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How long to cook bacon

Three things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 5:00

Pan or oven?

The oven is slower, hands-off, and gives flatter bacon.

Which cut?

How crisp?

How to tell without a timer

Onto paper now — it crisps further as it cools.

How it goes

  1. Side 1 of 2. Leave it alone — it releases when it has crusted.
  2. Side 2 of 2.
Every combination, as a table
Pan or oven?Which cut?How crisp?Time
Pan Streaky / American Chewy 3:30
Pan Streaky / American Crisp 5:00
Pan Streaky / American Shatteringly crisp 6:15
Pan Back / medallion Chewy 4:35
Pan Back / medallion Crisp 6:30
Pan Back / medallion Shatteringly crisp 8:15
Pan Thick cut Chewy 5:15
Pan Thick cut Crisp 7:30
Pan Thick cut Shatteringly crisp 9:30
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Streaky / American Chewy 10:30
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Streaky / American Crisp 15:00
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Streaky / American Shatteringly crisp 18:45
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Back / medallion Chewy 13:45
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Back / medallion Crisp 19:30
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Back / medallion Shatteringly crisp 24:30
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Thick cut Chewy 15:45
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Thick cut Crisp 22:30
Oven (200°C / 400°F) Thick cut Shatteringly crisp 28:15

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

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