Cooking Bacon in a Pot.

Cooking Bacon in Pot is a great way to not splatter the grease all over your kitchen. The taste and texture of bacon cooked in its own rendered fat is so wonderful! 

The problem with cooking bacon in the oven is it can be really messy. The grease not only pops and splatters on your oven walls and window, but the fumes carry the grease all over your oven walls and window, building up over time. We built a brand-new house and installed a double oven. After about 6 months I noticed that the window was very hazy and had something built up on it. The bottom oven window was like new so I started to investigate. We came to the conclusion it had to be the bacon grease in the fumes from when we cooked bacon. At that time, we didn’t use our oven for much more than cooking bacon, so I knew it had to be the cause.  

No problem, that’s what they make the oven cleaning setting for right? Well after a few hours and our oven getting super-hot while smelling up the whole house it was time to check out the inside. Let’s just say besides a few ashes at the bottom of the oven and a now much higher electric bill, nothing else had changed. The side walls and window still had gunk on them.  I used a couple different cleaners after trying vinegar and backing soda with no luck. I had to use a green rough sponge to clean the sides and a razor blade to clean the glass. It was pretty tedious work to say the least. 

We love bacon and wanted to find a way to cook it besides the oven method. Cooking bacon in a skillet was very messy! The stovetop was covered in splattered grease. We found the solution. 

We saw Dr Ken Berry make bacon chips in a pot, so we tried it. There was no mess and the bacon cooked in its own fat. We wondered if you could cook half or even whole slices this way. Yes, you can. This was perfect!  

Watch our YouTube video on this page to get a good visual of this technique.   

Turn your Pot on Medium heat.  

Add 2 Table spoons of left over bacon grease to help keep bacon from sticking. If you don’t have any leftover bacon grease then you will need to start out on Medium Low heat until your bacon renders enough fat to keep it from sticking to the bottom. Then you can crank it to Medium. 

Now every Pot is going to cook different and are made from different materials. A heavy ceramic pot will cook much slower than a light thin-walled aluminum pot. You might have to crank the heat up a notch for heavier pots, while cranking down a notch for lighter thin aluminum pots, as they burn food easy. After a couple of times, you will get use to how your pot cooks and whether you know if you can walk away from it for a few minutes or not. 

You want to turn or flip the bacon about every 2 minutes until all the bacon starts cooking in its fat. You want to basically turn the bacon on the bottom to the top and the top to the bottom. As the bottom starts browning turn it. 

Once the bacon is cooked to your liking and doneness take it out with some tongs and lay on a plate or in an airtight container.  

This is a great time to save the leftover bacon grease for cooking other things. Bacon grease will keep unrefrigerated on your counter for months on end. It just needs to have the bits and pieces of bacon strained out of the grease and kept in an air tight container. You can buy very nice bacon grease storage containers and we will put some links at the bottom of the page of our recommendations. 

If you have a mason jar with a screw on lid that will work too. Just take a paper towel and fold it in half doubling the thickness. Lay the center of the paper towel in the mouth of the jar and push down a little to make an indentation, like a cup. Pour the cooled but still liquid bacon grease into the indention slowly and let it strain thru the paper towel. A coffee filter works well too, but paper towels are cheaper. You may have to stop a couple of times and let it catch up straining as it runs into the jar. When done throw away the paper towel and put the lid on. It can sit out on your counter for use anytime you would need oil or butter. It adds such a great flavor to other foods.  

Your bacon is ready to eat or you can store it in an air tight container for 2 weeks in the fridge or 3 months in the freezer. To reheat we suggest taking a few pieces and putting in an air fryer or in a skillet to reheat till warm. We use our bacon throughout the week in different recipes and other foods. Bacon, egg and cheese omelets are easy when the bacon is precooked and ready to crumble inside the omelet. We love them on Carnivore bread or biscuits. The possibilities are endless.