Breakfast: Bacon
Source of Recipe
Cooking for Graduate Students & Other Beginning Kitchen Dwellers (James W. Cooper)
Recipe Link: http://wywahoos.org/wahoos/cookbook/cover.htm
To fry bacon, place frying pan on high heat and put in strips of bacon. Turn the heat down to medium and cook until brown on one side. Then turn and cook for a minute to two on he second side. Drain an paper towels and keep warm on a plate while you make eggs.
Bacon these days is cured in brine instead of dry salt, and thus will always have some entrained moisture, which will cause it to spatter. Cook at a moderate temperature and raise it as the water evaporates. Plan on washing your stove.
Microwaved Bacon
You can also cook bacon quite effecively in a microwave. The advantage is that it doesn't dirty a pan. The disadvantages are that it may spatter the insides of your microwave oven and that the bacon fat is not then available for frying eggs. It also is usually tougher cooked this way.
To cook bacon in a microwave, place it on a paper towel on a ridges dish or paper plate and cover with another sheet of paper towel. Cook at high power for 2 to 3 minutes. Discard the towels and serve with eggs or pancakes.
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