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19 Bacon Hacks You'll Wish You'd Learned A Whole Lot Sooner

Mmmmm... You're bacon me crazy, bacon.

1. The easiest way to cook bacon is in the oven (and it's equally delicious).

2. Want to quickly cook a WHOLE LOT MORE than a pound of bacon? Try this clever oven hack.

3. To find out if a package of bacon is mostly meat or mostly fat, turn it over and look at the window.

4. If you’re in a hurry, put bacon on a bowl on a plate and microwave it — the grease will roll down the sides of the bowl resulting in surprisingly crispy bacon!

5. You can also cook bacon in a waffle iron.

6. Have a sweetie who is sweet on bacon? Make them a bouquet of bacon roses!

7. Use bacon to reheat fast-food french fries so that they're crispy and delicious instead of soggy and gross.

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8. Make a bowl out of bacon. REPEAT: You can make a bowl out of bacon.

9. You can also turn bacon into a cup — like in this cheesy bacon egg cup.

10. Make a bacon weave so that your BLT, bacon burger, or breakfast sandwich has a taste of bacon in every bite.

11. Once you master the bacon weave, you can make BACON TACO SHELLS!!!

12. Want to make peeling bacon strips off the slab a whole lot easier? Wrap a rubber band or hair tie around the package and put it in the fridge.

13. Add some water to the pan for perfect, no-splatter cooking.

14. Craving onion rings but trying to eat low-carb? Use bacon instead of breading!

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15. Here's an amazingly easy way to make at-home bacon cinnamon rolls.

16. You can use leftover bacon fat to make seriously upgraded versions of all kinds of food, like this hot bacon salad dressing.

17. You can also use bacon fat to make unforgettable baconnaise.

18. Here's one more genius thing to do with bacon fat — use it to make bacon peanut caramel corn.

19. Not a meat eater? Use rice paper to make vegan bacon that actually tastes freaking amazing!