Saturday morning seemed like a good time to write about a product I’ve been given a chance to test because around here weekends are big breakfast days. A couple of weeks ago the CrispyClean Bacon Broiler came to live with us. It’s the only completely enclosed microwave bacon cooker on the market, which means there’s no grease all over the place when you’re done. As someone who hates to clean the kitchen, I can say without reservations that this new little invention is a good, good thing and has already performed yeoman service for us.

Frankly, the CrispyClean looks like a pitcher of some kind with a lid that locks down via two rotating clamps. Inside is where the genius starts. When you lift the lid off you remove a bacon rack that looks like an elongated cog. The lid itself rotates and detaches to give you complete access to the rack. You just drape the bacon over the blades of the rack, refit the lid, put the whole thing inside the canister-like body, lock the lid down and microwave (according to the instructions for the bacon you selected.)

For our microwave, which is pretty powerful, we had six strips of perfectly crisp bacon in about 4 minutes. All the grease ran to the bottom of the canister. I let it cool, poured it into an old soup can, and threw it away. All the CrispyClean needed was a good washing with the other dishes (it is dishwasher safe, by the way) and I was done.

Yes, I get to keep the CrisypyClean and I did get a whole five bucks to write this review, but I’m being completely honest when I say you want one of these in your kitchen. That’s the one room in the house that causes the most controversy between me and R. There are many, many times when I neither want to nor have the time to clean up the kitchen to the extent her idea of what constitutes “cooking” requires.

It’s a simple equation. She loves bacon. I hate cooking it because of the mess. CrispyClean Bacon Broiler. Problem solved.