Barefoot Contessa's Oven Roasted Bacon Recipe - Food.com (2024)

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How does Ina Garten make bacon in the oven? ›

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lay the bacon on a sheet pan and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the bacon is really crispy. Dry on paper towels and serve.

Bake the bacon in a 400°F oven until well-browned and crisp, this should take between 15 and 18 minutes depending on the thickness of your bacon. To follow Martha's method to a T, you'll need to rotate the sheet pan halfway through.

Regular, thin-cut bacon will typically bake in 12 minutes at 400 degrees F. If you want it extra crispy, you can let it bake a little longer, but keep a close eye on it. For Thick-Cut Bacon. Thicker bacon will take 14 to 20 minutes, depending upon your thickness and how crisp you would like it to be.

Oven bacon gets just as crispy, if not crispier, and there's very little mess to clean up after. Making a batch of bacon in the oven also means you can do other things while it's cooking.

"So here's how I make a lot of bacon, and I find it much easier," the TODAY weatherman said in a video posted to Instagram Friday morning. "Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, lay out your bacon and then you bake it at about 375 — to 400 degrees — in your oven."

Cooking bacon in the oven can help you achieve evenly crisp bacon slices to prevent burnt ends and chewy and raw middles.

The directly-on-the-pan method is very simple and works well, but there is a lot of cleanup. You have to soak the pan before you can wash it. I really didn't think this would be the case, but I liked the parchment method the best. It had the least cleanup, and the bacon cooked really nicely.

Always cook bacon on foil or parchment paper at 400°F. Cook regular sliced bacon for 14 minutes; thick-cut bacon for 18 minutes. If you cook less than a full sheet of bacon, check after 12 minutes. For extra-crispy bacon, bake it on top of a metal cooling rack set over the baking sheet.

Do you have to flip bacon when cooking in oven? ›

You don't have to flip it while cooking. You just lay the bacon on a baking sheet, stick it in the oven, and set a timer. The strips of bacon bubble away in the oven (no splattering!) and gradually become the crispy, golden-hued, irresistible bacon we know and love.

Cook bacon on the stovetop by placing it in a cold pan and bringing the pan up to heat – the fat will render more quickly and completely that way. Use a bacon press to keep bacon flat in a skillet. Cook bacon in the oven on a sheet pan at 400ºF for 15 to 20 minutes (depending on the bacon).

Lay the bacon slices on the rack without overlapping. (I usually grind on some black pepper at this point, but that's just me. Place on the middle rack of a cold oven, close the door, and crank the heat to 400 F. Roast for 30 minutes, or until desired doneness.