How to Cook Crispy Bacon in the Oven
Baking bacon in the oven is the best way to cook for perfectly crispy bacon, bake bacon at 350°F temperature.
It’s unbelievable that most of the bacon packages still show in instruction the first option for cooking bacon in a frying pan.
Maybe it makes sense for cooking a few slices. But if you need to cook more than that, then I think is baking in the oven is best and bacon baked in the oven are cooks evenly and more crispy.
Baking is easier as compare to pan-frying
Baking bacon in the oven is very easy to cook. It does not require much skill to cook perfectly just your attention so that you could crisp it according to your need. The best benefits of baking bacon in the oven are that you can easily bake a large number of bacon slices easily which is not possible to fry in the pan. There is also required to clean all the grease that in frying bacon but if you are baking in the oven with bacon oven racks then your grease will be stored in the oven pan which is easy to clean or you can store as you like.
How to bake bacon in the oven
Baking bacon in the oven is so easy just follow the instruction below. Here are the steps:
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Arrange the slices of bacon in a single layer on the bacon rack.
3. Bake for 20 minutes and your bacon is ready to eat.
Why we need to bake bacon in a 350°F
Many bacon recipes will tell you to heat your oven to 400°F. This is not bad. But as per my experience, bacon bakes more evenly when the temperature is set to 350°F.
At a higher heat, bacon tends to burn very quickly. One time it’s slightly raw, five minutes later the edges of bacon are burnt.
The rack is helpful
If you like crispy bacon, then arrange it on stainless steel bacon oven racks that you can buy from BaKrisp® Bacon Oven Racks.
The bacon oven racks can be cleaned in the dishwasher, so cleanup is quite easy. You can simply put your rack on the pan with and arrange the bacon slices directly on the racks.
For how much time you should you bake bacon in the oven?
If you like crispy bacon then baking 20 minutes at 350°F is quite good. But if you like extra crispy bacon you can then bake it longer. The temperature of the oven and personal taste preferences vary so you need to check how your oven works best for you.
Should you flip the slices in mid of cooking?
The answer is no. In oven due to racks bacon cooks beautifully and evenly, especially at a lower temperature.
