Bacon Bowl
Why eat bacon beside your eggs when you can eat eggs inside your bacon? The Bacon Bowl mold lets you wrap raw strips around a plastic cup, microwave, and voilà—an edible bowl made entirely of crispy pork. Add mac ’n’ cheese, salad, even ice cream, the ad proclaimed, because who doesn’t crave a scoop of Rocky Road in a grease cup?
Alas, microwaved bacon often emerges rubbery, not crispy. Grease overflows the tray, coating the microwave in shimmering splatter. Removing the sizzling bowl requires asbestos fingers, and cooling warps the delicate shape into a shriveled pork puck. While oven use fares better, you could achieve the same effect with an upside-down muffin tin. The Bacon Bowl remains a cholesterol-soaked novelty—fun once, then shelved next to the deep-fried-butter recipe you’ll never attempt again.
