Mid-Week Musings: Bacon! Which Method is Best?
I love bacon. I am sure you do too. I mean, who doesn't love bacon!?!
My wife and I recently had a debate about the best way to cook bacon. I am a traditionalist, and have always pan fried my bacon. My wife has been using the oven lately with some tinfoil on a cooking sheet, saying it is less messy and cleanup is simpler. Honestly, both methods taste near the same to me.
My pan frying method produces lots of grease spatters, which are a pain to clean, but that is part of the fun of cooking bacon right? The bacon splatter burns?
Of course, I know people who microwave their bacon and some who deep fry their bacon. There are probably other methods as well.
**So I ask you: Which method of cooking bacon is the best?? **
I will give minimum 2% upvote (worth $0.28 at moment) for all relevant responses!
Brian
Oven, hands down!
I love bacon just as well!
Usually me and my husband buy thick cut applewood-smoked bacon and fry it in a large cast iron pan, it's almost a ritual haha.
The grease splatters are bad and I hate them so I think next time I cook bacon I'll try your wife's way. The less mess the better :).
Hello! I'll tell you my 3 ways to cook it:
Good luck
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with crinkled aluminum, lay the strips of bacon over that and cook for about 15-20 minutes. This makes clean up easy, and by crinkling the foil you allow the grease to pool away from the bacon!
I believe cooking it in the pan is the best because you can take pieces out that are done. When I try it in the oven, it seems to be a mix of different stages.
I like my bacon perfectly cooked where it's not too crispy but not too soggy.
I do think that if you have company and need to cook a lot of bacon that the oven wins.
I love made in carbon grill, but in case you could not do it would use your wife's method is more efficient 🥓🥓🥓😂😂😂
The easiest, least greasy way to cook it is to put it on a plate and put a paper towel over the top, then microwave on high for around five minutes. It gets a decent amount of crisp going on from the grease that collects in the bottom of the plate. That grease is then absorbed by the paper towel. If there is too much grease left, you can press another paper towel down on the top and chuck it in the compost. This is the fastest and easiest way to delicious bacon.
Classically It’s a fry in a pan job but cooking under the grill is healthier, either way start from cold (ie put the bacon in a cold pan or under a cold grill) as it gets hotter more fat will render out and be better for you!
So I like soft bacon but don't make it anymore because of nitrates. But, I'm still in the game. I made some bacon Chucks lol.
I see you live in California, like me. I can find nitrate free bacon at the grocery store - have you looked for it?
I think it depends on how you need the bacon. If I'm going to spice up the hamburger meat, I bake the bacon until it's browned to use its grase in the meat. And then, I cut it into little pieces and include it. Talking abaut meat, I invite you to see my Chilis with cheese and nachos recipe.