How Do You Make Crispy Microwave Bacon?
• Choose your favorite bacon. After experimenting with many types of bacon from nitrate free stuff found at the health food store, to smoked beef bacon, to real thick & fatty gourmet stuff, Oscar Myer’s 30% less fat Center Cut bacon seems to work best in a microwave. It seems to have more pink meat than most, so this should be a factor when you make your choice of what is available at your market. • Drape you bacon on your rack. For the Makin’ Bacon 9 slices cooks most evenly. When using a dish and bowl, carefully drape bacon around the bowl, like flower petals, keep touching and overlapping to a minimum or it will stick together. • Cover your bacon with a paper towel to prevent spattering, if you wish. Spattering is not as bad as other methods because the hot fat drips down off the cooking meat. • Put your bacon in the microwave and set it to cook. A rule of thumb is one minute for each piece of bacon you cook, 5 minutes for 5 pieces. Fattier bacon takes longer. Center cut bacon takes
