If your operating culinary thesis is “everything’s better with bacon,” you might find it desirable to eliminate dishware and just eat out of a bowl made of bacon. There’s a tool for that.

The Perfect Bacon Bowl comprises two hard plastic molds with grease-catching channels. You drape two half-pieces of bacon over the mold and wrap another piece around it. It all goes into the microwave or oven, and out comes a bacon bowl, which you can fill with scrambled eggs, a salad, anything, really, even an ice cream sundae.

Cost: I got mine for $5.49 at a Longs Drugs store. It’s available for varying prices up to $10 from many online sources and from other stores that have As Seen On TV sections. On amazon.com it’s $3.99 as an add-on item.

Does it work? Kinda sorta. My results were better in the microwave, which produced a sturdy bowl in just minutes. It traveled well but was a little chewy. You can get a crisper bowl out of the oven, but that takes 30 minutes and it can be hard to pry the bowl off the mold unless you grease it really, really well — and that’s just more fat added to an already fatty product. Plus, there’s a lot of splatter, which is easier to clean up in a microwave (and can be controlled by draping it with a paper towel, not possible in the oven).

Is it worth it? Kinda sorta. If you can get it cheap, it’s a nice novelty. The molds are small enough to store if you don’t use them often. But you only get two, so producing bowls for a party or even a family of four would be a trial. You’d either have to buy several sets or keep reusing your two molds. And note that you can microwave only one at a time.