Tonight we did the whole breakfast for dinner thing. Mmm, that’s always fun! Sir Megabyte tried something his father showed him. I’m not sure where it was learned from, they watch a lot of the food network and stuff like that in his family so perhaps there? At any rate, I just wanted to post about it because it was very tasty.
Sir Megabyte put our bacon on a tin foil covered cookie sheet. He put this in the oven set at 350 for about 20 minutes. Then, he tilted the pan a bit so that the grease ran to one side. I’m not sure why, but the baking of the bacon made the bacon way yummy. Skillet cooking is OK, but it seems so hard to get the bacon to come out great. This definately seems to work better than skillet cooking!
So, next time you try to make bacon, try this out! The kids loved it, I loved it, Sir Megabyte loved it enough to steal the idea from his dad and share with us… so that should say something! Mmmmm…. bacon!
My tummy is happy. Not sure if it is the bacon or if it is the yummy black raspberry jam I put on my biscuit. Mmmm good food!
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elle_cosette said:
I assume you don’t have to turn the bacon? Did he just put a little metal something under one side of the pan to tilt it? How many pieces could you put on before it would be overflowing at the grease end?
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Lady Ozma said:
Um…. you know…
He did not tell me about turning the bacon over. I’ll ask him and ammend later, once he’s home.
As for your other questions. He put tin foil on the cookie sheet. He cooked a whole package of bacon on one cookie sheet and one pan. There was a fair amount of bacon on each, but I didn’t really count. And as for tilting it, he said he just did that when he pulled it out of the oven. He pulled it out, tilted just a bit and let it sit there for a few minutes.
Next time he does it I will follow what he does more carefully. If I had not been cleaning up from the Project Specialty Explosion in the family room and had known what he was doing I’d have been on him like glue trying to see this newfangled idea.
We had enough bacon to feed five of us. Mmmm bacon. 🙂 I definately think we need to buy more bacon now! HEHEHE
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elle_cosette said:
Re: Um…. you know…
this sounds like such a great idea. I have been using precooked bacon for a while now, and while it is easy n stuff, it doesn’t have exactly the same taste. Considering how many mouths there are here, this would be awesome.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Um…. you know…
Hmmm, I haven’t seen precooked bacon. But I do know Sir M got the idea from his father and thought it was great. It does help with the grease and the bacon is pretty good. Try it out. 🙂 See what they think. Like I said, fed five of us! 🙂 But at least the bacon wasn’t overcooked or anything.
Word of warning, my mother’s oven heats up slow and then cooks fast. Go figure. So he baked for 20 minutes about at 350 so you’ll definatley want to watch yours depending on your oven. Her oven is also an electric so if you have gas you might have different results as well. (I’ve noticed gas heats up slow and cooks slow on the ovens I’ve used.) He didn’t use baking stones of any sort. He used regular metal pans covered in tin foil.
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lyssrose said:
Mmm…BACON!
He probably got it from watching “Good Eats”…according to the bacon episode, this is how to cook it:
Cooking bacon on your stove top is a losing proposition. Aside from leaving you with shriveled, nasty, little strips, clean up is pretty catastrophic. So I say whether you’re dealing with homemade or store-bought, bake your bacon. Just lay out your slices on a rack over a lipped pan and slide it into a cold oven. Set the thermostat for 400 degrees. The slow heating will allow a lot of the fat to render out without burning the lean. Now once the oven hits temperature, check on the bacon every three minutes because once most of that fat is out, the bacon can burn very, very quickly. By the way if you like your bacon a little on the fatty side just go ahead and start it in a 400 degree oven but remember, check on it every three minutes.
(Taken from the episode transcript found at the Good Eats Fan Page)
Sounds similar, no? *grin*
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Mmm…BACON!
Possibly. I don’t know what they watch. Just know they are always coming up with things from the food network. *shrug* Since they make good food, I find it best to just stuff my face and not ask questions. 🙂 I’m not dumb. You don’t pass up yummy food to waste time asking where the idea came from! HEHE You eat the yummy food and then sit back and let your tummy be happy. 🙂
Does definately sound similar. 🙂
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