This oven bacon recipe is easier, less messy, little hands on time and tastier than traditional pan frying bacon
- 1 Pound Bacon any flavor, any thickness
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
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Line a rimmed baking tray with foil to make clean up a breeze. See post for helpful ideas if your foil isn’t as wide as your baking tray.
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Lay the bacon slices directly on the foil, they can be slightly overlapping if you need the room, but not too much. You may need to use two rimmed baking trays.
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Place in oven for 20 minutes. You may want to start checking around 15 minutes. Bake until the bacon is the way you like it. For me that’s almost always 20 minutes.
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Carefully remove the tray from the oven and place on a heat resistant surface. It will be full of hot grease so be careful. Then blot excess oil with paper towels using tongs. Place towels on a paper plate and toss in the garbage. So much easier than pouring the excess grease into another container.
You’re done, enjoy!
Helpful Hint: If you are busy doing a hundred different things and can’t keep a close eye on the oven, then reduce the temperature to 375 degrees and start checking around 25 minutes. It will take a little longer than at 400 degrees but won’t be as liable to burn if you are a couple of minutes late taking the bacon out of the oven.
Helpful Hint: You can use a raised to keep the bacon out of the grease, but it's an unnecessary step and my family prefers the bacon laid directly on the foil.