If you live in the US - you know that 99% of bacon dishes are made of some type of plastic. Our old bacon tray showed substantial melting due to the use of the repeated microwave use. It dawned on me one day that this means we are literally eating some of the material as it melts into our bacon. So - I began searching for a glass bacon dish - something that could not melt. My search for a glass bacon tray turned out fruitless - but I found this little pottery dish on Amazon - so I thought to myself - "hey - this could work!" So I ordered it! I cannot begin to tell you how AWESOME this tray is! It is so solid (and really pretty) that I am considering buying other pieces for the oven [and that says a lot as I never have considered using a pottery dish before]. The time to clean my old tray after using it for bacon was laborious...scrubbing and scrubbing to get out the baked on bacon remnants and I always dreaded it. Not this dish...it literally almost rinses off by itself (ps - let is cool completely before attempting to clean)! I could not believe my eyes. The only not so great thing about it is the size as only 4 pieces can fit on it but honestly - it was not a big deal to cook 4 pieces and then start with another 4 when the first batch was done. I really do wish the same company would make a larger tray - I would buy it in a heartbeat! But for now, I will put up with the small size because of the positives I mentioned. I might end by saying that the bacon turns out PERFECT in this tray - The pottery really doesn't even get that hot (not a scorching hot as the plastic one anyway) and it has nice little 'handles' to use (not sure of the right word here) which really are not that hot. I regret not knowing about this bacon tray long ago - I could have saved myself years of misery trying to clean it up. Not to mention what I probably was ingesting.