Keep bacon strips from shrinking in your frying pan by rinsing first in ice-cold water. Try it; you'll be surprised by this simple trick!
By Brianna Southworth from Dutch Harbor, Alaska
If everything tastes better deep fried, imagine what it will do to bacon. If you have access to a deep fryer and love crispy bacon, try deep frying it.
This is a page about separating bacon strips without tearing. Separating bacon slices, especially thin ones can result in torn strips.
Make your own crumbled bacon to use as a garnish or in recipes. This is a page about making crumbled bacon.
This page is about cooking bacon for BLTs. There are a few tricks to preparing bacon for sandwiches. You want your meat flat, crisp and free of excess fat.
The shrinking of the fat on a strip of bacon causes it to curl as it cooks. This is a page about keeping bacon from curling.
Bacon may be delicious, but it is generally agreed that cooking it on the stovetop is messy. This is a page about cooking bacon in the oven.
This is a page about removing bacon in one piece. Removing bacon from the package without tearing a strip can be frustrating.
This is a page about preventing bacon grease splatters. It is a good thing bacon tastes so good, because the spatters are not so good. However, there are some ways to prevent the mess.
This is a page about cooking bacon in the microwave. Cooking bacon in the microwave is easy. It also is less messy and usually quicker than cooking it on the stove top.
I use a clean pair of scissors to cut raw bacon strips before cooking. After cooking, I have diced bacon for soups, chowders, and garnishes!
We like to have breakfast at home. We prefer to have a piece of bacon with toast and an orange for breakfast when in a hurry, but prep could take a considerable amount of time and cause a mess.
Isn't cooking bacon a hassle sometimes? My sister-in-law showed me a great way to cut the hassle. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil, spray grates with Pam, place your bacon strips tight together on the grates as it will shrink.
I bake a pound of bacon at 400 degrees F for about 10-12 minutes on two foil-lined jelly roll pans.
When cooking bacon, use wooden chopsticks to flip the strips over. This makes it easy to flip one slice at a time for even cooking.
