Cooking Bacon

My mother always prepared her bacon by frying it in an iron skillet. Bacon is great cooked that way, but it does leave a lot of grease splatters all over the top of the stove and backsplash.  Not to mention the grease that occasionally pops on your skin while you are standing over the skillet watching it so that it doesn't burn. When microwave ovens came out, I tried zapping the bacon between paper towels. I can't complain about the speed, but there's something lacking in the taste of microwaved bacon. Bacon from a microwave oven can go from undercooked to a very dry and hard overcooked in a matter of seconds. But there is an alternative way to cook bacon that I think is better. My favorite way is to bake it. It is not messy at all and the bacon comes out perfect. Here's how.

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Start by lining a sheet pan with aluminum foil. Spread the bacon slices out on the foil. Make as many or as few slices as you like. Place the pan into a cold oven. Set the oven to 400 degrees or if you are using a convection oven 375 degrees. If you are using thin sliced bacon, it will be done almost by the time the oven gets up to the set temperature, however, thick sliced bacon like I have used here takes longer.

This thick sliced bacon will need to cook for about 25 minutes. When it is done it will look like this.

Drain the bacon on paper towels before serving. Clean up is really easy because the greasy pan is lined in foil! This is a super way to cook bacon. Try it!

This recipe was shared with:

Beyer Beware Hunk of Meat Monday

My mother always prepared her bacon by frying it in an iron skillet. Bacon is great cooked that way, but it does leave a lot of grease splatters all over the top of the stove and backsplash.  Not to mention the grease that occasionally pops on your skin while you are standing over the skillet watching it so that it doesn't burn. When microwave ovens came out, I tried zapping the bacon between paper towels. I can't complain about the speed, but there's something lacking in the taste of microwaved bacon. Bacon from a microwave oven can go from undercooked to a very dry and hard overcooked in a matter of seconds. But there is an alternative way to cook bacon that I think is better. My favorite way is to bake it. It is not messy at all and the bacon comes out perfect. Here's how.

Print Recipe

Start by lining a sheet pan with aluminum foil. Spread the bacon slices out on the foil. Make as many or as few slices as you like. Place the pan into a cold oven. Set the oven to 400 degrees or if you are using a convection oven 375 degrees. If you are using thin sliced bacon, it will be done almost by the time the oven gets up to the set temperature, however, thick sliced bacon like I have used here takes longer.

This thick sliced bacon will need to cook for about 25 minutes. When it is done it will look like this.

Drain the bacon on paper towels before serving. Clean up is really easy because the greasy pan is lined in foil! This is a super way to cook bacon. Try it!

This recipe was shared with:

Beyer Beware Hunk of Meat Monday