Frugal Foodie Mama: oven baking bacon

Monday, August 4, 2014

How to Bake Perfectly Crisp Bacon

Have you always wanted to try baking your bacon? Today I am sharing my method & tips for How to Bake Perfectly Crisp Bacon in your oven...



Have you always wanted to try baking your bacon? Today I am sharing my method & tips for How to Bake Perfectly Crisp Bacon in your oven.


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Since it is Bacon Month and all, I only thought that it would be appropriate that I start out the month with my preferred method of cooking bacon.  In fact, every single bacon-licious recipe that you will see posted to the blog this month all started out this way...
With me baking bacon in my oven.






To some, this may be blasphemy.
To others, this may be piquing your curiosity.
And to still others, you all may already know what I am talking about here. ;)






I have my reasons for only baking my bacon-
For starters, it frees up my stove top for things like scrambled eggs and pancake flipping.
It also seems to prevent my house from smelling like bacon all day long.






And finally, no burns from the splattering of bacon grease as it fries just inches away from your hands as you precariously flip each slice of bacon.






And I should also mention super easy clean-up! No scrubbing of a greasy pan or wiping down of a grease splattered stove top, folks. :)






But there are a few points of precaution and hard learned wisdom I need to go over with you all first and foremost before you endeavor to bake your first batch of bacon...