Download Cooking Bacon In Water Images. Bacon cooked in water is more tender, but is it still crispy? After the water cooks off, the bacon continues to fry in the rendered fat.
It's not as weird as it sounds. I wasn't entirely happy with the results. The water evaporates and the solids that remain are full of bacon flavor.
This is extremely easy to do, first.
True to form, bacon shrinks down quite a bit when cooking. Cooking bacon in the oven creates perfectly crispy, delicious bacon. Is adding water the secret to perfectly crispy bacon? I did also state to soak the cured bacon in water for an hour after, however i initially did this for taste reason, i wonder how much is helps with the reduction of nitrates.