Cooking bacon in the oven creates perfectly crispy, delicious bacon. It's also super easy, creates less mess, and allows you to multitask in the kitchen. Watch the video below to see how easy it is!
Recipe by Lisa Bryan on January 15, 2020
Prep time: PT5M
Cook time: PT15M
Total time: PT20M
Rating
4.93 stars (342 reviews)
Keywords
cooking bacon in the oven, how to cook bacon in the oven, oven baked bacon
Ingredients
8 bacon slices
Categories
Snack
Cuisine
American
Steps
Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a baking tray with parchment paper, then place the bacon side-by-side on the tray.
Cook the bacon for 10 to 20 minutes or until it's reached your desired level of crispiness. Make sure to check on it after about 10 minutes, as some ovens cook faster. Remove the tray from the oven and transfer the bacon with tongs to a paper towel-lined plate.
If you're rendering the bacon fat, line a fine mesh sieve with a paper towel. Then place the sieve over a glass storage container and pour the bacon fat from the sheet tray into the sieve. Cover the glass storage container and place it in the refrigerator for future cooking needs.
Nutitrion
Serving Size: 2 slices of bacon
Calories: 183 kcal
Carbohydrates: 1 g
Protein: 6 g
Fat: 17 g
Saturated Fat: 6 g
Trans Fat: 0.1 g
Cholesterol: 29 mg
Sodium: 291 mg
Unsaturated Fat: 11 g
Reviews
DR on 2025-06-21 (5 stars): What heavy duty baking sheets do you use?
Maria on 2025-06-15 (5 stars): My youngest son showed me how to do this a few years ago and I've never done it any other way!
If you want a sweet and savory bacon brush maple syrup and sprinkle with brown sugar and pepper before cooking
Dianne on 2025-06-08 (5 stars): Do I replace the parchment batches
Pamela on 2025-06-07 (5 stars): Can't believe I have never cooked Bacon this way before. Loved it and the strips are so uniform. Cooking in a pan they always come out curled up. The dogs don't care but I like a strip that lays on the sandwich or burger nicely. Thanks for sharing!
Anne Collins on 2025-05-17 (5 stars): Can’t wait to try.
AnneMarie on 2025-05-03 (5 stars): Wow! Perfectly cooked bacon with no messy stovetop to clean! I baked 5 slices at 400 for 15 minutes and they were perfectly crispy (which is how we like them).
Franny B on 2025-05-03 (5 stars): Oh my gosh!!!!! I have never cooked bacon in the oven before and now, thanks to you, I love it! It was so perfect, so much so that it’s the only way I will ever make it. Thank you again!
Frank Joseph Kar on 2025-05-02 (5 stars): Worked in the maintenance dept. at a 5 star hotel. Did a lot of work in the kitchens. One morning I saw them loading 3 ovens with big trays of bacon. I asked and it was 20 lbs. They did every morning for the whole day for the breakfast run, salads, sandwiches, and burgers. He said most was used up. Any leftovers were stored and used just for salads.
Patricia on 2025-04-27 (5 stars): Ty Lisa. I like your site. Was so easy to make bacon on the oven 👍😃
