How to Cook Curly Bacon in the Oven

Equipment Needed

• Baking Sheet
• An oven-safe baking rack
• Aluminum foil

Step by Step Directions for Oven-Cooked Wavy Bacon

Here’s how to make groovy, squiggly bacon that looks great and tastes even better.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 C) and line a baking pan with foil. Tear off a sheet of foil about 3 inches longer than the long edge of the baking sheet and cut it in 3 long strips. Use your hands to gently crush and shape the strips to make three long snakes, like this:

Now lay the bacon on the pan, shaping the bacon gently around the foil pieces. It’s easiest if you use one bacon slice on each end to anchor the foil.

Now you can arrange the rest of the bacon slices on the pan.

Pop the pan in the preheated oven and bake it. Your baking time will depend on the thickness of your bacon. Regular sliced bacon should be done in 15 to 20 minutes.

Here in the BENSA test kitchen, we used Wright’s thick-sliced hickory smoked bacon.

Our baking time was about 28 minutes. Here’s how it looked in the pan:

Peek on the bacon about halfway through cooking. If the ends of your bacon strips are starting to overcook, just cover them with a strip of foil to prevent over-browning. Your bacon will be perfect!

Let’s get cooking! Here’s the recipe for Curly Bacon:

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