Sizzling chicken, frying bacon, and burbling tomato sauce can wreak havoc on a clean stove, but splatter screens, designed to prevent this mess, don’t work that well. Shaped like small metal tennis rackets with mesh faces, the screens lie flat over the top of a pan while the food cooks, ostensibly to contain splatter. A good model, such as our previous winner, the HIC Stainless Steel Splatter Screen ($12.99), will reduce mess—particularly larger blobs of oil that can be painful if they hit you—but considering that the screen must be porous enough to allow steam to escape safely, quite a bit of oil still gets through.
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