How I Do Bacon

As you can see I love bacon, I don’t eat it every week but when I do I enjoy it. When cooking bacon most people fry it in a pan, myself I cook it in the oven, it’s less messy and the fat from baking is cleaner and I can use to make another dish, giving a rich bacon flavor without the black bits from frying.

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Ingredients

1 Lb. Bacon

1 ½ Tsp. Fresh ground black pepper

2 Tsp. Brown sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Line a baking sheet with foil and place a baking rack on tray, spray with cookng oil. Arrange bacon on rack and sprinkle with pepper and sugar. Roast until bacon  begins to brown about 15 minutes. Remove rack from oven and place bacon on a plate lined with paper towels or coffee liners (see note) Drain oil into a bowl.

Repeat this process until all bacon is baked. When bacon has cooled wrap in plastic wrap or zip-lok bag. Refrigerate and microwave in small batches as needed.

Note: Using coffee filters is much more effective than paper towels; they are highly absorbent and most often less expensive than paper towels. I use them when cooking fried meats or a sauce that has excessive oil, just drop a filter in the sauce and let it soak up the excess.