If you thought Bacon Salt was clever, have a gander at this. Forget the buzzer. Forget the radio. Hell, forget new-fangled MP3 players. How about starting your morning off being roused by an alarm clock that wakes you with the sound and smell of sizzling bacon?
Genius. Pure genius, I tell you. Now if it could fry up a few eggs and add a two-slice toaster and automatic butterer, we’d really be talking!
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That has to be the best thing that I have seen in a very long time. I hope that whoever thought that up makes a bit fat pile of money.
The only part that bothers me about it, (and it’s a risk I’m willing to take for fresh AM bacon, A reward worth getting out of bed for), is that you put it in the night before, and it sits there… all… night… long…
Yeah, but it starts frozen. I think that we have gotten really weird about germs in this culture. We used to think nothing of leaving the meat out all day to thaw and then cooking it.
I would like to see a more high-tech looking device, however. And I do wonder about cleanup.
Yeah…but…it’s bacon! Bacon is what they do to pork so it lasts all winter long. Ain’t nothin’ making it through all that salt and nitrates in 12 hours.
Well, to be fair, that’s a hack job, thus could be considered a prototype. I am certain that further modification could be engineered that would allow it to partially refrigerate the bacon while you slept, and then automatically deactivate the refrigeration process at a set time and start the bacon fryin’ up. I am certain that if this were developed right it could change the face of breakfast forever. Think of it: You are awakened to the aroma and sizzle of bacon that you can eat first thing – before you’ve even gotten out of bed, since by the time it’s all sizzly and you’ve awakened enough to be cognizant of your desire for bacon, it will be ready.
Oh, and yes. We will need a more attractive package than a wooden pig.
I’m with ya… but all those years of "it’s been on the counter, it’ll kill 'ya " brainwashing that my mom did.
My doctor probably wouldn’t like the extra cholesterol hit to my diet, but if we could engineer a heated *bacon salt * treat for breakfast, then we might be able to spread this to the masses in a more efficient manner. 
Hey, I had a wacky thought.
What would happen if you added the bacon salt … to bacon? It would be like double bacon! I mean, a veritable explosion of bacon! Combine the bacon salt’s extra preservative action with the bacon itself, then put it in the bacon clock and by Og’s mighty nostril, you’ll wake to bacon so powerful and irresistible and bacteria-free that you couldn’t help but feel all tingly when you awaken.
What happens if a grease fire starts before you get up?
I couldn’t sleep thinking of the potential for fire. It’s hot enough for cooking, but it’s in a wooden case. What happens when the timer breaks and the lights stay on? The sleeper could be a toss and turner, and the pillow ends up on the cooker, or the unit gets knocked to the floor up side down. The bacon lands on the halogen bulb.
Remember that halogen lights have been banned in many college dorms, and the many were recalled because a stray article of clothing would start on fire, when put on them. I had to stop using mine during the ladybug invasions of fall, because it filled up with bodies, and it was smoking when I saw what was happening.
It’s hot enough to cook, but it does so slowly – 10-15 minutes, apparently, which suggests to me that it’s not really hot enough to ignite flames. The tray looks deep enough that the bulb would be at least 4-5 inches away from the bacon, and if it’s not hot enough to cook like a frying pan, it’s probably not hot enough to cause bits of crease to pop up at the bulb. Plus, in any production model I would expect there to be a glass shield between the halogen bulb and the cooking tray. And of course, it wouldn’t be made of wood. Don’t think of this specific model as what you’d be using, but rather as the seed of an idea of what you could be using.
Picture, if you will, a stainless model, 6 inches or so tall, a couple of halogen bulbs in the roof cooking bacon in an aluminum tray that has a hot plate underneath it to help cook the bacon on both sides. (Not one that gets really hot, just enough to aid in the process) It’s sealed from the outside except for some filtered vents to exhaust heat – and that bacony aroma and sizzle, of course. Add in a safety system that douses the pan with baking soda if it detects a fire and your concerns should be well addressed. 