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How to bake bacon – the best crispy, crunchy, salty bacon baked right in your oven – with tricks to keep it from splattering and spraying everywhere.
This is our absolute FAVORITE way to make crisp, crunchy, perfect bacon – and it’s fairly mess-free!
Just bake in the oven, and when you’re done, lift the foil and you’re done cleaning – and you’ve made the best crunchy baked bacon, ever.
If you need crunchy bacon bits for a ceasar salad, sandwiches, or other recipes – this is the best method for the perfect crunch.
We’ve tried other methods like air frying and pan frying, but always go back to this super-simple method for making bacon in the oven – it is just too good to pass up!
Serve this bacon up with eggs benedicts, any of our favorite deviled eggs, fruit salad, sangria mimosas, peach bellinis, or cardamom coffee for a crave-worthy breakfast!
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What Bacon To Use
We prefer using a thick-cut American style bacon for this recipe – this is not the preferred way (for our family) to make Canadian bacon or British-style bacon.
Thin sliced bacon sticks to the foil, and has less of a crunch.
We often buy Wright brand bacon or similar brands that offer thick-cut bacon in a resealable bag.
What You Need To Bake Bacon:
This method for preparing bacon has a really, really small list of essential tools – you’ll just need a baking sheet, nonstick foil, paper towels, and of course, your oven!
- Baking Sheet – pick one with deep walls, so bacon grease doesn’t splash you when removing from oven or go all over oven and start a grease fire!
- Nonstick Foil – we find our bacon releases best from nonstick foil. Some people place bacon on a cooling rack above the baking sheet, but we find the flavor and crunch is best from bacon cooking right on the pan in the fat – so foil is essential for easy cleanup and nonstick results!
- Paper Towels – since we’re cooking bacon in it’s grease, it’s essential to cool it on paper towels to dab off grease. While this makes bacon less greasy, it also improves flavor.
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Recipe FAQs
Cooked bacon can keep in the fridge for up to five days in an airtight container.
How To Bake Bacon
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How To Bake Bacon
Equipment
Ingredients
- 12 strips thick-cut bacon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line a baking sheet with deep walls with nonstick aluminum foil.
- Place bacon on foil in baking sheet. Keep bacon close together to get slices to fit on pan – but don’t let bacon overlap for even cooking.
- Bake for 20-40 minutes – to your preferred doneness. We personally like deep brown bacon and cook closer to 40 minutes – but my parents like it a bit lighter, and closer to 20 minutes.
- Remove bacon from oven. Using tongs or a fork, carefully lift bacon from pan and place on plate lined with paper towels.
- Let bacon cool and dab with paper towels to remove any extra grease.
- Let bacon grease solidify and cool on baking sheet, then lift to release and clean without any work!
I do my bacon just like this all the time, the only thing I do different it to put the foil on the sheet, add a baking cooling rack, put the bacon on the rack, all the grease drips on the foil.