Category: Daily Living
Someone tell me how to make this...now!
It's awesome! Here's what I do.
Lay the strips on a cookie sheet. Using a pirex dish would probably be safer because of the grease facter but I don't know if that would change anything about how it cooks. Anyway, put the bacon in the oven and set the ovev to 400. Turn it on and cook for about 20 minutes. Yes, let the cooking begin in the cold oven before it's preheated. The method I got this from said to cook for 17 minutes but I found that wasn't really long enough. I get thick sliced bacon though so perhaps that's why. Anyway, good luck! Follow your nose. The most challenging part is not tilting the cookie sheet when taking it out of the oven and spilling grease everywhere. One of these days I'm gunna try it in a glass dish with higher sides.
Plus, this would allow me to put the bacon on one of those racks used for cooling cakes to allow the grease to drain off while it's cooking. When I do that, I'll post an update. Good luck and enjoy!
Buy a oven bacon pan. or a pan with a drainer.
You can also cook it in a non stick pan instead of a cookie sheet.
After it is done get anything you like to use and feels good and scoop it out of the pan. I use a fork. Put it on a plate with some paper towels to drain.
The pan should have sides, that way the grease doesn't go anyplace until you want it to.
The best method I like to use is skip the oven and use the microwave.
You buy a bacon cooker. They have them were the strips hang on sticks that are stuck in the drip pan, or ones where you lay the bacon strips flat over a draining rack sort of.
You set the microwave and cook it a bit. If it isn't done enough for you, cook it a bit more. Soon you know about how much time you like it cook with.
All you need to after it is ready is take the bacon of the sticks or the pan. The grease can simply be poured in to a can or some container you can throw away.
The pans have a spout for pouring the grease out, so it is easy.
Never put grease down the sink. Soon you'll have to unstop it or pay a plumber to do it if you do.
I think the rule for microwave bacon is to cook one minute more than the number of slices you want to cook. 4 slices, 5 mins.
Apologies if this is incorrect; I cook mine in the skillet.
Oohh thx all. I actually have the Perfect Meatloaf Pan...that's what it's called. It has a tray for grease to drip into. Maybe I'll use that! Yeah!
I also like using the skille, but I've use everything, even a camp fire and a stick, so. Lol
The micro Wave is the lest messy.
Ooh, campfire! Mmm! I am impressed, Forereel.
Don't be. Hunger motivates ya. Smile.
I just found out you can buy bacon for the microwave. No special pans or anything because it's meant to be cooked in the microwave. Sorry, I didn't find out the brand name, but I bet a clerk in the store can tell where to find it.
Sounds okay, like turkey bacon, or beef bacon.
NMe, I like the real deal. I like it sliced off the chunk in phat slices, smoked, cured, and the whole thing.
If I'm going to eat bacon, I want bacon, not engineered meat. Smile.
Yep, I've seen that microwave bacon. It's expensive but for a single person might be ok. My family consists of myself and 2 bottomless pits. lol
I tried the oven method today with a Corningware dish. It worked ok but took much longer to finish cooking. I guess the metal in the cookie sheet must heat more quickly or something. Just thought I'd share that since I said I'd try it next time.
I believe that is true. I'd use a non stick metal pan, but deeper than a cookie sheet so you don't have to worry about wasting the grease.
Hey, ya know what I bet would work really great? I'll bet you could use one of those disposable pans, like what ya make thanksgiving dressing in, only smaller. They sell them in packs of 3 for like $2. That'd save a hole bunch of trouble. Once the grease cools enough to solidify, just toss the whole thing. I don't save my grease so I think I'll try this next.
That is an idea to get rid of the grease.
I don't save it either, but don't like mess, so get rid of it in a toss out something.
To get it to pour it has to be warm enough though, so if that is a problem, she'd have a great idea.
I wonder if you can buy these pans not so deep, but deep enough?
I'm going to take a look just for information.
I still like my microwave deal. It's plastic, so has a handle and a spout to pour the grease out.
After I remove the bacon, I dump the grease iin whatever I'vve got handy. If I have nothing handy I use some news paper, enough to hold the grease.
I usually keep something around in case of this kind of thing though. I don't eat bacon, or anything with grease often, but sometimes, so keep a container or something I used. I just wash it and put it up until I need.
I also keep coffee grounds in a container, so if I'm eating bacon, I just pour the grease in there. I don't have to dump that but about once a week, so just leave it. The grease doesn't smell when you add it to the grinds.
Actually guys, the bacon packaged especially for the microwave is regular bacon--good quality--maple wood I think. It's just packaged in such a way that you put the tray that it's packaged in straight into the microwave and it has this special drip tray for the grease, etc. It's not engineered meat, it's what you buy when you buy plain old bacon, but it's packaged differently. I buy it for my family because it takes only a couple minutes to make, and with a small toddler, I always appreciate ways to ensure there's less mess for me to clean up. If you cook it in the microwave according to the instructions, it tastes fabulous. Think restaurant quality bacon.
I buy it at the wholesale store, BJ's.
Coolness.
So I guess you're not going to eat any of that ground beef they just grew in a test tube? Geez, you have no sense of adventure. lmao.
Yes, they do make the throw away pans in different sizes. I think they're aluminum.
I've actually had some of the micro bacon she's talking about and it is good. I'm just cheap. lol They're building a new Sam's Club store near us though so maybe it'll be cheaper there in bulk. I'm all about a quick less messy way of doing something. Wayne's thingy sounds cool too. I think I'm going to look into one of those.
No. No. Nope!
I check the labels, and if the writing on it isn't pig latin, or cow scribble, I pass.
Lamb, duck, quail, and deer,., I want to see it hanging on a rack. I want some woman in deer skins explaining how fresh it is because she just shot it this morning.
I just got myselfa broiler pan to make bacon in the oven. I got turkey bacon and it doesn't come out crispy. i am using the method of starting it in a cold oven and cooking it on 400 for 20 minutes. I think i am going to try 25 minutes next because we want it to be crispy. I got turkey because I don't eat pork much at all but i might have to get pork if it will cook it more crispy...
The broiler pan is a deep pan of about close to 2 inches deep wiht a cookie sheet that sits on the top of it with slots in it. The fat drips threw and collects on the bottom of the pan. I line the pan with aluminum foil so that I can let it cool then toss it. I always line my pans with foil to help clean up. You don't even have to wash the pans half the time because the foil collects all the mess leaving the pan clean. Its nice...
but any tips for making the bacon more crispy?
Yes, buy real bacon. That turkey stuff is not really bacon at all. Buy the kind that is sliced thick with the skin on the side, and some fat for your drip pan, and you've got it. You can even turn it down to 350 and it will crips up nicely.
He's right. The reason turkey bacon doesn't crisp up is because it doesn't have the fat content needed to do so. Get real bacon and it will crisp up perfectly.
I cook mine on the foreman. Much quicker.
I just did a whole pan of it in the oven last night, using the tinm foil so as not to have to clean the pan.
If you do like I did, and have no rack for your pan, then when you remove the bacon, put a couple paper towels on the plate first and let them soak up the grease.
I don't know if I'd like bacon in the oven; would it crisp up? I don't like it if it aint crispy. Lol I do mine in my George Format grill. :)
It will, it just takes a lot longer.
ah I see; thanks :)
It also depends on how you do it in the oven. If you use the broiler, it crisps up faster. The oven keeps more of the flavor of the bacon, but doesn't make it crunchy like the stove does.
I prefer the bacon to still taste like meat, not meat flavored crackers, if that makes sense. So I love doing it in my gas oven.
:) each to their own. Nothing like waking up on the weekends to crispy bacon, eggs and fried mushrooms on toast. :)
I cook mine on my forman grill, but I may have to atempt the broiler pan method just once or the cooling rack idea. i just got a new dishwasher, so what better to try it on than some bacon grease? lol. And fried mushrooms on toast for breakfast? OMG, that sounds awesome!! I've never done that!!
Take Care,
Dawnielle
Don't put that grease in your new washer. You'll stop it up, and trust me, a repair man, it is a bitch to clean. Lol
yes don't do that to your washer. or your sink. ugh...
I lined mine with foil and then tossed the foil. You might not have to clean the pan if you put the foil on right. then no clean up after.
I also use foil to line my pans when cooking things that are greacy and such. I also use paper towels to wash those greacy pans so i am able to throw away the paper towels instead of having to wash greacy dish towels. That can be bad for your washer too. You just get the paper towel a bit wet then a bit of soap on it. and wash your greacy dishes. You might want to use paper towels to wipe off extra greace before washing it but then once you get it off pritty well or all the way, you can go back over it all with a dish cloth if you feel you need to.
You don't want to get that stuff in your pipes, it will clogg them up.
You also are suppose to rence off your dishes before putting them in the dish washer. Your dish washer spray cleans, not scrubs. Some dish washers can handle food bits now but it always helps not to add that stuff in.
Oh dear God, no! Please don't put that bacon grease in the new dishwasher. lol Wayne is right.