Growing up my mom would always cook our bacon on the stove in a pan, but upon discovering the oven method this past week I don’t think I’ll ever use the stove again. Whenever I cook bacon I always make a huge mess and end up getting burnt by splattering grease. It’s probably my own fault and I’m sure I can make some adjustments to make it easier, but now that I’ve discovered the oven cooking method I don’t need to.

It’s extremely simple and the best part is you don’t have to hover over the bacon as it cooks!

1. Preheat your oven to 375-degrees.
2. Line a baking pan with tin foil and make sure that you create a lip with the foil so that the grease cannot escape the foil.
3. Lay out your bacon on the tin foil and place in the oven.
4. I let mine cook for 25 minutes, but I like my bacon very crispy, if you don’t want it as crispy I would start checking it around 18-20 minutes.
5. Remove the bacon and place on a paper towel and cover with another one to soak up the grease
6. Serve.

Remember that the bacon will appear a lot less crispy than it actually is when you first take it out of the oven. Once the grease is soaked up in the paper towels it will become extremely crispy and delicious. I really can’t believe that I’ve never used this method to cook bacon.

What other bacon cooking tips do you guys have, we’d love to hear them!

[image courtesy of This is Reverb]

I never have time for breakfast before I head in to work in the morning, but after seeing these things I may have to make a batch the night before. Over at Cookin’ in the ‘Cuse, they have a delicious recipe for breakfast cookies that contains bacon of course. The cookies resemble an oatmeal raisin cookie, but when you bite into them you are in for much more than just raisins!

• 1/2 lb. bacon
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup of flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups of multi-grain flakes or corn flakes
• 1/2 cup raisins

And this is how you make it according to “Cookin’ in the ‘Cuse”

“Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cook bacon until very crisp, drain well and break into 1/2 inch pieces.  Beat together butter and sugar till light and fluffy.  Beat in egg.  Combine flour and baking soda; stir into butter mixture.  Stir in bacon, mult-grain flakes and raisins.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Space 2 inches apart.  Bake for 15-18 minutes.  Remove to rack to cool–about 2 minutes, then remove from rack. ”

These sound absolutely delicious and I’m getting hungry just thinking about them. If anyone out there has a chance to make these, feel free to leave your comments below and let us know what you think! And don’t forget to check out Cookin’ in the ‘Cuse for other great recipes and food talk!

Have you ever had that urge to put bacon on absolutely everything you eat? Well I have and this recipe was a life saver on a lonely Wednesday night. Over at Nosheteria they have come up with a delicious way to add your favorite food, bacon, to delicious popcorn! And the kicker to the whole thing is that the popcorn is actually cooked in the bacon grease! How amazing does that sound.

So first thing’s first, fry up that bacon. Make sure it’s nice and crunchy and greasy.
Once that is done, remove the bacon strips and place them on a paper towel, dabbing them to get some of the grease off if you prefer.
Now pour the popcorn kernels into the pan full o’ bacon grease and put a lid over the kernels. You’ll start to hear the popcorn popping, wait until you feel like all the kernels have popped and remove the lid.
Pour the popcorn into a bowl
Cut up the bacon strips and sprinkle them over the popcorn and Enjoy.

Thanks to Nosheteria for the recipe/picture.

Some guy named Maks put together a website with his “ingenius” recipe for Bacon Cereal. It’s actually not really cereal at all, it’s more of a modified salad minus the lettuce or vegetables or anything that could possibly make a salad good for you. I don’t even know how someone could eat an entire bowl of this stuff it looks absolutely disgusting. It consists of cooking bacon and chopping it up, then filling a small bowl with bleu cheese salad dressing and mixing in the bacon bits… that’s it! There is nothing more to this “cereal”. The bleu cheese is the milk replacement and the bacon is the cereal replacement, and it replaces anything that was appetizing about cereal.This is what Maks had to say about his experience with the cereal,

“It probably compares to being electrocuted while having your wisdom teeth removed by a back alley dentist. My tongue burned with each bite from the sodium content.“

If you want to see some more detailed pictures of this recipe then head on over to Maks website for some larger, more detailed pictures of this monstrosity.

FRANCHEEZIE!!! I bet you’re asking yourself what a francheezie is. Well if you guessed the most delicious food on the planet you are correct! This one is a little harder to make at home, but you can figure it out.

Here’s what you do.

Take a jumbo hot dog, cut it down the middle, fill it with american cheese (or whatever cheese you prefer on your hot dogs), then wrap that sucker with bacon and deep fry the hell out if it. Put on a hot dog bun with some ketchup and enjoy with your chocolate covered bacon. Mmmmmmm, so good.