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How-To Cook Bacon In The Oven

Bacon is delicious and a favorite breakfast treat, but it’s a bit time consuming to make if you’re cooking for a crowd (big family meals) and it’s an item that needs to be babysat if prepared in a frying pan or electric griddle (and the grease splatters, oh my!).

If you haven’t tried making it in the oven, give it a shot and see what you think…I say it’s darn near perfect. The oven-method prepares big batches quickly, evenly and it’s less messy too. Here’s how to do it…

Supplies:

1 large shallow pan or cookie sheet with sides 
aluminum
foil wire
rack (optional)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375°.

Line pan or cookie sheet with aluminum foil then fit the wire rack inside pan and on top of foil. If you don’t have a wire rack to fit, you can omit.

Lay bacon in individual strips across the rack, you can fit them tight against each other but try not to have them overlap too much.

Place pan in oven and cook for 20 to 25 minutes or until they’re just as crispy as you like it (about 35 minutes for thick slices).

Remove from oven and lay meat on paper towel lined platter to absorb more grease.

Easy Cleanup:

Either pour off grease in a container to use for later and toss aluminum foil or allow the grease to get cold then remove solidified fat by lifting foil out of pan and throwing in the garbage.

Flavor Twist - Maple Pepper Bacon:

Prepare as above, cook for 7 minutes then brush strips with maple syrup.

Continue baking but flip strips every 5 minutes or so, applying a fresh coat of maple syrup and seasoning with pepper each time.

Cook until caramelized (about 25 minutes).

Allow to cool on racks for 5 minutes before serving.

Taken from www.tipnut.com

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