WFMW - Cooking Bacon (Low Carb Diet)

With our new low carb way of eating, we eat bacon nearly every morning. Sounds yummy, right? Sure, but how many hours will it take to cook bacon for a family of 14? WAYYYY too long (we did it a few days before we found this better way!) Kudo's and credit to my wonderful hubby - he is the one that spent time searching the web trying to find an easier way to cook bacon. This is the way that works for us! Enjoy!

Here is the fast and easy way to make any amount of bacon you want:
1. Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Take a cooking sheet ("jelly roll" style) and grease with cooking spray (or whatever your favorite type of grease/oil is).
3. Place the strips of bacon very close together, getting as many slices as possible on the tray (I can usually get 12-13 slices per tray). Don't worry if the slices touch a bit, they shrink fast and even if they come out attached to each other when done cooking, they come apart easily.
4. Put cooking sheet(s) in oven and set timer for 15 minutes.
5. Turn on exhaust fan to low. After a few minutes you might notice some bacon steam coming out of the oven - rest assured the bacon is not on fire. Simply open the oven door and let some of that steam out, close the door and keep the exhaust fan on.
6. Bacon cooks at slightly different rates depending on if it is thick or regular cut and also depending on how many trays you have in the oven at one time.

7. Check bacon at the 15 min. mark and decide if it is done enough for your liking. It will get a nice layer of foam on the top of the bacon when it is getting close to being done, so don't be alarmed. If it is still pale and/or floppy, give it another 5 min. and then re-check. If it is close to being done, but maybe not quite as crisp as you would like it to be, give it another 2 min. and check again.
8. When bacon is cooked to your liking, remove from tray and place on paper towels to absorb the bacon grease. Poor bacon grease from the tray immediatly into a grease bucket/container. This will make washing up the trays much easier later.

Remember bacon has low to no carbs (read the labels!) and dietary fat does not make us/people fat; carbs are what make us fat.

Also, make a few extra pieces to crumble and use on salads or other recipes. It also reheats great in the microwave.

To read my other low carb posts to here, here and here.

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