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hands up who’s excited for the return of our BBQ RANGE!!
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Bacon! Bacon! BACON! Most of us just can’t get enough of it. We love it piled high on a sandwich, stacked in a fry-up, or crumbled as a garnish over our favourite winter warmer soup. With so many ways to include Bacon in our daily cooking, let’s pay attention to some of the BEST ways to cook it. Here are our top 4 cooking methods for a flasher bacon rasher…
Grilling is one of the most popular ways to cook bacon! Just preheat your grill to 400F and place the strips down. Lay the bacon out on the skillet, and let it cook for 7 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness. Don’t forget to FLIP midway and turn each slice to ensure a nice even cook! Cooking on the grill is a great way to capture all of the great flavours of the fats as they escape and collects in the pan underneath, and a grill-tastic way to help eliminate excessive fat. Use this method and turn out an un-grill-eavable slice of bacon!
Here’s what we bake of this! It is said that cooking bacon in the oven IS BEST because it creates a perfectly crispy, delicious slice of bacon. And we have to agree! It’s also super easy, and creates less mess than cooking it on the stovetop and allows you to multitask in the kitchen. If you’ve never baked bacon, give it a try! Just preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and line a large tray with parchment paper. Place the bacon slices on the tray, and cook for approx 15-20 minutes depending on how crispy you like it. Remove from the over, and place the cooked bacon on top of the kitchen roll to soak up any unwanted grease.
It wasn’t too long ago that people thought cooking bacon in the microwave was absolute sacrilege, but if you’ve tried it yourself, you might be thinking well watt’s up with that? We’re here to remind you that it’s OK to use your micro-wave as your micro-slave by getting it to do all the hard kitchen graft for you! Foods cooked in the microwave offer just as much nutrition as foods cooked using other methods. Just place the bacon on a plate lined with paper towels, place more paper towels on top to help absorb excess fat or splatter, then microwave on high until crispy, approx 4/5 minutes.
With complete confidence, we can say that this method really works! Last week we put TikTok’s ‘Twisted Bacon‘ trend to the test. And it didn’t disappoint! This method is perfect for cooking streaky bacon. Heat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, grab each rasher on both ends and begin to twist before placing them in a lined baking tray. Place the tray in the oven and bake for approx 20-25 mins, and remove from the oven. This method allows you to cook far more bacon in one go in comparison to the other methods. In fact, you can fit several packs in the oven without any overlap. Not only that, it cooks the perfectly balanced slice. Both chewy and crispy!
Maybe you have a best practice bacon cooking practice? Visit us on social media and share them with us! Throughout February we’ll be Bacon You Crazy with some of our favourite bacon recipes in the runup to Valentine’s Day. So why not cook up some lovely bacon for the one YOU love?
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