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Microwaved Bacon Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Thegoldminer / All my dishes 1 year ago Here is a tested way to make bacon in the microwave, you just need good old newspaper. It works, the bacon can be cooked to your exact specification. Virtually no grease left and salt content is very low. No special trays to clean, just throw away... More Prep:2m Cook:15m Servings:1	Thegoldmine
	no grease easy to make

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Slit the package

Cut in half, cooking

First layer

First cook, grease!

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Ready to transfer

Yucky grease

Second layering

Closed to cook

Second cooking

Ready for final

Final

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Ingredients

At least one pound of bacon, I like the thin sliced for the microwave.

Lots of newspaper.

I have weighed about every brand and they all weigh 3.5-4 ounces when cooked. From Armour to butcher shop bacon, they all are packed with water. 1 pound = 3.5 - 4 ounces of cooked bacon. Another fascinating fact!

Directions

It took a while to figure out how to cook in the microwave.

My microwave is 1100 watts so your time could be more or less.

My neighbor's daughter is a biologist and I had her take some cooked bacon

to the Davis University for testing. I told her the grease was traveling from the bacon to the newspaper. Then couldn't find any trace of ink from the paper. Another theory confirmed.

First, cut a slit in the package, and then cut the bacon in half. It just works better if they are half pieces.

Put the package on a section of paper and microwave about 3 minutes.

Cooking the bacon in the package is important. It starts getting the water out and the bacon won't stick to the paper when cooking.

Carefully remove the paper and bacon to the counter.

You should have another section of paper unfolded.

Using tongs, move each piece to the new paper until the section is filled.

Fold paper over and continue laying out the strips. It may take another section.

Put a couple of sections under paper with the bacon. This gives some support when removing cooked bacon.

Cook for 5 minutes.

Now the grease is really coming out. Pick up the outer corners so the grease doesn't spill when removing from the microwave.

Now you will see all the artery clogging, heart stopping grease. It's in the paper not your veins.

Again, new paper, new layout, same thing.

Cook another 5 minutes. Now it should be cooked but limp. For BLT I like it cooked a couple of more minutes so it is crispy. If not crispy, you are tearing the bacon when biting the sandwich.

If you are not going to eat it on a sandwich, well just cook it until it looks right to your tasting.

This method is easy, your stove is not splattered with grease, the grease is in the paper and the bacon is less salty. Frying in a pan concentrates the salt in every slice.

You can cook thin slice or regular using this method. When you're done, you throw away the paper, no pan to clean.

This is fat free bacon, eat lots.

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Comments

liezel 1 year ago said:
My sister-in-law is blind and she's always looking for things to make in the microwave. Sure she will love this! Thnx!

tnacndn 1 year ago said:
Sounds awesome JJ, thanks!!!!!
Gem

clbacon 1 year ago said:
MMMmmmmmm....bacon!

thegoldminer 1 year ago said:
Tnacndn, under directions, #3 is the answer. Gotta read the all the directions you nut. I have seen makin' Bacon. One can always cook some bacon in a pan to get grease and store it. Yes, bacon grease does impart needed flavors in some dishes.

crystalwaters 1 year ago said:
Have added this to the group, "Bacon, Nature's Candy". :-)

thegoldminer 1 year ago said:
Cool!!!!! I will check out the group. Guess we better put Baked Bacon on there also. JJ

tnacndn 1 year ago said:
Sorry JJ I didn't read the directions. I just noticed the newspaper and wondered :o) I will read all directions before asking anything next time. :o)
Gem

sunny 1 year ago said:
JJ - Everyone knows you're supposed to cook bacon in the George Forman Grill not the microwave!

thegoldminer 1 year ago said:
I like just tossing the paper, no clean up ;-). Cooked more bacon this morning and when I see and feel the weight of paper with all that grease, if not baking the bacon, then microwave is the way to go. You can cook a few pieces, it is very quick or a couple of pounds. Nuked a pac tonight, it will sit until tomorrow morning then paper, nuke and a BT tomorrow morning, 11-10-07, a hot cup of tea, the morning paper, a fire in the wood stove, the flames licking at the ising glass on the stove door, love Sunday mornings. JJ

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