, making that the "easiest"), but best? Whenever I invite people over to the house for breakfast, and I refuse to bake or microwave my bacon, I follow the guide of cook's illustrated (start from a cold pan with room temperature bacon, constantly flip to cook evenly), and my guests who are used to "baked bacon" consistently "fall in love" all over again with bacon. Baked bacon has a tough texture to it that fried bacon doesn't, where as fried bacon is "crisp" rather than "hard". Its like people trying to convince me that they can make baked chicken wings as good as fried. I might compromise for health, but don't lie to me! Enjoy baked bacon as a compromise, and maybe even prefer the texture if thats how you like bacon to be, but personally, I get disappointed anywhere I go and I'm promised bacon (which to me means fried) and get baked. :'(

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