Hi everyone, today I'm going to show you how to make bacon in the oven without all of the mess. Okay, that's the number one complaint when bacon is cooked in the oven is the grease splatter that gets everywhere, right? It's at the top, the sides, the bottom of the oven, the front of it, it's just a mess. And I don't know about you, but I don't like cleaning that up. I mean, it's just a pain. So today's recipe, I'm going to show you how to eliminate that and your bacon is going to turn out nice and flat when you cook it this way. It'll be evenly cooked and it'll be as crispy as you like it. So I'm rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you all the details on how to do it right after this. Let's start off with our chef joke. We'll have another one a little bit later. All right, so what do you get when you cross a pig and a centipede? Bacon and legs. Okay, let's talk about the equipment that we want to use to make our bacon in the oven. Or at least I'll call it equipment. All right, you need a baking sheet with a lip. That's really important. So you want to a lip like this, at least an inch, so that way it contains the grease. Otherwise, if you have one of those flat baking sheets, it's going to be all over your oven. So you need that. We're going to use a piece of foil. We're going to place that in the bottom of our baking sheet and that's just going to make for some easy cleanup, which we all love, right? And then the most important part is some parchment paper. You really need to use parchment paper. I haven't tried using foil on the top. I've only used parchment paper and I know it works. And you want to cut your piece so that it fits in the bottom, you know, it fits on in the pan right inside of the lip. Now, here's one thing you do not want to use when you're cooking bacon in the oven. And that is a rack. A lot of people will take their rack, place it in the baking sheet and think that's wonderful. The grease is going to drip away and it's going to be all, you know, great. Well, I tried it once. Never again. This is the bacon sticks to the pan and you get bacon pieces all in the little grooves here and it is one major pain to clean. So don't use a rack. And also when you cook the bacon in the pan on the bottom of the pan, like I'm going to show you, it's cooking in its own grease that it renders out just like as if you're cooking it in the pan on the stove. So it just cooks evenly and cooks better. So I've got the foil in the pan and now you just take your bacon. Now remember that there's different thicknesses of bacon, right? This happens to be a little bit thicker and that's just going to change the cooking time compared to a thin piece. You want to lay this in the pan so that they don't touch each other. I'm only going to cook five pieces so I have plenty of room here. If they touch each other, they will stick together. So I try to avoid that. So you just want to lay it in there. If you have to cut the pieces, you can do that as well, but just lay it in flat like that. Now, I want to mention that cooking bacon in the oven like this is really good for, like, if you're cooking bacon for at least two people. If you're going to cook bacon for just yourself and you're going to cook two pieces or three maybe, you might as well do that on the stove in a frying pan. And I have a video that shows you how to do that really well. So I'll leave a link for you in the bottom below this video. So I'm in the place, the parchment paper on the top and just kind of like push it down so it kind of sticks a little bit. This is going to go in the oven. You do not have to pre-eat your oven. Mine, I'm just going to turn it on right now at 350 degrees. It'll heat up slowly. It'll cook your bacon. It actually works out a little bit better because the fat renders out nice and slow and it just seems to work well. And we're going to check it in 15 minutes. So it's going to cook somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes. So I'm going to place this near the bottom, not the very bottom rack, but one up from the bottom. I want to mention another advantage to cooking your bacon in the oven. And that is it's pretty much hands off. Once I put it in the oven, it's pretty much you don't have to tend to it. You just let it go. Now we may turn it over one time at about 15 minutes. We'll see. We'll just see where we're at. But that's what I like about it as well. It's just so hands off. All right, so now let's get into chef joke number two. All right, here we go. Knock knock. Who's there? Bacon. Bacon who? Bacon to cake for your birthday. All right, we're going to have a look at the bacon after 15 minutes. Now remember, this is thicker. You can see it's cooking away here in its juices. Pull this back. It's going to go and see it's going to stick a little bit to my paper. But and we could turn it over here if we wanted to. But it's cooking nicely. There is no splatter in my oven, which I love. But we really don't even need to turn it over. So I'm not going to turn the rest over. And I'm going to let this go another probably five minutes. So here's our bacon right out of the oven. This took because it's thick bacon took quite a bit longer than my thin bacon. And I cooked that the other day. All right, let's have a look here. Now be careful. There's a lot of grease in this pan. So when you take it out of the oven, you don't want to spill it. This paper is very, very greasy as well. So be careful when you're handling that. I'm going to just put it right in my garbage. See how nice and stiff it is? That means it's going to be nice and crunchy. Now I cooked this for about 30 minutes. So here's our bacon. It's nice and flat, evenly cooked, and crispy throughout. And it tastes so good. Now as far as all this bacon grease goes, you want to be careful, like I said with it. Just let it cool. It will harden up. And then all you got to do is peel this foil up, make a little ball throughout in your garbage can. That's all you have to do. And then the pan will maybe a little bit greasy, but it's a real easy, quick cleanup. So cooking bacon in the oven is the way to go. At least that's how I feel about it. I love it. Less cleanup, no mass, no fuss. It's great. If you'd like to try another bacon recipe from me, I've got a link for you right over here for my bacon wrapped shrimp with some avocado. It is delicious. You really should try it. And let me know what you think. So thanks so much for watching. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel. Smash the like button for me and leave me a comment. All right. We'll see you next week.