The Best Way To Cook Bacon? | Techniquely with Lan Lam
Want evenly-cooked and perfectly browned bacon? Or maybe you prefer bacon that’s more tender or crispy? Lan Lam demonstrates three methods you can use to achieve your perfect bite of bacon, no matter how you define “perfect”.
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24 Comments
Best way to cook is to fold bacon in half, cook in pan til crispy on the outside. Inside remains chewy. Best of both worlds and you can fit twice the bacon.
I'll be trying the water method for cooking more than 10 pieces though.
Just used the oven method for a pound of bacon. BLTs all week!
Thick and chewy for me, but my wife likes crispy.
I've cooked bacon so many different ways over the years: skillet, oven, microwave, air fryer; oven is the best way, imo. But I do remember a special skillet that had a mallet attached to it when the bacon starts to curl up, the mallet whacks em straight. Or maybe that was one of those old Tex Avery cartoons? 🤔🤷🏾♂️
ruffled and crispy! love this video!
One additional idea: Parchment paper lined sheet pan with wire rack.
400-425 for 20 minutes, don't preheat
Does the water not make the fat/grease pop?
She really loves her bacon crispy. Chewy is the best!
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How to OVER THINK a
simple pleasure.
Good information but why do the presenters always have to eat the food? We don't have to see it, we know it tastes good.
I always loves how Lan mixed science with cooking techniques 😍
it is late and I am hungry
It's worthwhile to learn how to cook better bacon! Thanks!
Skillet low and slow.
Thank you for this! I gave up stove-cooking bacon years ago because of the inconsistency and now do it in the oven…. for 40 minutes. A faster method that keeps consistency is welcome.
Method #1 Use a (preheated) cast iron pan.
Method #2 Use a (preheated) cast iron baking pan.
Even cooking is key with bacon. Cast iron is key to doing that…
I like to cook bacon in the oven. It stays flat and gets crispier.
I agree with the technique and have been cooking bacon with water for years, but why are these recipes always framed as solving the problem of how to cook an entire package of bacon at once? Is that a problem people have? I cannot imagine any scenario where I would have to cook an entire package all at once, and I absolutely adore bacon.
Thank you!! Looooove this series with Lan! 🙏 I cooked the PERFECT bacon tonight thanks to this video! 🔥 You’re the best, ATK!
I like crispy bacon, please.
I like bacon just before it becomes crispy.
Would this be the same for Turkey Bacon? (I love Bacon but don’t eat Pork!)
At point 2:42 in the video – that is how my dad loved his bacon. He loved the curled, not-fully rendered fat at the ends – He loved the larger “bubbles” of fat. And i have to say….pretty tasty that way!