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with a microwave

with an oven

with a frying pan

any

[steel jackal]

Before this thread, I never even thought about cooking bacon in a oven.

Before this thread, I never even knew pre-cooked bacon was a thing.

This is an educational thread.

i didnt know that cooking bacon in a pan was even possible, i also didnt know pre cooked bacon was a thing either.

who would have thought that a random thought would become educational

[Shadowlord]

The way I learned it was to cook it in the microwave between paper towels, to absorb the grease.

I don't really eat bacon very often.

[x2yzh9]

Well, this must mean it's time to start a educational cooking thread:For bachelors edition

[Frumple]

Pretty sure you just need to search through the food thread a bit, heh.

[x2yzh9]

Pretty sure you just need to search through the food thread a bit, heh.

Right you are about that.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Pan, of course. (Vegetarian bacon exists.) Yum... bacon and eggs. An easy and quick way to turn breakfast into anything-but-another-bowl-of-cereal.

Edit: The people have spoken. Pan it is.

[Aedel]

All of them are good. They taste and feel different and I want different kinds now and again, so I alternate on how I make it.

[penguinofhonor]

If I'm eating the bacon by itself, I use a frying pan because I like my bacon with some crispy spots and some chewy spots. If I'm crumbling it into something as bacon bits, I cook it in the oven because it's more uniformly crispy that way.

If I saw someone try to put bacon in a microwave I would knock it out of their hands. It would do the bacon less injustice to fall on the ground.

[Sheb]

Anyone tried deep-frying bacon?

[Frumple]

Sure? It's a'ight. You... coat it in something first. Flour or whatev', normal deep frying stuff. Been long enough I can't really recall what it tastes like, though.

[JimboM12]

Just bumping to post:

You're all scrubs, I use a George Foreman grill for my bacon! The bacon comes out good and I feel less guilty about hogging down half that pack of bacon. It drains a lot of fat off the bacon and I can save that to cook with or dispose of. Usually cook with. Try bacon burgers without the actual bacon, fry that patty with some of this grease.

[MrRoboto75]

I microwave my bacon most of the time

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[TempAcc]

bacon- microwave or oven?

mouth

[Flying Dice]

Jimbo, that's a good idea, but you just reminded me that there are people who cook microwave bacon. Also apparently some who cook it in the oven for some godforsaken reason.

[FantasticDorf]

How you prepare prior to cooking is as important as how and what you season it with.

Microwaved bacon tends to lose a lot of greasy water content (i would never recommend consistently eating anything out of a microwave) so pad it with kitchen roll underneath to absorb, whereas a oven can just boil (some people cover it in foil to get it heated faster or let the fat drip off into a basin below for storage because animal fat is valuable) the fat right off making it leaner.

In a pan the fat that comes off should be used to enhance the flavour with seasoning for more of a cheaty dirty but very nice treat.