Category: Daily Living
Normally, I'll take two pieces of bacon, cut them, put them on a microwave-safe plate and stick them in them in for a few minutes. But is there a safe way to cook bacon on the stove? I know there are bacon presses but do they allow me to keep the grease and stuff? I hate dry bacon, which is why I never use a paper towel in the microwave.
With say two pieces of bacon, cut in half - place flat out like in fyring pan. Usually use a non-stick pan. When hear sizzle like sound, start to turn bacon over so each of the two sides gets done-like. I have habit of over cooking bacon and I like mine say, "well-done" and many might say, overcooked. Maybe you would call it dry and if so then I guess I am not being very helpful here {sorry} Have paper plate ready with a bit of paper towel to soak up the extra bacon greese as bacon strips are placed onto the paper towel.
Take cooked bacon strips and place on dish that you are going to place other food items on like say toast, lettuce and tomatoes for to make a sandwich.
May opt to use bacon greese in fry pan like to fry eggs or if not into using this by-product then as it has cooled then place this by-product on paper towels of paper plate and when it like has hardened then can toss this into the garbage can.
Thanks, but I dislike using paper towels, as I've said, because they absorb the grease, which is one of the things I love about bacon. Great idea to use the leftover fat in the pan for eggs though. Must try. My problem is flipping the bacon over so that it stays straight and knowing when to turn it off since I don't like it burned.
I hear you.
Yes, the bacon does like to wrinkle up.
A way to help keep it more flat like is to like
stretch the bacon slices out within the pan
while it is still cool, BEFORE turning the heat on
so it is like also like making them hug tight on the pan
and so for that time before you hear the "sizzle"
the bacon has had an amount of time added to lie flat.
Use a couple of forks to turn it rather than a spat; you'll find it more easily.
I hear of this thing that you get at stores, its flat metal and you place it on top of baken and it cooks both sides at once.
First, I know of the thing Nicky is referring to. There's a store not a block from my house that sells one. Since I don't cook much bacon, I've never bought it, so I can't say how well it works, but I've seen the tool she means.
Also, I am going to move this to the Daily Living board. It seems like more of that kind of question. Also, Eleni, I think you might get some more answers there. From what I can tell, that board is frequented more than this one.
I have a wonderful invention that will allow you, not only to keep the fat from the bacon, but cook it, with it staying relatively flat, and not having to turn it over at all. it is an incredible invention, and you may very well have one already, its called an oven. If you cook bacon on the stove, your only heating one side at a time, which is why you have to turn it. Cook it in the oven, and you hit it with heat from every possible direction, which keeps it from curling so much, and makes it so you don't have to turn it.
If you want it perfectly flat, find something perfectly flat, and put it on top of it. I don't like buying gadgets for one purpose alone. Why waste money on a press that does nothing but cook bacon, and take up space? Just use your oven, and you'll be fine.
If you look on youtube, there is a show called Good eats, which has an episode about bacon, and explains this method.
Enjoy your bacon.
That's an idea!
I'll see how it turns out, just as an experiment. But I don't fry potatoes in the oven cause it removes all the grease etc and I'm assuming it would do the same with the bacon. But maybe not.
Hmmmm, bacon in the oven, not sure how that would turn out.
something I like to do if I find I have say, boiled too many potatoes,like when there is a Family Happening and what to do with the left-overs. Take boiled potatoes and place in covered container in refrigator. Then like say next morning or maybe more so may be near noon-hour of that next day of the night before when had boiled potatoes with the Family... well, *Sighs **Smiles.
o.k. take previously boiled potatoes and dice up and place in pan the bacon greese {or butter,} maybe add some minced up onion, salt and pepper {optional}
Sometimes I add a sprinkling of bacon bits.
Heat throughly
some grated cheddar cheese atop a serving can be nice.
EnJoy!!
Ooh, that sounds absolutely delicious! Must try. Thanks.
bacon in the oven is wonderful. i just hate to heat it up for that one thing. anyway it takes about 15 minutes at 350. if you don't want it dry, then lay it in a regular pan like a 9by 13 pan. if you want it nice and crunchy, put a cooling rack in the pan and lay the strips on it. the grease drips down and you got nce bacon.
mr. foreman's grill is another great way to make the bacon. just heat it up and stick them on the grill thing and slam down the lid. they are nice and flat and delicious. cook from 7 to 10 minutes depending on your desired crispness.
Yes, Turricane, I forgot to mention bacon on the Foreman. That's good stuff.
Lay your strips flat in a cold pan, turn your heat to medium/medium-high, and cover. You can gage the doneness by the frequency between grease popping sounds. More time means more done. :) I'd say to start checking in four minutes or so, but the exact time will depend on a number of factors.
This may take a couple of trials to perfect, but it's a way to cook bacon on the stovetop without turning anything.
A couple asides: To call Good Eats a show worth checking out would be the understatement of the century, and worst case, your smoke alarm will never meet a waving towel it won't like.
I'm definitely trying this one. It makes perfect sense, is quick and easy. I never bother with Foreman grills cause they remove the grease and fat from everything.
interesting comments
I really like number 16, the one about covering the pan
Yeah, that's the one I meant too. Awesome idea.
you can make pancakes the same way.
Opa! Really? I've always wanted to make my own pancakes. I've got one of those omelette pans, the kind that you just close the one half and it flips whatever's inside of it. Would that work? How do I get the pancakes to come out all nice and fluffy? I've got a few recipes but am not sure if it's in the ingredients or in the preparation of them.
Never had anyone mention before now that bacon could be throughly cooked and in the right amount of crunch {or lack there of} AND Not be turned over!! What will they think of next? lol
I agree with poster twenty-one. The pancakes do come out done, but the inconsistency between sides (soft on top, bottom edging into the country of burnt) trumps even my own laziness.
If you're pancaking in a quiet kitchen, you can actually hear when the bubbles start to burst atop the cakes. Wait until the sound approaches something like a simmer (this will be extremely quiet!), then use a forefinger to confirm the cakes are set around the edges. You can now flip without mangling everything. Alternatively, give your cakes a head start on the stovetop, then throw the whole mess into a preheated oven.
as a matter of bumping this topc forward will give comment to say, Between the bacon and the pancakes, when is breakfast or maybe more so a pancake supper? Sounds absolutely delicious..
maybe more idea will be shared and have to agree that I like my pancakes "well-done," in that to have liquid like dough in the middle, well, not so done you know lol
I've also done French Toast on the barbecue grill - this was before I was married. Anyway any of you who are still teens dislike French Toast? My daughter used to not like it and now lately says she does - and she just turned 15.
French Toast is awesome. Must say I've not had BBQ French Toast though. Care to elaborate on the How-To's. Gotts kidds older than 15 myself. French Toast on the BBQ, Does it have BBQ sauce on it?
Nutmeg is one of a flavour choice that to me is welcomed in the making of French Toast.
as for making pancakes in a covered pan, I have never gotten them done to my satisfaction. However, i have a good friend, since deceased, who made them perfectly. the foreman is great for cooking them as well.
Some persons like bacon greese instead of say butter atop their pancakes. I have found that on occassion that honey can be a different taste from the considered norm.
if you like bacon grease as much as I do, make toast then soak up the excess bacon grease with it, either from the pan or off the microwave safe plate.
That, or when making hash browns, put them in the same plate that you used to cook the bacon in and pop them in the microwave. The taste is amazing!