/ck/ - Food & Cooking

wire rack in the oven until it looks done
not sure why you'd do it any other way

In a pan, flip it a few times so it doesn't burn, remove when crispy. Not sure why you'd do it any other way unless you're cooking like 20 pounds in which case it makes more sense to put it on a sheet tray in the oven, which both takes longer and is more inconsistent.

I fry it on my white hot boipussy

>>18253676
the american way

start in a cold cast iron pan with oil and cook over low heat

that way more fat renders out and it doesn't burn

People often over-crisp/burn and under-render bacon. It should be cooked slowly.

>>18253686
>is more inconsistent.
I actually have the opposite experience, I've recently switched to cooking it in the oven, and it's perfect everytime.

Also the bacon fat is one of the main reasons to cook bacon. If you're not saving/using it then you fucked up.

start in cold cast iron, then low and slow. takes a while but im rewarded with bacon that shatters like glass

If it’s thick as it should be, in the oven

>>18253736
>>18253698
this

>>18253705
can you actually microwave bacon? (asking for a friend)

>>18253744
yes

>>18253686
>oven is more inconsistent
lolwut? It’s supposed to be the other way around

>>18253776
If you put a full sheet of bacon into your oven and it all comes out perfect congratulations. You have a really good oven. Usually there's going to be hot spots and you'll have to rotate the pan and pull some pieces earlier than others. Yes, if you cook it in a pan you still have to watch it and turn the slices, but it takes half the time and you have a lot more control. That anon also suggested putting the bacon on a wire rack, which means it wont get fried in its own fat, which is kind of the entire point (and also will make it cook more evenly). Restaurants use ovens to cook bacon because they do a shit ton at a time. I can only imagine the idea of using the oven at home to cook bacon must have come from some youtuber who just had to do it differently as clickbait.

>>18253705
>americans

>>18253676
It’s best under the grill until it becomes crispy. Frying it ruins it. Very few people know this

I'm leaning more and more away from cooking bacon on my carbon steel and more into just nuking it in one of these. It saves the grease if you like to keep it like I do too and doesn't smoke up the house.

>>18253776
The wire rack with a sheet tray under it in the oven method is becoming the go to YouTuber consistent "perfect bacon" meme and I honestly don't think they're wrong. It's just too much of a hassle when I'm making fucking breakfast.

bacon shouldn't be crispy

>>18253816
Agreed. It should be chewy with a mild crunch.

>>18253676
I buy cured bacon and eat it as is.

>>18253816
>>18253819
this

>>18253676
Skillet then I pour the bacon grease into a grease keeper / catcher then put it into my refrigerator. I like the handy dandy strainer to keep odd bits out of the grease which I use later for things like sandwiches and eggs and other assorted things like chicken noodle soup and I'm only slightly overweight, believe me! I have to taste my own stuff!

>>18253863
I've done it in a microwave too, but that's a lot of a waste of not only bacon grease but also paper towels.

>>18253865
I'm a little bit of a tree hugger and hate the paper towel waste when it comes to pans that need constant wiping and cleaning. Are there any alternatives? Just a rag you wash often or something? I also recycle my brass when I go shooting so that's just how I am.

>>18253746
that must be some pretty shitty bacon. hows it gonna be crispy?

>>18253877
I don't know of a good one, not anything that can't be knocked.

>>18253877
The cast iron skillet is easy, that's just a simple wipe down and from experience I just throw the towel or whatever I use into a kitchen sink. That's because once I had one start smoking and almost start a fire in a garbage can.
Once the bacon is done, pour the grease into a grease keeper sort of thing and put it into a fridge for when you need the bacon grease.
The strainer on the things keeps bits out that don't mix well with the grease or give it off flavors, those clean up real easy as long you let any leftover grease settle on the strainer parts.
Hot water does wonders.
Lo and behold, bacon grease for multi use!
Oh, make sure to not buy a big one like I did, I way overpredicted how much I'd go through in a year and well the small one is best.

>>18253676
I'm thinking that I need a Multi Bacon Pass, one of these Multi Pass things but more specific to bacon.

Or is it a Bacon Multi Pass?

>>18253786
Its called free market retard. Make something then sell it. Your dumbass can probably only follow basic instructions for work.

>>18254142
Don't hold it againt them too much, they love freedom which is why so many examples of that have appeared throughout history of people grown under a commie regime that were caught tortured and killed just to get here, a lot easier than Biden's way.
It's also called a "free market" in a lot of other ways that aren't so savory.

I just made bacon and baked potatoes in their fat. I pity Amerifats and city slickers who throw away their fat.

i never get bacon while pork belly exists. it's the same thing without the salty shit

>>18254196
Titties orida it didn't happen

>>18254210
Do you still get bacon grease worthy of saving and using for other things, or is that left for others that you can't specify?

>>18253921
if I had one of these I'd probably go through a lot more bacon. I generally use up any lard I have left over pretty quick.

I often cooked things in leftover bacon grease and my hindi princess girlfriend never knew what it was but loved it all the same as most natural humans do.

>>18254225
That's a Good one, I usually use the Vigo yello, it's great with chili and other things not exluding slop.
"Hey, my chili isn't slop, it's got saffron can't you tell it's real...

This is the Rice communication station sponsored by Q:\002\Vigo_Yellow_Rice.jpg we apologize for any interrupion in your communication frequencies and amplitudes.

>>18254225
... put that bacon grease in the vigo and you'll be a happy camper when the wife and / gf stops by.

>>18254255
I don't actually use this brand. I can't find a photo online but it comes in a big clear container and it's better than vigo

>>18253676
microwave is the way to go. Now that I know how fast and good it turns out, I cant cook it any other way

>>18253816
>>18253819

bacon is good any way you like it as long as you havent burnt it black

In the oven at 375 for 10 minutes or so. That's 375 Farenheit for all you Eurofags.

>>18254314
Yeah burning the bacon black will yield an off flavor to the grease no matter good the grease keeper might be and that's a sad thing, what a waste.

>>18254342
Have fun cleaning that oven.

>>18253676
Depends on the type of bacon, back bacon I put under the grill/broiler and streaky/american style bacon I put in the oven

>>18254348
>>18254342
Don't you cover it with something to prevent spattering in the oven? Then you have the paper towel clean up, even worse because it's all over an oven and you're still loosing the nice bacon grease.
This is no solution.

>>18254311
soccer mom detected,
get a load of this your kids will become school shooters

>>18253677
fpbp

>>18254362
>he doesn't flavor his oven with bacon grease

>>18253676
in the oven
>place bacon on wire rack
>place wire rack in a nonstick drip pan
>bake for ~18 minutes at 400ish
>pour grease into mason jar for use in other dishes
>place bacon in a glass dish, making layers of bacon and paper towels
>after about 10 minutes of crisping up in the glass dish and paper towels it is ready to eat
very crispy
would reccomend

>>18253676
Depends. If I am making a lot in the oven, parchment paper or a wire rack. If just for breakfast in a pan then cook the eggs in the grease.

>>18254191
>free market
>NO WAIT FUCK YOU WE DONT WANT COMPETITION PAY 7 DOLLARS FOR OUR COOKIES

>>18253677
>>18255224
Is there wire rack really necessary? I just put them on a sheet covered in foil. When done I pat them with paper towels to soak up the grease. Am I retarded? I still get crispy or chewy bacon depending on cook time

>>18255511
I'd like to believe the wire rack means I have more of the grease by itself in the pan
which makes it easier to collect

>>18255535
I guess I can see the logic there if you're hoping to use the grease. I don't and just let it solidify on the pan. Take off foil and boom nearly clean pan

>>18255543
>if you're hoping to use the grease
how else are you gonna run your lawnmower?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHRYxRiboc

>>18254392

>having children
disgusting