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    Bacon

    How do you cook it? This is stemming from a heated (pun intended) argument about stove-top vs. oven.

    I'm all about oven bacon. It cooks nice and even, and if you use a rack/cookie sheet with aluminum foil clean up is non-existent and you can still save the grease to cook with. Pan cooking is uneven and inferior.

    If you use a microwave, GTFO you're doing it wrong.

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    Bacon

    Pan cooking. Have to be patient with it though. Oven cooking is faster and you can make more at a time--I just don't like the way it comes out as much.
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    I cook mine in the oven. Always preferred Wright bacon.

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    I have never even heard of cooking bacon in the oven. I like the sound of that. I hate the clean up of stove-top cooking and my wife hates the smell (I know, what the hell is wrong with her). How do you cook it in the oven?

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    Re: Bacon

    Quote Originally Posted by marfacowboy View Post
    I cook mine in the oven. Always preferred Wright bacon.
    This x 2.

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    Re: Bacon

    Quote Originally Posted by pbc2003 View Post
    I have never even heard of cooking bacon in the oven. I like the sound of that. I hate the clean up of stove-top cooking and my wife hates the smell (I know, what the hell is wrong with her). How do you cook it in the oven?
    Get a baking sheet (not a cookie sheet that doesn't have sides/walls). Line it with foil, throw a cookie cooling rack on it, and then lay your bacon on top. We cook ours at 350. Bacon comes out perfect.
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    I'm going to say this... mayonnaise.


    ...the baconator just came himself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ArbySooner View Post
    Get a baking sheet (not a cookie sheet that doesn't have sides/walls). Line it with foil, throw a cookie cooling rack on it, and then lay your bacon on top. We cook ours at 350. Bacon comes out perfect.
    I do 400 (not that it matters) and flip the bacon halfway through. Additionally, when it's done cooking you can remove the foil and easily funnel the grease into a pan for cooking or a storage device to save for later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArbySooner View Post
    Get a baking sheet (not a cookie sheet that doesn't have sides/walls). Line it with foil, throw a cookie cooling rack on it, and then lay your bacon on top. We cook ours at 350. Bacon comes out perfect.
    Thanks, I'll give it a try

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    On a cooling rack over a baking sheet, started out in a cold oven that's turned up to 375.

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    Quote Originally Posted by silverwheels View Post
    On a cooling rack over a baking sheet, started out in a cold oven that's turned up to 375.
    Can I just put it in the toaster?

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    Quote Originally Posted by XxSuBLiMexX View Post
    Can I just put it in the toaster?
    Only if you turn it sideways.

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    Anyone tried cooking it in a skillet with water?



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    Quote Originally Posted by ThievingMagpie View Post
    Anyone tried cooking it in a skillet with water?


    Pretty cool, but I like it dry and crumbly.

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    Definitely in the oven. A lot less mess and it come out perfect every time.

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    Tried sprinkling a little brown sugar over it before it goes into the oven?

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    Re: Bacon

    Quote Originally Posted by ThievingMagpie View Post
    Tried sprinkling a little brown sugar over it before it goes into the oven?
    Not a fan.

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    If you see a guy at the store buying a **** ton of bacon and a cookie cooling rack holla at me.
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    That's how most restaurants cook it, in the oven.

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    Siracha bacon, anyone?

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    Re: Bacon

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    Siracha bacon, anyone?
    I saw that Wright Brand sells some Buffalo (Sauce) Bacon.

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    bacon

    I use a stove top griddle, kinda like this. needs two burners going. bacon cooks pretty evenly.

    http://momspotted.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/griddle2.jpg

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    I cook it on my foreman grill.

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    I understand the advantages of oven cooked, but there is something to be said for cooking pork in its own rendered fat. That's why carnitas taste so damned good.
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    Re: Bacon

    I have wanted to do this for awhile. I wouldn't use the same recipe though.


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    Bacon

    If you took a sealable jar and filled it with sugar then stuck a piece of bacon inside the sugar and sealed it would you a) get bacon flavored sugar and B) if so how long would you need to leave the bacon in the sugar filled jar to get the best results?

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    Bacon

    I have always cooked it on the stove top low and slow to a half crispy half chewy texture.

    I'm probably gonna try the oven, because it sounds easier. Can you get chewy/crispy texture that way?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcousticSoup View Post
    I have always cooked it on the stove top low and slow to a half crispy half chewy texture.

    I'm probably gonna try the oven, because it sounds easier. Can you get chewy/crispy texture that way?
    I did it yesterday to test it out. Yes, you can get the same textures. It takes longer though in the oven. There was no noticeable difference in pan frying or the oven technique. The oven takes longer--the stove top is messier.

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    Turkey bacon 4 slices in the microwave at about 3 minutes.

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    Re: Bacon

    I put mine on a grill rack over s baking sheet with side walls for grease drip, bake at 375 for about 22 minutes put it in right when you turn the oven on

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    Bacon

    Quote Originally Posted by 61sooner View Post
    Turkey bacon 4 slices in the microwave at about 3 minutes.
    Turkey bacon doesn't count since its not real bacon anyhow....
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    Bacon

    Quote Originally Posted by soonerprices View Post
    If you took a sealable jar and filled it with sugar then stuck a piece of bacon inside the sugar and sealed it would you a) get bacon flavored sugar and B) if so how long would you need to leave the bacon in the sugar filled jar to get the best results?
    Does nobody know the answer or are you guys just ignoring me? I want some bacon flavored cotton candy dagumit.

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    Re: Bacon

    Quote Originally Posted by soonerprices View Post
    Does nobody know the answer or are you guys just ignoring me? I want some bacon flavored cotton candy dagumit.
    Both?

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    Bacon

    I like it both ways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArbySooner View Post
    Both?
    Ok you **** holes I'll just experiment and report back but no bacon flavor cotton candy for any of you.

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