On weekends, I literally get up and make this bacon as soon as I get up. I simply place the bacon in the cold oven, preheat it to 425 degrees, clean my teeth, begin preparing the other breakfast things, and remove the bacon after 14 minutes. According to my theory, the bacon undergoes a miraculous transformation from a cold, flabby piece of meat to crispy bacon heaven as the oven reaches the 425-degree mark by being placed in a cold oven to begin with.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 25 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package thick-cut bacon
Instructions
- Line a large baking sheet with 2 sheets aluminum foil, making sure the sheet is completely covered.
- Arrange bacon strips 1/2-inch apart on the prepared baking sheet. Place in the cold oven.
- Heat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Cook bacon for 14 minutes.
- Transfer cooked bacon to a paper towel-lined plate. Let cool for 5 minutes for bacon to crisp.
- I like to use naturally hickory smoked thick-sliced bacon to achieve the best results.
- You might want to check the bacon after 12 minutes to account for the differences in oven heating times and thickness of the bacon.
- Pair this recipe with
- recipe, which also takes 14 minutes to prepare.
Reviews
He says that you can put these bacon things into an oven for 14 mins and it should reach 425 by the end. Maybe he has a rich persons oven but it doesn’t work with mine. Undercooked and nasty. I hope it worked for other people. Maybe the usual way that makes sense is better than taking advice from a lazy man.
Too many variables to be reliable. Each of the following contribute to the success of this recipe. – Speed that oven reached temperature. – Bacon thickness. – Water content of bacon – Desired doneness of bacon You really need to experiment to get the right parameters for your oven and bacon.
Followed directions exactly… PERFECT BACON! I used parchment paper instead of foil. Not sure if that makes any difference?
I have baking bacon for a couple years now but I use parchment paper and preheat oven to 400, baking for 20. What I liked about this was I could start with a cold oven! Summer is around the corner (hopefully ) and you want to heat your kitchen as little and as short as possible. Followed to the letter except my baking sheet would not allow for 1/2” spacing with the lb bacon I used. I learned it takes exactly 14 min for my oven to come to 425 (as Joseph implies), but it took my oven/bacon almost 20 min to get the crisp texture we prefer……which is close to the same cook time as my other one! But again, I can start from cold oven….slight advantage over my other version. Plan to try this again with parchment next time and if that also works, I plan to replace mine with this. Thanks Joseph!
It’s the only way to cook bacon! No mess, no curling, wonderful bacon drippings for other dishes and one less dish to hover over during meal prep. Note that standard thin sliced bacon will cook much faster. I use parchment paper at 400º for mine.
Did not have grease popping everywhere and it was so easy to do!!
That’s the way I cook my bacon in the oven. However, I put the tray with bacon in the oven and let it heat to 350. It’s usually done to my liking by the time it hits 350.
My younger sister cooks her bacon like this. She preheats her oven to 400 and it takes 18-20 minutes. The bacon turns out only slightly crispy the way we all like it. We had some yesterday morning with homemade, from scratch, old-fashioned pancakes smothered with pure maple syrup.
Followed the directions and had delicious, crisp bacon! This is now my preferred way to cook bacon.
Quick clean easy way to make crispy cooked bacon . I could not believe the bacon would be this Good ! I would give this recipe 20 stars
Great cooking technique! I agree with other reviewers that starting with a cold oven is key and I appreciate that the original directions say to check after 12 min because everyone’s oven is different. My family likes their bacon a little less crispy and so I took another reviewer’s suggestion to cook at 400 degrees and it came out perfectly.
no changes. but it was delicious and the greatest recipe ever.
I have been cooking bacon like this for years, this is how the military cooks bacon, always crispy!!!
Five stars the recipe was amazing!
First time frying Bacon in the oven. I love how easy it is and will do this more often because it saves time and clean up is easy. The Bacon turned out perfect but it took 19 minutes instead of 14 minutes in my 425 degree oven not counting the 10 minute heat up time.
This is a full proof bacon recipe. I cook the bacon in convection. No greasy mess and splatter and easy to clean up. This is the only way I make bacon now. For company you can make the bacon in advance and just heat in the microwave for under a minute.Delicious!
The 11 yr old son calls it “delicious.” I know my oven so I need to watch it at the 12 minute mark…but turned out very well….
I’m embarrassed that I never thought of doing this. What a great, efficient and effective method for cooking large amounts of bacon quickly.
Awesome recipe. I had to cook mine 20 min for thick cut bacon but that’s probably because my gas oven took 8-9 min to get to 425 degrees. Definitely need to fine tune the cook times based on bacon and oven. Really tasty bacon.
The bacon turned out just the way i like it??crispy but yet a little chewy as well. This will be the way i cook my bacon from now on it was the cleanest and fastest way to cook . Instead of spending time turning the bacon i can cook other things while it’s cooking.
Bacon tastes so much better cooked in the oven! This is definitely my preferred method of cooking now. I just found a recipe to make a large batch of fried eggs on a baking sheet in the oven that takes about the same amount of time. Breakfast is served!