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Norpro Grill/Bacon Press | 
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| Brand: Norpro
Buy New: $7.99
Rating:  9 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 4.9 x 3.5
MPN: 1400
Model: 1400
UPC: 028901014001
EAN: 0028901014001
ASIN: B00004UE7B
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Presses frying bacon flat to prevent curling | | • | Use also for flattening burgers, grilled sandwiches, quesadillas | | • | Made of cast-iron, with stay-cool wooden handle | | • | Needs to be seasoned before use | | • | Hand wash in soapy water and lightly coat with oil |
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Product Description
Short on time? Handy press will cook your bacon in half the time.
Amazon.com Review
Bacon curls while frying, making it difficult to cook evenly. Long ago, cooks found a simple solution to this problem: hold bacon to its proper shape by flattening it with a heavy, cast-iron press. Norpro's press hews to that tradition. It's made of traditional cast iron and has a wooden handle that stays cool while the press is in use. For speeding up the bacon-frying process, the press can be preheated--also preheat it when you're flattening hamburgers, grilled sandwiches, or quesadillas. Season the press by coating it with oil and heating it for 20 minutes; after cleaning it in soapy water, it should also be lightly coated with vegetable oil to prevent rust. --Fred Brack
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Embossed design on bottom prevents proper cleaning! October 3, 2008
Steve Lokietz (Cornwall, NY, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Someone didn't think things through on this. There's a "Bacon Press" design on the bottom surface that has all sorts of irregular nooks and crannies, it's a pain in the behind to clean. The round bacon press by Norpro is much better (though a bit big for some situations) because the bottom surface is just ridged to give that striped "grilled look".
I don't know why that design is not on the top surface instead of on the bottom. Just plain dumb.
 Only 6 1/2" in length January 9, 2008
Dory (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is only 6 1/2" in length. I thought it would be longer since bacon is cut approx. 10" so you have to keep moving it around. The weight is good.
 Simple to use, but only one use January 18, 2007
Marshall's Sauces (Northwest Ohio)
I wouldn't fry bacon without my Bacon Press or even a hamburger, but that's all it does, with the possible exception of being used as a door stop. Seriously, I like it for what it does, makes my bacon flat and fully cooked.
dimensions wrong May 29, 2005
anon
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was looking for a larger press and thought I had found one. The dimensions stae this is 11.25 inches. It is only about 6 inches long, so I had to send it back. Now I am out shippng charges!
Not bad March 20, 2005
David Klinger (Houston)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Everytime we would cook a big weekend breakfast, I would remember the grill presses from when I was a kid and mutter to myself that I needed one. Saw it here at Amazon and decided to give it a try.
Pros - It works just like I remembered. It holds the bacon down and keeps it flat while cooking. This produces a very consistently cooked piece of meat, which is what I was looking for. We prefer our bacon crispy, but not overcooked, and this does a fine job. If you like crisp bacon then this press is what you are looking for.
Cons - It is iron, you have to remember to season it. That's not necessarily a con if you are familiar with cooking with iron cookware, but my darling wife is not and she put it in the dishwasher - repeatedly. Now the darn thing has rust on it that is proving difficult to deal with. That is where the cute little design of a pig on its face comes into being a con. It's difficult to clean around all of its ridges. The design does not prove a difficulty in cleaning normal food particles off, just in my case with the rust.
The addition of some kind of drip pan would be nice as well, but I live without it well enough. When I am done cooking I just lift it off the pan for a moment and let most of the grease run off. Then, a couple of paper towels folding up as a blotter do well to keep the mess down while we eat and the press waits for a hand cleaning.
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