Everyone welcome back to the kitchen today. We're going to solve a problem the problem of
unevenly cooked
curlicue bacon that ends up burnt or undercooked and
Nobody likes it today. I'm going to share with you how to get perfectly cooked bacon every single time
Let's go, see how this all comes together
Not long ago I had someone asked me
I believe it was when I made the or the deluxe pimento grilled
Pimento cheese sandwiches and we put bacon and tomato on those and someone happened to ask me how I get
Perfectly cooked slices of bacon because hers don't come out like that when she fries them in the skillet
Well, I'm gonna show you today my secret for cooking perfect bacon every time and it doesn't involve a skillet
and it does not involve you standing over your stove cooking four slices of bacon at a time until they're perfectly crispy and then some
of them getting burnt because you had to turn your back and do something else this way your bacon comes out perfect every
Single time and that is - bacon in the oven when I worked in hotel kitchens for many years
This is how they cook bacon for breakfast buffets and large event
and it's the only way they do it because they can cook several pounds of bacon all at one time and they can even do
It in advance and they can put it in the buffet tray and it will warm up and it will be perfectly delicious
So what you want to do is make sure first off that you have good-quality bacon. I get a local brand here in North Carolina
It's called Nice's. It's the only brand of bacon. I will purchase it's delicious
It's local and if you have a local provider
You should definitely try and find the best local bacon that you can it's absolutely worth it the second
Secret besides a good baking sheet is nonstick aluminum foil
Now y'all have heard me say don't like to use aluminum foil that much and that's the truth and I don't like to use it
For long slow cooking processes in the oven where acidic foods are being cooked bacon
However is one exception I never put bacon in the oven
without first putting
aluminum foil down now this definitely work with regular aluminum foil and I've done it that way many times but the nonstick aluminum foil
Really really gets the job done
it helps your bacon nut to stick and cook to the foil and it helps the foil not to rip and
the bacon just glides right off of it and as it shrinks while it cooks it just it just stays right there and it makes
Perfect slices of crispy bacon every single time so I have two half sheet pans here that I have lined
With just one sheet of the nonstick aluminum foil and that's all you need now
this is not to
Prevent you from having to wash the pan because you're going to have to wash the pan
The other thing this does too is if you are a saver of bacon or bacon
Nectar as we like to call it in our house
The the bacon nectar just really pours right off into your jar. Nothing is left behind. It's very nice
so when you go to clean up this piece of foil
I like to just wipe it down with a paper towel
Then crumble it up and throw it away and then you can just wash it very quickly with hot soapy water
This is really simple. Like I said, I learned this a long time ago
The one thing I will say is when you get these slices
You're gonna want to flip them so you can put one down
this way and then you're gonna put one down that way so kind of
Turn them, so they're opposite
sometimes the bacon is very uneven this particular package of bacon is nice and even you just want to do this and
Typically, I will get 16 slices of bacon out of one of these pounds of bacon
So approximately eight slices per tray. I have my oven preheated to
350 degrees and I'm gonna put both of these sheet pans in the oven at the same time on different racks
one's gonna go on the bottom all the way to the left one's gonna go on the top all the way to the right and
That way there will be a better air circulation. There will be more even cooking you're gonna cook these for 20 minutes
halfway through
You're gonna go to your oven and you're gonna put the top tray on the bottom rack and the bottom tray on the top rack
And this is also going to help ensure even cooking
So I'm gonna go ahead and put these trays of bacon in my oven
I'll bring you back and I'll show you what they look like there. You have it our bacon cooked for 10 minutes
and then I
Flipped the pans put the bottom on the top and the top on the bottom and then let it cook for another 10 minutes
When you can start to smell the bacon
you should check the bacon and make sure that your oven is cooking it properly because it may take an extra 10 minutes it may
Take an extra five or six minutes. It may take an extra 15 minutes
It just depends on your bacon. If you're using thick sliced bacon, it may take a little bit longer
So you have to be the expert judge of your own bacon so that it comes out cooked to your preference
Now you can see that my bacon slices are even they're almost all identical
they are nice and curly in some spots and
They're perfectly crispy
they're beautiful and
They're ready for your breakfast. They're ready to go into a sandwich
They're ready to go into your dinner or whatever else you do with that
I like to cook bacon off like this a couple of pounds at a time and then once it's all together cooled you can lay
It down on paper towel roll it up and put it in a plastic bag at that point
You can put it in the freezer or in the refrigerator
And if you put it in the fridge, it's gonna keep for up to a week if you put it in the freezer
It's gonna last up to two months and then you can just pull out slices as you need them
That way you always have cooked bacon available to you
So pre cook it yourself
Buy your bacon when it's on sale
do it in bulk and you're always gonna be happy and you're always gonna have bacon so that is how I cook perfect bacon every
Time using methods that I used working in a hotel kitchen and I know they're gonna help you too
I hope that you give it a try the next time you're gonna cook some bacon and I hope that you love it
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And I hope you love it and until next time I'll see ya
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