| How to Grill Bacon Nov 3rd 2012, 08:00 Bacon is one of the most versatile and simple cuts of meat available. It is cheap and flavorful, and can be utilized in a variety of ways. You can fry it in a pan, bake it in the oven, or render the fat for use in another dish. All of those methods, however, have one drawback in common: they can leave a lingering smell and a layer of grease all over your kitchen. As an alternative, consider cooking bacon on a grill. Learning how to grill bacon is a matter of following the following steps. - Purchase your bacon. When buying bacon specifically for grilling, look for the thickest cut you can find. Thick slices of bacon are easier to handle on the grill, as thinner slices pose a risk of falling through the grates or burning onto them.
- Light the grill. Add the coals and heat the grill as you normally would. Before cooking, however, you need to offset the coals. Remove the grill grate and push all the coals to 1 side of the grill. This will create both a hotter side and a cooler side. Replace the grate.
- Oil the grill grate. The best way to oil a grill grate is by grabbing a rolled-up towel in a pair of tongs, dipping the towel into some vegetable oil, and rubbing the oil across the grates. As an alternative, you could quickly rub a piece of the bacon across the grates.
- Place the bacon onto the grill. When you're ready to cook, place the strips of bacon onto the cool side of the grill, which is the side with no coals underneath. As the bacon cooks, the fat will render and drip down into the grill. If you cook the bacon on high heat over coals, this will lead to massive flare-ups as the bacon fat ignites. To avoid this, cook using only indirect heat. The bacon fat will still drip down into the grill, but if there are no coals underneath, flare-ups will be minimal.
- Continue cooking the bacon. Turn the bacon every 5 minutes or so, replacing the grill's lid between each turn. Cooking times will vary widely depending on the temperature of the grill and the thickness of the bacon strips, but should be no more than 20 minutes.
- Remove the bacon from the grill. When the bacon is done, remove it from the grill and place it onto a plate lined with several layers of paper towels. Allow the paper towels to absorb some of the excess fat, and then serve the bacon as desired.
- If you have a drip tray for your grill, consider using it to catch the bacon fat as it renders. This will reduce flare-ups.
- If using a propane grill to grill bacon, use only low to medium-low heat settings to avoid flare-ups.
Edit Things You'll Need - Thick-cut bacon
- Charcoal grill
- Charcoal
- Lighter fluid
- Matches
- Tongs
- Towel
- Vegetable oil
- Plate
- Paper towels
- Drip tray (optional)
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