How to Make Crispy Microwave Bacon

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: 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 Mayer'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.
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   Step 2: 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. , Spattering is not as bad as other methods because the hot fat drips down off the cooking meat. , 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 about 7 minutes for 9 pieces. , When the popping slows down noticeably, it's time to take it out. ,,
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   Step 3: Cover your bacon with a paper towel to prevent spattering

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   Step 4: if you wish.

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   Step 5: Put your bacon in the microwave and set it to cook.

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   Step 6: Toward the end of cooking you will hear the sizzle slow

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   Step 7: just as in popping popcorn in the microwave.

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   Step 8: Carefully remove your bacon and place it on a dish to serve.

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   Step 9: Finished.

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