Do Ya Like Bacon?

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2009/01/bacon_bacon.shtml, Bacon, Bacon. Who doesn't like bacon?

I copy Alton Brown of FoodNetwork/Good Eats fame. I line a quartersheet baking pan with tin foil and put cooke cooling racks on top. I preheat the oven to 350 - 400 degrees and lay an entire pound of bacon on the racks and throw it in the oven.

This method produces crispy bacon, beautiful clear bacon fat, and other than the cooling racks, no mess. (Well you really have to be good about how you line the tinfoil.) By putting the bacon on racks, the strips aren't stewing in their own fat either.

Plus, you have your stovetop free to all the other breakfast side dishes that go with bacon - eggs, pancakes, grits, whatever.