You only have to try cooking bacon in the Air Fryer once for it to become your new favorite way to cook bacon. It's perfectly crisp every time and since the air circulates, there's no need to flip the bacon halfway.
Air fryer bacon cook time and temperature
Ten minutes on 400 degrees F will do the trick. I did take a peek half way through to see if anything needed to be re-spaced. Tongs are extremely helpful for this.
You do not need to flip the bacon during the cook time. The only exception is if your bacon is very thick cut. In this case, you may want to flip the bacon after it has been in the oven for 12 minutes to ensure that both sides cook evenly.
Tantalizingly crisp, dangerously easy to make, and smelling of the heavens, bacon in the air fryer is hands-down the best bacon I've ever cooked.
Place the bacon halves on the rack that came with the air fryer (so they aren't sitting directly on the bottom) in an even layer. Cook for 5-8 minutes until cooked to your liking. If the bacon moves or curls while cooking, simply use tongs to keep everything in a single layer.
less messy than the stovetop think, no more grease splattering everywhere. most air fryer parts are dishwasher safe. the bacon crisps up in less than 10 minutes. it's the crispiest bacon ever!
Preheat air fryer to 300° Fahrenheit. Once air fryer comes to temperature, place raw eggs in air fryer basket. Place basket in air fryer and set cook time based on desired doneness: 9 minutes for soft-boiled eggs, 11 minutes for medium-boiled eggs, or 13 minutes for hard-boiled eggs.
Once the bacon begins to sizzle, you're in business. Another common error is in the flipping. There is no need to continually flip your bacon while it cooks. Allow it to cook evenly by flipping it only once, just as you would a good steak.
First, arrange the bacon in a single layer in a cast iron pan or other heavy skillet. Then cook the bacon over medium-high heat until browned on bottom, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip with tongs and cook until browned on the other side, about 2 minutes.
Blot it with some paper towels, however, and it should feel dry to the touch. When you are cooking bacon, you may notice some white foam surrounding each strip. This is the fat being rendered out. It is typically a sign that you should flip the strip over as well.
Since food is suspended in the air fryer basket, most of the excess fat from the bacon will be rendered off during cooking. This makes air-fried bacon significantly healthier than bacon cooked in the oven or on the stovetop, because it isn't cooking in its own grease.
An air fryer is simply a small oven that runs on convection heat. The heat is circulated around a tight space by a powerful fan that lies just below or behind the heating element. Just as in a standard oven, it is perfectly safe to use aluminum foil in the air fryer.
Place a sheet of parchment paper or aluminum foil over the air fryer basket before putting in the bacon. During cooking, pause the air fryer halfway through and remove any accumulated grease from the basket. Clean the air fryer immediately after cooking bacon before the grease hardens.
Here's why: Bacon doesn't require any excess oil or butter to cook because it's so full of fat. So when hot air is circulated around the bacon, your air fryer will fill up with rendered bacon fat, which will then burn and maybe even release smoke from your machine.
Preheat an air fryer to 390 degrees F (200 degrees C) according to manufacturer's instructions. Lay bacon in the air fryer basket in a single layer; some overlap is okay. Fry for 8 minutes. Flip and continue cooking until bacon is crisp, about 7 minutes more.
Yes, you can use foil. I do this often; however, you want to be sure that the entire basket isn't covered. The purpose of the air fryer is to get the air circulating to cook, so you do not want to close off all of that air into the basket.
Here's Why. It always seems even the simplest methods for cooking bacon result in a messy cleanup — be it in the oven or microwave. But cooking bacon in an air fryer might be one of the easiest ways to collect and deal with the bacon fat that's left behind.
The main reason is because foods with lots of fat will release grease and splatter on the heating element. This causes the air fryer to smoke and release white smoke, often following by burning smells and burnt food. But this doesn't mean that you can't cook higher fat air fried foods.