I mean, who doesn’t like bacon. For some, it leads to the subculture of home prepared cured and smoked meats. For most, it is a heavenly food for which there is little substitute. The only real problem with bacon, wheather all you need is a pound or a slice, is the mess. The microwave oven cooks bacon but generally at the expense of mouth feel and taste.
Oven cooking bacon solves all that. Once tried, few go back to tradtional pan frying and never reach for the microwave again because fat does not render well under the microwave.
A few essential pieces of kit are necessary. A half sheet sheet pan has so many uses most of us should have at least three or four. The size is matched to normal sizes for foil and parchment paper. A wire rack that fits this pan is also needed. You’ll use these over and over for years so your investment is sound.
Your oven will stay splatter free because liquid fat is never trapped between the pan and the bacon.
Ingredients
Bacon! The more the better.
Procedure:
Preheat the oven to 400F. Place a single layer of foil on the bottom of the sheet pan. Insert the rack. Place the bacon on the rack and place in the oven. After ten minutes, rotate 180 degrees and continue to bake until done to your liking. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
Note - bacon fat does get under the foil - which will lead you to think you don’t need the foil and you’ll try things without it. Don’t even think about it. The fat will over heat and burn on to the pan if you go this route; use the foil and save yourself some grief.
My mom cooks her bacon this way all the time. It is delicious and the bacon fat drips away from the bacon - making it less fattening (is that really possible with bacon?
An added advantage of using the foil is that once the fat cools, it solidifies on the foil making it easier to clean up. You still have some “run-off” that makes it to the cookie sheet, but it is a whole lot easier to clean up with the foil than without it!
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I have been oven cooking my bacon for years and feel this is the best method by far. I still fry it on occasion because I like to cook my eggs in the bacon grease and it makes for a wonderful greasy and tasty mess.
Time to revisit Rob and Tim’s Bacon Explosion!
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I just love the smell of bacon cooking even though i don’t eat it anymore due to the fat content
Still love the smell of it cooking has the taste buds goin every time!
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I love Bacon but found that it was a mess when it was baked. I’m going to use your tin foil trick next time.
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Very useful practical tips.
I like that you preempt the shortcuts people will look for and point out that they won’t help!
Philip Graves
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I bet this would taste good but not sure I would want it every day.
Bob Kaufer
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If you are going to cook bacon this is the only way! unless of course it’s in a cast iron skillet over an open campfire.
Don Shepherd
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I love some bacon. I remember going out to the smokehouse as a kid to get some freash bacon for our next meal.
I have to say, never had it this way. I’ll have to give it a try.
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I like bacon until I learn that pork is too close to human flesh in taste, texture and structure. So …. I am minimizing pork consumption.
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Mmmm… Delicious.
I love the smell of bacon.
I love a bacon sandwich first thing in the morning! Yum!
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Wow, you’ve got salivating. I love good bacon.
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SOunds great. BLT’s are a favorite.
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My family will eat anything with bacon. This sounds simply delicious!
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Yes! No mess! I will have to try oven frying my bacon. Glad to give up the clean up and mess.
Pat
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I agree with Lisa …same here the family just love bacon too!
David Power
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ok, YES, I TOTALLY love bacon.
SO much so that I canNOT beLIEVE I missed you blog post on it. I must have stopped by that day before your post and then blithely saw only the next day’s post the following day.
In fact, this morning my sister and I enjoyed some LOVELY bacon. I love it crispy.
Thank you for explaining the thing about fat rendering being an issue when you cook it in the microwave. THAT explains it!
Best regards,
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