This Rule-Breaking Bacon Cooking Trick Guarantees Perfectly Crispy Bacon Every Time (2024)

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This Rule-Breaking Bacon Cooking Trick Guarantees Perfectly Crispy Bacon Every Time? ›

Stirring allows the bacon fat to render more evenly and slowly for perfectly crispy bacon. Because you don't need to lay out the strips in a single layer, you can cook more bacon at a time instead of working in batches. This method works best with bacon that isn't super thick-cut because it curls up more easily.

Billionaire bacon is a spicy variation of a candied version made popular by Snoop Dogg's cookbook, From Crook to Cook. How to make Snoop Dogg's bacon? Mix brown sugar, red pepper flakes, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and paprika and rub it over thick-cut bacon. Then, bake it on a wire rack until crispy.

If you are doing it in a frying pan, cook it at a lower heat and keep a lid on the pan. To make bacon not crispy, cook it on low heat for a longer period of time. This will allow the fat to slowly render out, creating a softer, more chewy texture.

Snoop Dogg's friendship with Martha Stewart has delighted fans for years, but the rapper recently revealed that another celebrity chef helped hone his kitchen skills. And that chef is the one and only Gordon Ramsay. "People didn't think I could cook," Snoop Dogg told The Mirror's Halina Watts in a recent interview.

Place your bacon in an even layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Place in the cold oven then set the heat to 425 degrees. This renders the fat, giving you that melt in your mouth crispy bacon. Check the bacon after 15 minutes, mine gets just the way I like it after exactly 20 minutes.

You take strips of bacon and place them on a baking sheet, then sprinkle all-purpose flour on top and bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 to 25 minutes. I was surprised to find out how great this worked. The flour definitely helped to give the bacon a crispier texture and nicer color than the other methods I tried.

Tried and true, this is the way I learned to cook bacon: Lay the strips in a cold skillet, place over medium-low to medium heat, flip and fry until you reach your desired doneness and then transfer to a plate lined with paper towels to drain.

Once you open that package, bacon's shelf life shortens whether you cook it or not. Raw bacon in a package that has been opened and re-sealed will last up to a week in the fridge, and cooked bacon will last four to five days if it's properly stored. You can also store bacon in the freezer.

The general rule of food safety is to not let raw meat or cooked food sit out for more than 2 hours, and that rule applies to uncooked or cooked bacon. It's wise to be careful with uncooked pork products since they can harbor and grow bacterial pathogens like salmonella and trichinosis.

They cook it the best way possible, on a sheet pan in the oven. The bonus is while it takes longer to make this way, you can make more at once, the pieces are more or less flat and they come out crispy. Or they throw it in the deep fryer once it's done.

How do you make the best crispy bacon? ›

Fry on a medium-low heat for 10-15 mins until golden and super-crispy. Check the bacon halfway through cooking – increase the heat slightly if there's lots of liquid in the pan, and flip the bacon over. Keep cooking until the bacon is uniformly golden and crisp.

Media estimates of what Snoop Dogg was paid vary considerably, with some sources speculating that he received more than £5m.

It's also known as the Million Dollar Bacon. We looked into why it's called that but we honestly couldn't find any origins. We think it's just because bacon is already delicious and the addition of the sweet and spicy flavor after you taste it, makes you say, “WOW! This tastes like a Million Bucks!”