Oven Bacon
Line your cookie sheet with aluminum foil. You’ll want the foil to run up the sides a bit forming a lip. This will make clean up the easiest.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Take the bacon out of the package and lay each strip on the cookie sheet. You want to make sure the bacon strips are not touching each other. This way they will cook evenly. You can only cook about eight strips on a cookie sheet so for a crowd you might need two cookie sheets.
Put the cookie sheet with the bacon laid out on it on the rack in your oven. With thin bacon it will take about 12 to 14 minutes. Watch it toward the end and stop cooking it when you like the color and crispiness. Thick bacon will take more like 15 minutes depending on how thick it is. I like mine pretty brown.
Take the cookie sheet out of the oven. I take out a plate and cover it with a double-thick piece of paper towel. Take the bacon pieces off the cookie sheet and place them in a row over the paper towels to drain. Eat on demand.
Back to the cookie sheet. You have a few options. One is to just let it sit until the grease firms up. Then take it off the cookie sheet and toss it.
Another option is to let it sit while you have your meal but then carefully pull up the edges on all four sides and carefully carry that to your trash bin and put it in. The bacon grease won’t be solidified yet, but it can be transferred without mess.
If you are totally successful, your cookie sheet might need a quick wipe but the mess stayed on the aluminum foil.
Enjoy your bacon!
Cheers,
Zola
