Air Fryer Bacon (No Smoke) – Recipe Diaries (2024)

Published: Aug 22, 2022 · Modified: Jun 6, 2023 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 9 Comments

Making bacon in the air fryer is the only way or method you'll want to cook bacon from now on. No more grease splatters and easy clean-up. Plus, the bacon is ready in under 10 minutes!

Over the past couple of days, I've been trying many different methods for cooking bacon. There's baking bacon in the oven, cooking bacon on a stovetop, and even in your microwave to name a few different methods. If you have an air fryer you're going to love cooking homemade bacon in it.

The air fryer is one of my favorite kitchen appliances. Check out some of these recipes! Air Fryer Omelette, Air Fryer Poutine, or Air Fryer Turkey Breast!

Ingredients Needed

Bacon - The ingredient that makes every food tasty and 100 times better! Use thin or thick slices or different bacon

Note: If possible purchase bacon at a local butcher shop. It always tastes better than what you can get at a grocery store!

How to Make Air Fryer Bacon

Step 1: Place the bacon in the bottom of your air fryer basket. Use some tinfoil or parchment paper for easy clean up.

Step 2: Air Fry the bacon at 400 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes. Open up the air fryer and flip the bacon. Put the air fryer basket back in and cook for another 3 minutes or until however crispy you like your bacon.

Notes Place a wire rack or trivet over your bacon that came with air fryer. This is optional. If you don't have a wire rack that came with your air fryer, then you don't need one.

How to prevent Smoke in the Air Fryer

Have you ever tried cooking bacon in the air fryer and your smoke detector goes off? This has even happened to me when I'm cooking bacon in my air fryer. The smoke or steam comes out of the air fryer and reaches the smoke detector.

Parchment Paper: To prevent this from happening you can cook your bacon between two pieces of parchment paper or add some water to the bottom of your air fryer basket. If you try the parchment paper method you may need to cook the bacon a little longer.

Bread Method: Place 1 or 2 slices of bread on the bottom of the air fryer basket. The sponge will soak or pick up any grease that drips from the bacon.

Water method: If you don't have any bread water works well too. The water goes underneath the air fryer basket.

How long to cook bacon in the air fryer?

Lay strips of bacon out onto the bottom of your basket. Set your air fryer to 350 degrees and follow the cooking times for different cuts of bacon below. If the bacon isn't crispy enough for you set the timer for 2 minutes longer. You can use a wire rack below to keep your bacon from flying around in the air fryer. If you don't have one, no problem.

Regular Bacon - 8 to 9 minutes

Thick Cut Bacon - 10 - 12 minutes

Turkey Bacon - 8 to 10 minutes

How to use Air Fryer Bacon

Are you wondering what you can all make with perfectly cooked bacon made in the air fryer? Try some of these tasty side dishes.

Pasta Salads: Chop up any bacon and add it to this BLT Pasta Salad or Cheeseburger Pasta.

Sandwiches: Make Ina Garten's California BLT Sandwich or a Grilled Chicken Burgers with Bacon

Crock Pot Sides: Chop the bacon up and add it to these tasty side dishes. Crock Pot Mac and Cheese, Slow Cooker Calico Beans You can add any leftover bacon to these two great slow cooker recipes.

PIzza: Bacon is always great on pizzas such as Bacon Mac and Cheese Pizza or Air Fryer Pepperoni Pita Pizzas.

Breakfast: Leftover bacon is great in these Air Fryer Egg Cups.

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Other air fryer recipes

This youtube video shows you how to make Candied bacon but it basically is the same process. Just cook it for 8 minutes instead of 12 if not using any brown sugar. Check out my youtube channel.

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