We’ve all been there, right? You’re frying bacon or hamburgers on the stove and the grease from it is splattering all over the stove, counter next to it and even the floor in front of the stove. You’d like to put a cover on it, but if you do, the ‘frying’ will quickly turn to ‘steaming’ and ruin the tasty browning you’re trying to achieve.
Here’s how to avoid a greasy mess!
I don’t write about cooking very often here, but I do like to cook and have certainly done a lot of it. I’ve learned that to get a really good tasting hamburger, you need to get a really yummy brown exterior, which means a lot of splattering is going on, and most of it goes out of the pan, leaving a greasy mess in your kitchen.
Unless you have this very clever invention…
A splatter guard!
But not just any old splatter guard.
I’ve had other cheaper splatter screens, and they nominally worked. They didn’t work very well for avoiding the grease splatters and they were bulky for storage.
But then my daughter gave me THIS splatter guard.
After using my new splatter guard it worked so well that I really wanted to share it with you!
Do you notice all the steam escaping? That’s good for tasty fried burgers. The screen totally allows the steam to escape, but really does stop the nearly all the grease from splattering out.
This pan is hot, the burgers have been cooking for a while, the stove is still grease free, and I didn’t need to compromise taste, to save the mess, by covering them with a lid.
Details make a huge difference with splatter screens.
This particular style splatter screen has a few really nice features.
The screening material is sturdy stainless steel, (I’ve had cheap ones that actually rusted, or stretched out when I tried to clean them).
Also, this splatter guard is heavier than the cheapo screens. That weight is important because it helps it stay put on the pan.
The bottom edge of the screen, (the part that you would place on your skillet) is lined with a silicone gasket edging, keeping it very stable on the pan and sealing the gap better between the skillet and the screen.
Another great feature is the foldable handle making storage easy.
So here is what the screen looked like after the 15 or 20 minutes it took to fry these burgers. A few little splatters made it to the edge of the screen, but basically all of them were blocked by the screen.
This thing really works well!
Special thanks to my daughter for this splatter screen for Christmas! It works so much better than the junky one I had before.
If you’re interested in saving yourself from a greasy mess on your stove too, and want the best HERE is the same splatter screen as mine.
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Jan says
Visiting from the Shabby Nest. I seem to get grease all over the place when I’m cooking, one of those would be a help to cutting down the splattered grease all over the place, ugh!
LIz says
Yep! They really truly work!
Sherry says
I need one of those! Great idea. Thank you for linking with Home Sweet Home!
Sherry