How to Make Oven-Baked Bacon

Making bacon in the oven is a mess-free and simple way to cook bacon. Make delicious and crispy bacon with this simple oven-baked method.

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Oven Cooked Bacon

Making bacon in the oven is perfect for Saturday morning’s big family breakfast. If you haven’t tried this before, it might change your Saturday mornings forever – in a good way. This is the perfect side to Copy-Cat Cracker Barrel Pancakes, Ham Puffs with Mushroom Gravy, and this Cheesy Western Skillet Casserole

Ever wonder how restaurants get such crisp, flat, perfect-looking bacon? Are you tired of splattered bacon grease all over the stovetop, countertops, utensils, and you? Well, you’re in luck. I have a great tip to make cooking bacon super easy. You won’t have to shield the kids from the flying grease anymore. I’ll show you how to bake bacon in the oven and make your mornings much easier.

What You’ll Love About this Recipe

  • This recipe will free up room on top of the stove so you can focus on something else
  • This recipe is simple to make. Just pop it in the oven and bake
  • You can take all of that bacon grease that bakes off of the bacon and pour it into a jar for later

Ingredients

bacon on sheet pan raw

Types of Bacon

  • Turkey Bacon – This bacon requires less time to cook, so keep an eye on it
  • Thick-Cut Bacon – This type of bacon might take a bit longer to cook, and you might have to flip it toward the end of the cooking process.
  • Regular bacon – this bacon can be original or flavored

How to Cook Bacon in the Oven

  1. Just line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper. This makes cleanup super easy.
  2. Place your bacon side by side on the baking sheet.
  3. Set it on the center rack of a cold oven.
  4. Set the temp to 400 degrees. Let the bacon cook for about 15 minutes.
  5. The bacon might appear that is not crispy enough. It will turn crispy as it dries.
  6. Set your bacon slices on some paper towels to absorb the grease.

Expert Tips

Using parchment paper helps avoid burning the bacon. Bacon can go from almost done to burnt in a matter of seconds. Parchment paper gives you a little bit of a buffer to help prevent burning for a little longer.

Do not overlap bacon. Lay bacon side by side

Preheat your oven before baking the bacon

How long to Cook Bacon in the Oven

Regular bacon will take around 15 minutes. Check on it at about 12 minutes and keep an eye on it

Turkey bacon will take less than 15 minutes. Look in on it after about 11 minutes and keep an eye on it

Thick-cut bacon will take a bit longer. Look at the bacon after 15 minutes and keep an eye on it, checking in every few minutes. No longer than 20 minutes

Bacon will continue to cook a little bit after you pull it off of the sheet pan.

Save the Bacon Grease

Use bacon grease to cook eggs

Cook vegetables in bacon grease

Pour it into your potato salad base

Fry a burger in it

Make gravy

Storage

Store cooked bacon for 3-4 days. Freeze bacon for a couple of months

Serving Size

One sheet pan can probably fit around 12 slices of bacon

Use separate sheet pans for more

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    oven baked bacon

    How to Make Oven-Baked Bacon

    Easy to make oven baked bacon for a mess free breakfast
    5 from 1 vote
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    Course: Breakfast
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes
    Servings: 6
    Calories: 315cal
    Author: Melissa Haines
    Cost: $10

    Equipment

    • Baking Sheet
    • parchment paper

    Ingredients

    • 1 lb. bacon

    Instructions

    • Just line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper. This makes cleanup super easy.
    • Place your bacon side by side on the baking sheet.
    • Set it on the center rack of a cold oven
    • Set the temp to 400 degrees.
    • Let the bacon cook for about 15 minutes.
    • The bacon might appear that is not crispy enough. It will turn crispy as it dries.
    • Set your bacon slices on some paper towels to absorb the grease.

    Notes

    How long to Cook Bacon 
    Regular bacon will take around 15 minutes. Check on it at about 12 minutes and keep an eye on it
    Turkey bacon will take less than 15 minutes. Look in on it after about 11 minutes and keep an eye on it
    Thick-cut bacon will take a bit longer. Look at the bacon after 15 minutes and keep an eye on it, checking in every few minutes. No longer than 20 minutes
    Bacon will continue to cook a little bit after you pull it off of the sheet pan.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 315cal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 50mg | Sodium: 500mg | Potassium: 150mg | Vitamin A: 28IU | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.3mg

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