Perfect Oven-cooked Bacon

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb bacon
• 1/4 teaspoon water

Recipe

• 1 do not pre-heat the oven.
• 2 you will not be using the 1/4 teaspoon water. i had to add it to the ingredients list because food.com will not let you upload a recipe that only has one ingredient, so i had to make up a second ingredient.
• 3 place the bacon in a single layer on a cold, rimmed baking sheet. if you like, you can line the pan with parchment paper to make clean-up easier, but i like to save my bacon grease to cook with, and the parchment makes it difficult to get it all out of the baking sheet, so i just leave the pan unlined.
• 4 place the pan on the center rack of a cold oven. set the oven to 400º.
• 5 cook for 15 to 20 minutes. very thin bacon will only take about 15 minutes, thick-cut bacon will take 20. after 15 minutes, keep an eye on the bacon to make sure it is not getting too brown.
• 6 immediately remove the bacon to a plate lined with paper towels.
• 7 blot the top of the bacon with paper towels to remove extra grease.
• 8 if you like, save the bacon grease in a heat-proof container. the grease can be stored in the fridge and used later in other recipes - you just got two products for the price of one :).