It's oven baconlicious time, everybody dance

March 7, 2011 8:52 AM

I need a metal rack/grid for cooking bacon in a pyrex container in an oven. Anyone have a good suggestion?

It's Mrs. ZombieApoc's birthday this month and she's said she specially wants a metal grate that would fit her 9"x13" pyrex container. I've looked around and haven't found what feels right, so I'm turning to the hive to see if someone else out there has had the same desire in the past.

we save the grease, so getting this setup would make life a little easier.

posted by zombieApoc to Food & Drink (10 answers total)

I have a roasting pan with a rack like that, and I managed to find something similar. They have other sizes; take the internal dimensions of the pan before ordering, of course.
posted by mkb at 8:56 AM on March 7, 2011

Best answer: Fantes carries a 12" x 7 5/8" [#6794] for $4.99 (you'll have to scroll down to it, they don't have anchors)...but it's out of stock right now. You could check with them and see if/when they'll have it available again.
posted by bcwinters at 9:18 AM on March 7, 2011

Best answer: You need a cooling rack. We use them in the over all the time for exactly the same purpose.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:18 AM on March 7, 2011 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: $2.82 wow!

thanks for the links so far, they're very helpful.

Also, if anyone has reasons why we should not use this method and instead just cook it in a roasting pan, please feel free to stress those opinions
posted by zombieApoc at 9:23 AM on March 7, 2011

Response by poster: > You need a cooling rack. We use them in the over all the time for exactly the same purpose.

do you find it makes more of a mess (grease all over)?
posted by zombieApoc at 9:24 AM on March 7, 2011

Using the rack works great for bacon- you still have to wash both the rack and the 9"x13", but it's not that more work than cleaning the 1 pan + stovetop that you'd have to clean if you did it on the stove. The grease ends up all in the bottom pan, it doesn't really splatter in the oven, at least not at 375F.

Also this is exactly the setup that you want when making Pig Candy. (Definitely line the bottom pan with foil or a silpat if you do this.)
posted by tangaroo at 9:30 AM on March 7, 2011

I think Thorzdad just meant that using the search term "cooling rack" might help you find more hits than "metal grate" (which is too generic) or "oven rack" (which generally refers to a different type of rack altogether, the kind that slots into the sides of your oven). You absolutely still have to put the rack inside a pan of some sort.
posted by bcwinters at 9:31 AM on March 7, 2011

Right. You put the cooling rack in the Pyrex pan. Sorry. I thought that would be obvious.
posted by Thorzdad at 10:11 AM on March 7, 2011

We use the oven method to cook bacon in our house, and it works very well. You get a lot of bacon all at one time, perfectly cooked and flattish.

We use metal baking sheets with a slight lip, and cookie cooling racks, very similar to what Thorzdad posted.
posted by mattybonez at 10:11 AM on March 7, 2011

Response by poster: thanks a ton for all the help! I've definitely have the target in sight now.

P.S. The Pig Candy comment made me laugh good. I have never heard that term before.
posted by zombieApoc at 11:27 AM on March 7, 2011