cooking bacon in oven

Microwave too.

I make brown sugar bacon that way.

A pack of bacon disappears pretty quickly that way.

Maybe it's my oven, but cooking bacon in the oven leaves a greasy residue in mine. The next time I cook in the oven I get smoke and it affects the flavor of what's being cooked. I'll stick with cooking it in cast iron skillet.

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Annoying thing is cleaning the grate that seperates bacon from drippings, even when sprayed before cooking

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try cooking it on parchment paper

Preheated at 400???? How thick is the bacon?

I put bacon on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Place it in the oven cold and let it preheat to 400. Once it beeps, let it cook for 5 minutes.

Takes 15 minutes total.

Only complaint is that the bacon can be a bit greasy due to sitting in its own grease too long but paper towels take care of it just fine.

Oven cooking is perfect because of its consistency. Once you figure out hot to cook it how you like it, you'll never go back to pan frying. Very little mess (no splattering) and every piece cooked the same.

I don't eat much bacon, anymore, but I cook it for my family once or twice a week, or so.put my bacon flat on a sheet of foil. Last night, I did a "weave" of bacon where I interlaced strips of bacon with half the bacon laid horizontal and the other half going vertical. When I was done, I used a pizza cutter to cut the bacon into squares for BLTs. The kids loved it.