How Do you Like Your Bacon? Crispy? Chewy? A Bit of both? This method covers them all! You new way to perfect bacon! As always, we hope you enjoy this video, Cheers!
Awesome video. Thanks for showing us how to do this. We are trying to eat at home now, because it is TOO EXPENSIVE to eat out anymore. We're not gonna pay $20+ / $25+ per person just to have a sit-down meal at a burger joint. Honestly, we don't eat anything fancy -- that's just fast food now, so cooking at home is 5 times (or more) cheaper.
If my bacon is crunchy, it's overcooked. Love my bacon chewy. I've never cooked bacon in the oven. I cook it LOW and SLOW in a fry pan. And I save the rendered fat for cooking other things!
You can try it I the oven as directed and just take it out for your level of 'chewiness' 😄 and the fat is nice & clean for other uses...Like my home fries!!!
Imho, that whole food pyramid thing is upside down. I eat bacon every single day. Meat, bacon, butter, eggs = healthiest person I know staying away from all the ultra processed chemicals & stuff. Exactly how I make my bacon too... suuuuper crispy, yum! ENJOY! :)
Actually, bacon IS a very healthy food, as long as you avoid the sugary (maple, e.g.) varieties. Hypotheses about fat, salt, and nitrates have been shot down by recent, honest research. I enjoy it without worry -- and probably not as often as I should.
I need to try this next time I buy bacon. If I do bacon for bacon and eggs, I tend to use the skillet so I can fry the eggs in the rendered bacon fat but I'd definitely do bacon this way if I want to fry up a whole pack of bacon for snacking on throughout the day. 😀
Two things: First, cold oven set to 390°. It takes a few minutes more, but you don't have that slightly overcooked bacon smell in the house for hours. Second, use heavy duty aluminum foil instead of parchment. Leave the foil sides raised up to reduce spatter in the oven, and you can then save the grease for other things. It's best to take the bacon out when you think it's just slightly underdone if you're going to freeze. That way the reheating will finish the cooking.
UPDATE: I just did THICK sIiced bacon, eight wide pieces on a sheet pan. I used parchment paper. Put it in a coId oven and put it on 400 degrees, it took about 35 minutes to get crispy. Turned it haIfway through. The bacon came out fIat and nice. I didn't think I couId save by IoveIy bacon grease when using parchment but it gave me very cIean grease that didn't need to be strained. The bacon didn't stick to the PP.
@OldSchoolCooks of course....155 yo heirloom from Sicily... my mom has grown for 60 years...so tasty we used to just have them plain with a little salt and pepper
By the way, when you get around to making a grilled cheese (with 2 to 3 types of cheese) with lunch meat added, make sure to pan sear the meat. I usually do salami. Keep the recipes coming my friend....I need them since I can't enjoy food for a bit longer!
I have tried parchment paper, I prefer aluminum foil. I put a little water in the pan to slow things down. Apparently there are several stages to bacon cooking and to extend the sub 230 degree phase make better tasting bacon. All that said, I have made bacon in the microwave, frying pan, and air fryer and all methods work.
I think bacon is one of the healthiest foods you can eat! Low carb, high fat, medium protein. What is unhealthy about it? The Cholesterol? We already know the Cholesterol myth has been debunked, right? The truth is out there.
We don't use parchment paper. We just put it on the pan and you have to save the grease in a can in the corner for your vegetables, rice, or whatever else you're cooking. Healthy, no. Tasty, always.
The best way to cook bacon is grill it outdoors on a gas grill like a steak…..no pan, placed directly on the grate. No mess inside on the stove or oven. No after smell in the house.
I once got a pack of bacon that was SO THINLY SLICED that one of those slices you have there would have made three of mine. Paper thin. I hate to admit that I was so angry trying to get it open that I just shredded it apart and I think even tossed it away, though I think I may have saved it to put into a big pot of green beans. (This was back before the bidenflation hell we're suffering with now).
I disagree, you get better bacon on a super hot cast iron skillet, it sears the bacon and gives it a better taste, your bacon did look nice though and there wasn’t a lot of mess
It also takes a lot longer if you're frying up a large batch. This is an alternative. Because some of us like having more than one way to do something.
You say you are making bacon, but you start off with sliced bacon????? To make bacon you start off with pork and the salts used to turn it ionto bacon. You are only COOKING bacon, not making it!!!!
We love bacon too. In moderation of course. Do you put the bacon in the oven while it is preheating? Does it pop grease all over the oven? And one more question- was that a bird singing in the background?
Everything in moderation! Yes, I don't turn the oven on until the bacon is in. The splatter is minimal. Rocky is an African cape parrot. You can see him in my egg video. He'll make more appearances too!