How to Make Oven-Baked Bacon
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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.
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
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
- 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.
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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Recipe
How to Make Oven-Baked Bacon
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.
