SAN ANTONIO – For those of us who indulge, bacon is magical.
It can be served crispy, chewy, chopped on salads and in eggs, with breakfast, on sandwiches, in cookies... The possibilities are endless.
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But bacon can also be a pain to babysit in a pan, while grease pops up all over your stovetop (and that nice shirt you forgot to change out of) and burns your arms and hands.
The solution: Grab a cookie sheet or a baking pan and bake that bacon in the oven. Here's how to do it.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. (I like to line it with foil and then parchment paper, mainly because I don't want to have to deal with any excess grease going down the drain -- grease monsters, etc.)
Place the individual strips of bacon on the pan. You could use a rack on top of the pan, but I like the bacon a bit more crispy than chewy, so I like for it to cook in its own grease for a while.
Place the pan in the oven and preheat to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. The bacon will cook while the oven is preheating. Once the oven is up to the desired temperature, give the bacon a few more minutes, depending on how thick it is and how crispy or chewy you like it. Then pull the pan out of the oven and let the bacon cool.
Clean stovetop, no bacon burns, delicious results. Everybody wins.