Oven-Baked Sheet-Pan Bacon

Perfectly crisp bacon for BLTs!

• Hadaree

• Washington

• 5/19/2023

I spray the rack with cooking spray, cleanup is a breeze.

• The cook

• Michigan

• 10/4/2021

Bacon on parchment or foil-lined pan into cold oven. Turn to 425, set timer for 12 minutes. Add more time for crispy.

• tputn

• Western Massachusetts

• 4/18/2021

I concur with the others my dish washer doesn't clean my rack good enough and I'm not scrubbing it. I found that bacon cooked on the rack has a tougher not crispier texture. I've been using parchment paper to line my pan, 400* top rack of the oven rotating the pan at 15 min. for thick sliced bacon. When you get the timing right the bacon is crisp but still melts in your mouth

• duenkel

• Fredonia, WI

• 1/1/2021

Stunned that folks don't realize the advantage of using the wire rack is that the bacon is not sitting in all the grease... so not only is your bacon tastier, but healthier... if you're not going to use the rack, you might as well fry it in the pan! And how hard is it to put a wire rack in your dishwasher???

• mllecathy

• 12/25/2020

I place my bacon on a naked sheet pan oven in 400. Halfway through I drain excess bacon drippings then flip the bacon. When finished I remove the bacon into paper towels then drain the remaining excess and allow it to solidify and use through out my cooking. Cleaning is a breeze versus wire rack and wasting foil.

• Mannue69

• Vicksburg Mississippi

• 12/25/2020

I put the bacon under the broiler for 5 minutes, flip it, the 3 minutes.

• Anya1321

• Crawford, NY

• 12/25/2020

I'm relieved to read the other comments! I, too, just put the bacon directly on the foil to save myself from cleaning a wire rack with bacon grease on it. I hate to admit it but I'm also too lazy to clean the rack afterwards.

• bfreidy

• San Francisco Bay Area

• 4/12/2020

Agree with the other chef, use a baking tray and foil. And I'm not sure where the author came up with 35-50 minutes. I line a baking sheet with foil, add bacon, put in an oven at 375 for 15 minutes. If your oven runs hotter or cooler, add some time. Once you have the time dialed in to how you like your bacon you'll have perfect bacon every time. When it comes out, remove the bacon. When the grease congeals, remove the foil and toss. Nothing to clean.

• Francus

• Charlotte, NC

• 2/6/2020

I've been making bacon this way for years! I do find it easier to just place the bacon on the aluminum foil and flip halfway through instead of using the wire racks, just because I'm lazy and want one less thing to clean.

• alli.beardsley

• Minneapolis, MN

• 3/25/2018