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Wed, Feb 07, 2007

Oven-cooked Bacon

Posted at 8:56 pm MST to Technology

I tried Alton Brown's bacon cooking method, where you put the bacon on a rack on a sheet pan in a cold oven. Set the thermostat to 400 degree Fahrenheit, turn on the oven and let it heat. The bacon is supposed to be ready in 12 to 15 minutes, and stay flat instead of crinkling up.

The bacon came out nice and flat, but I don't think it rendered well, and many of the drops of bacon fat on the sheet pan scorched. It also took a lot longer than it should have...

If I try it again I will take my pizza stone out of the oven first. I think it slowed the heating of the oven too much.

I may also think about looking at a new stove. The kitchen in the apartment in Boston was pretty useless, but it had a very nice high-tech oven, and I think I got spoiled. Digital temperature settings. Fancy timers. Heated fast and kept a fairly steady temperature (it cycled often for small amount of time each cycle, which is a good sign). When I set it to preheat and it reached the set temperature, it beeped.

Of course, it's been weeks since I or anyone else was able to drive into my driveway. Nothing large is going to be delivered any time soon: the bottled water guy wimped out yesterday, but I don't blame him a bit since the drifts are still pretty silly and his truck is heavy.

Actually, I need to get my truck in for repairs before I think about any other expenses. The front end has occasionally been making horrible noises when it is in 4-wheel drive, and I've been using 4-wheel drive a lot. I need to find a mechanic: it's been ages since I needed anything other than routine maintenance I can get done at Jiffy-Lube.

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