Oven-Baked Bacon

Perfectly crispy bacon slices baked in the oven with minimal mess and easy cleanup. Includes an optional process to strain and store rendered bacon grease for future use.

Total time: 14 h 37 min • Active: 27 min • Inactive: 14 h 10 min

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Ingredients

1 ea parchment paper
8 ea bacon
2 ea paper towel
1 ea fine mesh sieve
1 ea glass storage container
1 ea strained bacon fat
1 ea container lid

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Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F).

Line a baking tray with parchment paper to create a parchment-lined tray.

Arrange 8 bacon slices in a single layer side by side on the parchment-lined tray.

Bake the bacon in the preheated oven until it reaches your desired level of crispiness (about 10–20 minutes). Check after 10 minutes and continue baking as needed.

Line a plate with a paper towel to create a paper-towel-lined plate.

Remove the tray from the oven and use tongs to transfer the cooked bacon onto the paper-towel-lined plate to drain excess fat.

Optional: Line a fine mesh sieve with a paper towel to prepare for straining bacon fat.

Optional: Position the lined sieve over a glass storage container.

Optional: Pour the rendered bacon fat from the tray into the lined sieve to strain out any solids into the glass container.

Optional: Cover the glass container with its lid and refrigerate the strained bacon fat for future use.

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