Can You Make Bacon In An Air Fryer

For a savoury air fryer party snack you can also try stuffing smaller peppers with cubes of mozzarella and serving them with a marinara dipping sauce.

Can you make bacon in an air fryer.

My air fryer makes fantastic bacon in 7 8 minutes if preheated to 390. There s no need to preheat the device so you ll come out with crispy bacon in seven to 11 minutes. This method would burn my bacon to a blackened mess. You must cook the bacon in batches like you do in a skillet.

How to cook bacon in the air fryer. Set air fryer to 400 and cook until crispy about 10 minutes. Prep the bacon air fryers come in various shapes and sizes but most of them have a round basket. Therefore you will need to prep the bacon by cutting the slices in half.

Set your air fryer to 400f for 10 minutes. I also recommend cutting package in half and placing the 1 2 strips around the basket with minimal overlap. You should have not have to flip. But there is one disadvantage of making bacon in the air fryer when compared to the oven method.

Check with 2 3 min remaining and turn toss or shake up as needed for most even cooking. You can also cut the bacon into fourths allowing you to fit more bacon in the air fryer. You ll probably have to do this more than once and trust me opening and closing the air fryer basket so frequently is incredibly annoying. I was able to do a twelve ounce package from trader joe s in two batches.

Cook the bacon arrange the bacon in the air fryer side by side do not layer the bacon on top of each other. It is a twelve ounce package and it had eleven slices fyi. A few folds are okay but try not to overcrowd the pan. And finally your bacon grease will drain into the bottom of the air fryer.

But back to cooking bacon in the air fryer. Air fried zucchini makes for a crispy snack. Sure you can stop the air frying process pour out the bacon grease and continue cooking. Just arrange them in the basket.

Layer the bacon in the air fryer basket. You can overlap the slices a bit because that bacon is going to shrink and shrink. This also allows the bacon to cook more evenly. That means your bacon will crisp up nicely and not be soaked in grease.

You re also highly likely to spill bacon grease all over your countertop like i did. You can check halfway through and rearrange slices with tongs. Having no clue how to.