Possible to make your own pre-cooked bacon?

[Kaido]

Bacon seems to take forever to cook in the morning. I recently tried some pre-cooked bacon and it was pretty good and it got me to thinking: is it possible to cook a bunch and then keep it in the fridge or freezer for future consumption? I don't know if the pre-cooked stuff from the store has some preservatives in it or what, but it'd be awfully handy to just cook a bunch up and then store it.

 

[sandorski]

Umm, you have to ask?

"Pre-Cooked" = Bacon + Cooking + (Storing for later use)

 

[needalife]

pre-cooked or non pre-cooked, they both got preservatives unless you get it from the local butcher or organic store...

 

[kranky]

3 minutes in the microwave is too long?

 

[mrrman]

Bacon is the fastest thing to cook....u must be rushed all the time lol

 

[Homerboy]

Yeah we often do this. Cook up a whole pound/pack/whatever for a breakfast on the weekend. Then just wrap the remaining pieces in a paper towel and place in zip-lock bag and toss in fridge. Then we re-use on sandwiches or a quick warm-up for breakfast during the week. Works fine.

Edit: ALL HAIL BACON

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I don't know about you, but I've been up at 1AM thinking: "Man, I could really use bacon, but I don't want to clean a pan." bacon++

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: kranky
3 minutes in the microwave is too long?

you much have 1 hell of a microwave because it takes alot longer then that in mine, and mine is nice 3 CUFT 1000W

 

[Fritzo]

Get a bacon press. It's a heavy cast iron weight you put on the bacon while frying. Over high heat, it should only take about 2-4 minutes.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Get a bacon press. It's a heavy cast iron weight you put on the bacon while frying. Over high heat, it should only take about 2-4 minutes.

nothing is worse than cooking bacon inside and stinking up the joint for 2 days.
I grill ours year round.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Bake your bacon in the oven (Alton Brown has an episode on how to do that). The oven contains the grease and makes bacon that is nice and flat instead of wrinkled and jumbled up. Makes for awesome bacon.

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Get a bacon press. It's a heavy cast iron weight you put on the bacon while frying. Over high heat, it should only take about 2-4 minutes.

nothing is better than cooking bacon inside and being able to smell sweet sweet bacon for 2 days.
I hang bacon from my car's rear view mirror.

fixed

 

[TwiceOver]

Great ideas all around in this tread. It's often nice to have extra bacon around for sandwiches or burgers and what not.

The only thing that makes bacon better is to wrap it in bacon.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Great ideas all around in this tread. It's often nice to have extra bacon around for sandwiches or burgers and what not.

The only thing that makes bacon better is to wrap it in bacon.

What about bacon wrapped butter?

 

[Engraver]

Bulk pre-cooked bacon :thumbsup:

 

[Mday]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Great ideas all around in this tread. It's often nice to have extra bacon around for sandwiches or burgers and what not.

The only thing that makes bacon better is to wrap it in bacon.

What about bacon wrapped butter?

butter wrapped heart attack?

 

[moshquerade]

did you really ask this question?

 

[MegaVovaN]

I don't get it, what people here be talking about?

This is what I do.
1. Put small amount of oil on the pan and heat it
2. Cut long stripes of bacon from grocery store in 3 or 4 pieces
3. Drop stripes on the pan
4. let them cook for like 25 sec - till they begin to curl up
5. Flip the pieces, another ~20 sec
6. Take pan off the stove and drop 3 eggs on there
7. Put back on the pan to cook the eggs
.....
9. Profit!

Entire process takes <5 minutes (not counting washing the dishes and the pan).

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Mday

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Great ideas all around in this tread. It's often nice to have extra bacon around for sandwiches or burgers and what not.

The only thing that makes bacon better is to wrap it in bacon.

What about bacon wrapped butter?

butter wrapped heart attack?

sweet sweet heart attack

 

[Chryso]

Do you have a George Foreman grill?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Chryso
Do you have a George Foreman grill?

He got rid of it after mistakingly cooking his foot on it.

 

[jdini76]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: kranky
3 minutes in the microwave is too long?

you much have 1 hell of a microwave because it takes alot longer then that in mine, and mine is nice 3 CUFT 1000W

He is right on 3 minutes (actually i think its more like 2 mins on high), but it is per strip you want to cook. so if you want to cook 6 pieces of bacon, it will take 12 minutes. Still not bad. I prefer using microwave for bacon.

Also OP, depending on the type of bacon you bought it could either be smoked or "cured" these are preserving processes. "Curing" is where it is salted in such a way to give it a natural preservative. Smoking is of course done with smoke. These were done in olden days before refridgeration. So, I would assume in today's arena it would allow it to last pretty long before spoiling. I can't comment on how long eactly, but I would feel comfortable with at least a week.

 

[MegaVovaN]

I had to cook my own, using abovementioned method. <5 mis.
Eating this now: Text

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
I don't get it, what people here be talking about?

This is what I do.
1. Put small amount of oil on the pan and heat it
2. Cut long stripes of bacon from grocery store in 3 or 4 pieces
3. Drop stripes on the pan
4. let them cook for like 25 sec - till they begin to curl up
5. Flip the pieces, another ~20 sec
6. Take pan off the stove and drop 3 eggs on there
7. Put back on the pan to cook the eggs
.....
9. Profit!

Entire process takes <5 minutes (not counting washing the dishes and the pan).

raw bacon is disgusting.

and why the hell are you adding oil? you just adversely affect the perfect flavor of the bacon

Originally posted by: jdini76

He is right on 3 minutes (actually i think its more like 2 mins on high), but it is per strip you want to cook. so if you want to cook 6 pieces of bacon, it will take 12 minutes. Still not bad. I prefer using microwave for bacon.

maybe if you want burnt bacon. 8 pieces takes about 8 minutes in my microwave, 6 pieces takes about 6, though 4 takes about 5.

 

[MegaVovaN]

The oil has no flavor, I think - I add it so my pan does not burn...gonna try without oil sometime.

Oh, I get so much fat cooked out of my bacon that I dump this fat in the sink.

How do you define RAW bacon? I could eat mine without cooking if I wanted to.

P.S. I burned some of my bacon in pic above, dammit!