re: How do you cook bacon

I have my wife stretch it out in one of those plastic racks and microwave the piss out of it.

No joke, it turns out great every time.

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Bacon is one of my favorite kitchen smells

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Looks like I shite the bed here by claiming that it stinks when cooked. A little bit when you're rendering fat...great. Cooking a whole pound of the stuff...I'd rather do it outside.

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I love when the house smells like dark roux, too.

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We agree on this for sure.

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I always cook my bacon in a cast iron skillet because I always cook eggs

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one of my favs way to eat an egg, those crunchy little burnt up edges

We microwave it on a plate that has ridges that makes for easy pouring of the bacon grease into a ramekin that I keep beside the stove for adding to, well, just about everything. We bought a 10-lb package from Sam's for $19.99 awhile ago, and while the bacon tasted fine, the rendered fat never solidified in my ramekins. Not sure what chemicals cause that but I haven't bought the stuff since.

They make this stuff just down the road from us and it is the best bacon you can buy around here:

Burgers Smokehouse Bacon

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I prefer a thick slice and that one is solid.

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The thick bacon is 10x easier to handle. The thin stuff twists around, stretches, and is harder to peel apart. Not to ention that you can get a crispy outside and chewy inside.

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Cooking a whole pound of the stuff...I'd rather do it outside.

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I can understand that when cooking a lot just to save on that much splatter regardless of where you're cooking it inside.

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Looks like I shite the bed here by claiming that it stinks when cooked. A little bit when you're rendering fat...

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Yeah, I'm afraid so.

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Usually on a cookie sheet with foil starting in a cold oven. Other times in a skillet.

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That's how I always cook it. My wife will cook 2-3 strips in a pan, and then cook her eggs in the grease. But when we're all having breakfast on the weekends, I cook about 8 slices in the oven. Foil lined pan, set it to 425 and turn it on. Takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes depending on thickness of the bacon. Gives me time to make a pot of coffee, sit out a few eggs, grate some cheese, and maybe mix up some pancakes for the wife to cook. Spoon out a few tablespoons of the hot grease in the pan to cook the eggs in.

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When you fry bacon on a stove top, the smell stays in your kitchen all day. And not the full-bodied wonderful smell of bacon, just the fried, less-savory notes

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This. I don't like the lingering smell. The cooking smell is great. A strong pot of coffee and bacon frying is like how I imagine Heaven smells like. But your nose gets used to it. You'll be sitting around relaxing after gorging on breakfast, and walk outside to do something. Come back in and it is like walking into a dank Waffle House. And this could be 3, 6, 10 hours later.

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Yeah, I'm afraid so.

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I do my best. I am always a source of embarrassment for my kids.

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But that is neither hear, their or yonder.

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here, there

(but hey, you got "yonder" right )