I do bacon in a convection oven with low air flow, at 375 for 15 minutes, it's perfect.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
100%

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Originally posted by woods62:
Bacon is cooked in the oven on a tight crossed cooling rack over a pan to catch the grease. Best way period.

Yep. Way we do it, unless I'm on the flat top griddle outside.

Cleaning the rack and pan is easy enough, I use a size that will do a pound of bacon but will still fit in the dishwasher... after pouring out the drippings and wiping out with a paper towel. When I have enough extra drippings saved I make suet cakes for the birds with it.

Cast iron. I've done the oven method but I just like cooking in cast iron.
Also, the skillet is my late grandmother's so it brings back memories of when I was a kid.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I cook mine in the microwave.

Yep, on a stack of newspaper and paper towels to absorb grease. Easy to get consistent results once you get with the program, good bacon gets good results, bad bacon sucks whatever you do. I say this knowing bad bacon is only so bad.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Cast iron skillet, the only way to fry.

+! BINGO

All the oven, air fryer, etc. crap is inconvenient and messy from my knothole and sacrifices taste that only cast iron prepared bacon has.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Cast iron skillet, the only way to fry.

It's unamerican to cook bacon any other way than this way. If you can't hear it sizzle you're doing it way wrong.

Jim

I cook bacon on the grill. Comes out great with some mesquite smoke. No mess in the house.

Woods62 is close. To achieve perfection it must be done at my house.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Fucking Luddites.

Two pages of "HA! That's not how you cook bacon! This is how you cook bacon!"
I'm trying it in the AM.

I bake it in the oven.

A thread on cooking bacon. Bless your heart.

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Originally posted by cne32507:

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Fucking Luddites.

Two pages of "HA! That's not how you cook bacon! This is how you cook bacon!"
I'm trying it in the AM.

What kind of Sigforumite are you? The proper response is I'm going to set aside the entire week to try every bacon cooking method in this thread.

Moderation is for cowards!

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Originally posted by cparktd:

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
100%

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Originally posted by woods62:
Bacon is cooked in the oven on a tight crossed cooling rack over a pan to catch the grease. Best way period.

Yep. Way we do it, unless I'm on the flat top griddle outside.

Cleaning the rack and pan is easy enough, I use a size that will do a pound of bacon but will still fit in the dishwasher... after pouring out the drippings and wiping out with a paper towel. When I have enough extra drippings saved I make suet cakes for the birds with it.

I'm in the oven on a rack club.

So a question for bacon experts?

How to you cook bacon wrapped items so the bacon is done and the wrapped item is not over cooked?

I just made some bacon-wrapped-jalapeno-shrimp/
The bacon was underdone but the shrimp/jalapeno was fine.

Goal is not to have to pre-cook the bacon.
I baked at 450 it looked good except the bacon so I then for a few minutes switched to convection and it seemed to help.

Such a perplexing problem, eh?

Shrimp (scallops too) get done so fast (e.g. 3 minutes) that it's unreasonable to pair it with something that takes 5x or 6x as long to go from raw to done. I think you're going to have to partially cook the bacon before wrapping the shrimp.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
So a question for bacon experts?

How to you cook bacon wrapped items so the bacon is done and the wrapped item is not over cooked?

Kitchen torches aren't just for creme brulee.


Pre-partial cook, wrap, and then blow torch!

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Originally posted by Ripley:

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I cook mine in the microwave.

Yep, on a stack of newspaper and paper towels to absorb grease. Easy to get consistent results once you get with the program, good bacon gets good results, bad bacon sucks whatever you do. I say this knowing bad bacon is only so bad.

Guys, it's called a Science Oven.

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Originally posted by Blue Dog:
I cook bacon on the grill. Comes out great with some mesquite smoke. No mess in the house.

Yep!!!

I grew up with broiled bacon. Mom kept a baking pan with cooling rack in the broiler all the time when not actually broiling something else. It would just collect the grease as drippings and get emptied from time to time; never washed as far as I remember. Never had better bacon since.

Sun Oven bacon, cooked on a rack, is phenomenal:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAXD7mnJPyM