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Remove your bacon from the refrigerator 5 6 minutes before cooking to let it warm up a bit. Bacon can be time consuming and messy to prepare for a large breakfast or brunch get together.

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Check bacon to make sure each strip is fully cooked.

How to pre cook bacon. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15 minutes and then turn strips over to bake on other side for 10 minutes. After 20 to 25 minutes the bacon should be slightly undercooked which is ideal for precooked bacon that you re going to reheat later. By precooking the bacon the day before however you can serve a large amount without the hassle of preparing the bacon as your guests arrive.

Cook the bacon on medium low flipping the strips after 7 8 minutes or when it begins to curl. One way to cook bacon is by making it on the stovetop. Remove cookie sheet from oven and place cooked bacon strips on paper towels to absorb excess grease.

You can also buy 2 5 or 3 ounce packages of cooked and crumbled real bacon pieces. Notes from home cooks no baking rack. Place the strips of bacon on a wire rack in the cookie sheet.

If you prefer more tender bacon cook your strips at 375 f 191 c for about 35 minutes. The extra grease will be absorbed by the paper towels and the bacon will crisp up a bit as it cools. Line the baking sheet then crumple up some more foil and lay the bacon on that to hold.

Then lay the bacon flat on an unheated frying pan fitting as many strips as you can. After precooking your bacon should be flexible not too crisp in order to properly reheat them. Enter oven cooked bacon a hands off technique that is infinitely easier than cooking it in a skillet and won t make your whole kitchen smell like bacon for days.

If bacon was overlapping quickly separate bacon strips with tongs while hot to prevent the bacon from sticking. You can then transfer it to a clean plate to serve. Transfer cooked bacon to a paper towel lined platter.

Fold a 15 by 10 inch sheet of wax paper in half and stack about 4 bacon strips onto each paper layer. Precooked bacon is available in premium cut thick slice lower sodium and maple flavored varieties. You want to cook bacon to just before crisp when precooking to prevent overcooking when reheating the oven works best for precooking bacon its ambient heat cooks the bacon gently unlike the surface heat of a frying pan the fat renders more slowly and the bacon tends to stay flat making storage easier.

They re usually near the shelves with the bottles of imitation bacon bits croutons and salad dressings.