tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942946300793285698.post7740897220464630603..comments2023-12-07T13:40:13.020-08:00Comments on Culinary Alchemy: Taken with Bakin' BaconShane T. Wingerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16888895986379282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942946300793285698.post-5234769727323484762012-04-15T14:26:35.120-07:002012-04-15T14:26:35.120-07:00Oh Shane, I am so proud of you, I too save my baco...Oh Shane, I am so proud of you, I too save my bacon grease. I learned it from my mother, who learned it from her mother. It is a secret ingredient in the pancakes that I make that everyone raves over. My husband loves his eggs cooked in it. I almost always have a container of bacon grease in my freezer. I love baking my bacon. I used to make it in the microwave but it seems to go from not done to totally burned way too easily.Patti T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00203629964623921179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942946300793285698.post-26371095842153689322012-04-15T04:43:31.555-07:002012-04-15T04:43:31.555-07:00I do oven bacon often. I do not bother to cover t...I do oven bacon often. I do not bother to cover the bacon with parchment, I don't seem to have much splatter. <br /><br />I do sometimes jaccard (repeatedly poke with a fork) both sides of the bacon which takes all the tendency to curl out of it, though cooking in the oven has much less of the tendency than in a skillet. Still, if I'm after super flat bacon for presentation or to sit well as part of a sandwich, it's a useful trick.<br /><br />The other thing I do is fresh cracked pepper over both sides of the bacon before baking. While the result isn't quite the same the pretty commercial pepper bacon in the store, it still gets a wonderful "peppery" flavor and for a lot less money. <br /><br />Lastly, I do tend toward thick cut bacon more than thin. I usually use thin cut when I need it to wrap around something, such as a shrimp or tatter tots.Tatooshnoreply@blogger.com