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.

A baking sheet or parchment paper? The best way to cook bacon in the oven is on parchment paper because it allows for an easy cleanup. Once you're done and it's cooled down, simply roll all that grease up into the center of the parchment paper and throw it away!

We recommend baking bacon at 400 degrees F. For most recipes, you'd wait for the oven to preheat before you start baking. When baking bacon, however, we suggest sliding the sheet pan into the cold oven so the bacon sits inside as the oven comes to temperature.

Sheet pan + aluminum foil

My personal favorite way to cook bacon in the oven is on a sheet pan lined with aluminum foil, because it cooks evenly and gets crispy on both sides. Lining your pan with aluminum foil will help protect it from grease; it'll need a quick rinse or run through the dishwasher at most.

"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."

Place the pan in the cold oven. Heat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Cook the bacon, as the oven comes up to temperature, for 14 minutes, or until it's cooked to your liking. No need to flip the bacon over during cooking.

Bacon should be cooked at 400°F. Medium-thick bacon slices will need 18 to 20 minutes to reach the perfect level of crispiness. But check the bacon at 10 minutes, and adjust your cooking time to your preferred degree of doneness.

Diner and restaurant chefs usually position the strips on a rack atop a baking sheet and place it in the oven to effectively drain the excess fat. Unlike cooking bacon in a pan where the fat accumulates and leads to soggy, uneven-cooked strips, this method ensures the most desirable results.

Bacon-Cooking Method: Baking on Parchment Paper

About This Method: Martha Stewart's technique promises a “spatter-free” way to get “perfectly crispy bacon.” You simply line one or two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper, arrange the bacon on top, and bake at 400°F until it is crisped to your liking.

Do restaurants cook bacon in the oven? ›

Restaurants use this same method for cooking bacon as in this recipe. It would be too difficult to keep up with all those orders and get food out on time. Cooking bacon in the oven frees up the stovetop and lets you focus your attention on the rest of your meal.

Cooking bacon in the oven gives you perfectly crispy slices without any flipping or fussing, and the cleanup is superspeedy. It's also the best way to make bacon for a crowd. You can cook the bacon directly on aluminum foil-lined baking sheets or on a wire rack set on top of the baking sheets.