Hi, it’s Margot, aka The Damsel in Dis Dress from The Old School.
Here I am hanging out with my two favorite people. (my grandsons) Life is good!
I’m back with another old school trick. This one’s one of my favorites!
Everyone knows bacon makes things all better again. There are tee shirts to prove this, including one featuring a piece of bacon with the words “I love you too much to let you live.” Or “Bacon = Meat Candy.” There are ties, shoes, postage stamps, and even skateboards featuring bacon.
There is also the Damsel’s Bacon Corollary, which reads: “The amount of bacon cooked will never exceed the amount eventually eaten.“
The Damsel has cooked a lot of bacon in her life, and has also eaten it in restaurants. She has looked with great longing at restaurant bacon and wished fervently to know how they get it so nicely flat and evenly cooked. She’s fooled around with bacon presses and extra-thick cuts and precooked packages, with mixed results.
Recently she heard about BAKING bacon instead of frying it on the stove. The Damsel was skeptical. It can’t really be that easy, can it? Or wouldn’t everyone be doing it?
She tried it. They were right. This is a seriously good way to make bacon.
Lay the bacon on a cookie sheet. You can line it with foil first if you like. (In this picture the Damsel is cooking the second batch of bacon on the same foil, hence the strange foil appearance)
Turn the oven on to 400F degrees and put the pan in the oven. Don’t preheat! Put them in the cold oven, even though it seems terribly, horribly wrong.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, depending on how crispy you like your bacon. The Damsel feels wiggily bacon should be banned from the kingdom. This is her wish.
Transfer to a paper-towel lined plate for immediate consumption and happiness. Look! It’s flat! It’s crispy! nom nom nom.
-Margot
Everything’s better with BACON!!
I love this method. I even put the bacon on a cooling rack on top of the cookie sheet to bake so the grease drips down.
If only I’d had these instructions a week ago. I’d heard of this, but had no instructions. Now, I’ll have to buy some bacon to test it out! 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
I cook my bacon in the microwave between paper towels, it absorbs the fat and cooks them nice and flat also. This is great for the summer because you don’t have to use the oven which heats up my house a lot. I usually cook between 6-8 pieces at a time and for about 5-6 minutes also depending on how crispy you like your bacon. You may even be one of the lucky ones who has a bacon cooking timer pre-set into your microwave-glorious! perfect for a quick BLT… YUM
I actually just tried this and it turned out great…pan fried can’t be beat, but this was still yummy and a million times easier!
Thanks!
Haha! Talk about coincidence… I made breakfast for some extended family this morning and when my onery Brother-in-law saw the way I was cooking my bacon (I have been baking it for years) he scoffed and refused to eat it, so I also pan fried some and put a piece of both on his plate… He couldn’t tell the difference! My favorite part of doing it this way? EASY cleanup! No splatters, no gross greasy pan to scrub, just let the grease cool on the foil and then pull the foil off the cookie sheet and dump it in the trash! Voila… the cookie sheet should be clean enough to put away! 😉
I keep hearing about this but haven’t tried it yet… I agree though, wiggly bacon most definitely should be banned! 🙂
using this this morning! thanks!