What I Learned Today

Several years ago my aunt showed me how to cook bacon quickly and easily in the oven.  With many bacon lovers in the house, this saves me gobs of time as I can lay out a couple of packages of bacon and have the whole shebang ready in about 20 minutes.  Without all the splattered grease.

BLTs were on the lunch menu this afternoon and we were expecting 2 guest.  This calls for even more bacon than I usually prepare.  I filled a second pan with strips of the salty stuff. After about 20 minutes I learned that the same bacon, baked in separate metal and glass pans, will cook at different rates. 

My advice - judge the doneness of your meat by the progress of the metal pan not the glass pan. To wit: