This is great for frying bacon without splattering grease everywhere. Holds about 4 full slices of bacon and makes it perfect and not curled up. Great for eggs too, no need for butter or grease to fry either.  It opens up so you can use both sides or close to press down sandwiches or whatever.  I use it closed when doing bacon so i don't get the splatter. Super easy to clean and it goes in the dishwasher too. Only problem I have found with this, is that when we make bacon, we have to lift up one end to make the grease go into the grease cups (comes with 2 cups for catching grease) there are 2 spots to catch grease when opened up and then you only need 1 when the unit is closed.