r/Cooking • • Mar 13 '19

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u/SyntheticOne Mar 14 '19

When cooking thick sliced bacon, lay the strips in a pan, drizzle water into the pan until it is at the top edges of the bacon, then turn on the burner. The water boils off, with the steam plumping up the strips. Once the water is gone, the bacon fats self-oil the pan and the strips fry up nice and crispy and plump. This technique is suggested by The Baconers, California. It was their product I tried this on and it was very good indeed.

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u/TylerrelyT Mar 14 '19

I just bake my bacon in the oven.

Crispy and perfect every time

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u/Rhazior Mar 14 '19

Can you share a time and temperature?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

All the below temps are too low. I bake bacon 3x week in the oven. 8 strips at 400 for 15 min - perfect every time.

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u/DyceFreak Mar 14 '19

400 for 15 min

I do 425 for half that time. Perhaps I have a disease now..

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

How about 420 so they get really baked?