Bacon is my favorite food group.

It is so great.

I recall that Elvis is said to have consumed a good deal of bacon.

I often consume about a half to three quarters of a pound. Then I will fry up 4 eggs in the bacon fat. Yum! Save room for lunch, though! That's ham and cheese time!

I love this Niman Ranch bacon, thick sliced, real cold smoked, no funny ingredients added. This stuff is so good it ought to be illegal.

When you use no-nitite bacon, you have to consume it after you open it. It starts to smell off in a few days after opening, so best to eat it all at once. Okay, no prob.

I have tried all ways of cooking bacon. Since I will make the whole package at once, I tried putting it all in a big crowd, overlapping on a single skillet. Works but not well. Takes a long time, for thick sliced bacon.

The microwave: no, doesn't work well for more than a few slices, and not appealing even for those.

I hit on it. The oven. Preheat to 400 degrees. Put the baon in an oven-safe skillet overlapping, whatever. Put it in, set timer, give a half turn to the pan in about 8 minutes. For thick sliced it takes about 15 minutes or so and the bacon comes out just perfect. Much better than on the stove.

Do you love bacon as much as I do?