Bacon in the Oven

Some people might not know, but you can actually cook bacon in the oven. Instead of frying it in a pan on the stove, or trying to make it on a counter-top griddle, you can save yourself the mess, the babysitting and flipping, and just line a baking sheet with extra-long tinfoil, bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minute or until you achieve your preferred level of doneness, and that's it! Cleanup is a snap. Just ball up the foil, along with all the grease and throw it away.

This foil-lined baking sheet will hold 1 package of sought-bought bacon perfectly.

All done!

Here is the pan after, and I just balled up the tin foil and threw it away.

Marsha's Tips:

It is okay if your bacon pieces are touching or overlapping just slightly, but you don't want your bacon to overlap too much or it won't cook evenly.

I set a timer for 20 minutes, checked the bacon, and then just kept checking on it every few minutes until it looked the way I liked it.

If you are going to foil your pan for easy cleanup, you must use the extra-wide tin foil to cover a pan like this. Standard foil isn't wide enough and will require two overlapping pieces to cover the pan. In the place where the foil overlaps, the bacon grease will often leak through and make the pan dirty anyway, causing you additional cleanup.