How To Cook Bacon In The Oven
Bacon in the Oven: Perfectly crispy and without all the splatter, oven baked bacon is the easiest and cleanest way to prepare bacon!
Bacon in the Oven
I’ve got a quick trick to share with you today, How to Cook Bacon in the Oven.
Bacon is nearly my favorite thing in the whole wide world. On a scale of importance, it pretty much goes God, Family, then Bacon.
Therefore, this girl knows her bacon and how to cook it to perfection.
So instead of cleaning up skillets and grease splatter all over the counter and stovetop, or worrying about grease burns, why not put your bacon in the oven?
Five Minute Fix
This isn’t quite a Five Minute Fix recipe, because it does take longer than that to cook in the oven. But it doesn’t take but a minute to get the bacon in the oven, so that should count for something.
How To Cook Bacon In The Oven
The only thing you’ll need for this recipe is your oven, a rimmed baking sheet, some foil, and bacon! This is seriously a ridiculously easy recipe.
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Then wrap a rimmed baking sheet with foil. (The foil is not necessary, but it does help with clean up.)
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Lay the bacon on the sheet in a single layer. That’s it. You don’t even need to flip it.
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Bake for 15-25 minutes (depending on thickness of the bacon) until it’s red and crisp, but not brown.
Extra Crispy Bacon
Some readers have commented that they want to know how to make your bacon extra crispy. I persoanlly like mine a little bendy, but to each his own.
Simply put a metal cooling rack inside the baking sheet and then follow the recipe as usual.
This helpful tip allows the bacon to be lifted above the baking sheet, letting the strips cook from all sides, so they get crispy quick. The fat then drips down and collects below.
Leftover Bacon
You now have delicious, salty, chewy yet crispy bacon. Use it however you’d like… In salads, sandwiches or by itself.
And if you have leftovers, don’t worry about it! Oven baked bacon can be stored in a ziploc bag in the refrigorator for up to a week. Which also makes it a great make ahead food!
To reheat, add it to a hot pan to crisp up or loosely wrap it in a paper towel and microwave for a couple of seconds.
See The Recipe Card Below For How To Make Bacon In The Oven. Enjoy!
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How to Cook Bacon in the Oven
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Then wrap a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
- Lay the bacon on the sheet in a single layer.
- Bake for 15-25 minutes, depending on thickness, until red and crisp, but not brown.
It was delish, and amazing. I love bacon. Yum & Yum
I always cook my bacon this way however I have found that parchment paper works better than aluminum foil. When I don’t have parchment I use foil but try parchment paper, the bacon is crispy but not as greasy.
Love the idea of bacon this way… I am going to try tomorrow. Thanks Sommer and have a happy Labor Day weekend.
This is my new favorite cooking tip – cooking bacon in the oven! I freeze the bacon, pull out one strip each morning and heat it in my toaster oven. This way it is hot and crispy in minutes. I cook several packages of bacon at a time so I have lots of bacon in my freezer for breakfast, for salads, for potato soup, etc.
Love oven bacon!! But to make the experience even better, take 4 pieces of aluminum, and roll them together into a long piece. Do this 2 more times, and put them in your pan under your aluminum to make grooves for the grease to lay in. Less grease to deal with.
It was delish, and amazing. Used convection bake for 17 minutes. Yum & Yum
I was “forced” to do KP duty while I was in basic training, US Army. Bacon was cooked as described above. I have been cooking bacon like this ever since. Two things the Army taught me. How to cook Bacon & make my bed. LOL
That is how my Granny cooked bacon, also, because we had a large family. Great tips.?
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