Palms-free Methodology for Cooking Bacon

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Methods to cook dinner bacon utterly hands-free together with your selection of tender or crisp texture with out standing over a sizzling range or grill.

bacon on stainless pan cooked in the oven without flipping strips

There is no such thing as a getting round it … cooking the overwhelming majority of meals your self requires creativity within the scheduling division from the time required to ingredient store, meals prep, cooking, and eventually…clean-up!

Time is…definitely…the largest problem to beat once you ditch takeout and processed meals opting as an alternative to cook dinner your meals from scratch with entire meals components.

In consequence, after I come throughout a method that saves a couple of minutes of standing over the range so you are able to do one thing else within the meantime, I share it in case it’s one thing that might actually provide help to too.

Whereas I usually pan-fry sugar-free bacon on the stovetop if I solely want just a few strips, my methodology goes hands-free if I plan to cook dinner a pound or extra at one time.

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Why To not use the Oven Broiler

My earlier try to cook dinner a whole bundle of bacon at one time with out frequent flipping of the rashers was through the use of the oven broiler.

This labored okay, however I nonetheless needed to take away the bacon from the oven and flip it no less than as soon as to maintain the aspect uncovered to the broiler from burning.

It additionally required fixed monitoring, as a result of the bacon curled up on the ends and burned fairly simply in case you left it within the oven for less than a minute or two too lengthy.

One other challenge with broiling bacon….the nutrient-dense bacon fats splatters everywhere in the oven.

This leaves much less so that you can use in different dishes resembling this potato and bacon soup.

The mess additionally will increase the wanted frequency of oven cleansing.

Greatest Oven Setting for Cooking Bacon

My husband truly stumbled throughout the very best methodology for cooking bacon hands-free within the oven.

Use the pizza setting!

Solely a man would determine such a factor out, am I proper? 😂

In case you have an oven that’s fairly new (ours is about 6 years previous), you need to have a setting for “pizza”.

This setting is just like the “toast” perform in a countertop convection oven, which I truly use to “toast fish” for good outcomes each time!

The pizza mode in a normal oven heats up each the highest and backside components on the identical time, however not as sizzling because the broiler.

Thus, in case you put a pan of raw bacon within the oven that’s preheated to the “pizza” setting, it cooks all the lot in a couple of minutes to both a young or crispy texture, relying on your loved ones’s desire.

Give it a attempt the following time you cook dinner bacon and let me know the way it works for you!

bacon strips in a pan for hands-free cooking

Methods to Prepare dinner Bacon Palms-free

Methods to cook dinner bacon hands-free together with your selection of tender or crisp texture with out standing over a sizzling range or grill.

Elements

3/4 – 1
pound
bacon
ideally pastured

Directions

Preheat oven on “pizza” mode.
Prepare bacon strips on a big chrome steel pan.
When the oven is sizzling, place the pan on the highest rack barely above the center of the oven.
Set timer for 12 minutes.
When the timer goes off, take away pan from oven. It ought to be completely cooked to a young texture.
If you want for crispy bacon, when the timer goes off, go away the pan within the oven however flip off the warmth. Let the bacon slowly crisp up for the following 10 minutes earlier than eradicating the pan from the oven.