the bacon wars

[Sara Noel]

Ok not really, but Gabe is the type to cook perfect bacon. That bacon is truly perfect. I was always the type to just toss it into a skillet and who cares how it looked as long as it cooked. lol This of course drove the perfect bacon man insane, so he's in charge of bacon. (muwhahaha, this principle can be applied to many areas)

How do you cook your bacon? And what do you do with the grease?

[Emerald_Mommy]

I like my bacon to still be a bit chewy - not fried to a crisp at any rate. I cook Philip's for longer because he likes the nearly charred stuff.

And I save bacon grease (in a jar in my fridge) for cooking beans and other things.

[JerryG]

mine cooked on a cold cast iron then slowly heated up and yep, I save my grease too.

If it's just me, I'll nuke it and toss the paper towels.

[Sara Noel]

Perfectly flat strips?

[ravenmoonmother]

My OH likes the grease on bread because its like dripping, but only since moving to the UK, He had never tried it in CA.

[pkellyc]

Flat and crisp, in a row, over medium heat. I don't save the grease at all.

[betharoo0]

Microwave for fast easy BLT's!
thrown in cast iron skillet when Iam feelin' little house on the Prarie!

[Radish4ever]

I just cook it in the skillet till it looks done.... lol I'm a "is it cooked thoroughly?"-phobe, so it's almost always really crispy. LOL
I have never saved the grease. I don't use oil in most of my cooking, so I have no need for it

[PrairieRose]

I like perfectly flat bacon....or as close as you can get without using a press for it. Gripey is the bacon man here and he cooks it just right. I like mine almost crisp but not completely. We save the grease but don't use it, or almost never. It's very good in grean beans and red beans though

[kittykatstrong]

I use turkey bacon because it id cheaper and it has hardly any extra grease with it.

I love my bacon very crisp.

Katy

[Missy]

i like it flat but i never cook it that way, mine always curls up, bends, twists. i like it crispy, but eat it any way. dh likes it cooked but pre-crispy

[jettsmom]

I've started baking mine in the oven. It stay pretty flat. No splatters. I cook it at 350* for however long it takes. It's usually still pretty chewing, but done. I guess if I cooked it a little longer it could be crisper, but that's how we like it. I throw out my grease unless I'm making something else that calls for the bacon grease.

[GMA21]

I just lay them in a skillet until they are a little crispy and I put the grease in a used can & toss it when it hardens.

[Neeley]

For DH and the kids it really doesn't matter how it looks. I just throw it on the skillet and cook it. They love the smell of bacon in the morning and will eat it no matter what.

I do not eat meat, so it doesn't matter to me what it looks like either - lol.

As far as the grease, it gets thrown out. I do not reuse bacon grease, I do not reuse cooking oil. It all just gets tossed.

[starsapphire]

I lay it out flat on a cookie sheet and bake it til its crispy. I throw out the grease.

Haven't cooked bacon in awhile because we are on a diet.