This is a tip from America’s Test Kitchen
Rather than cooking bacon in a hot skillet, where some pieces are overcooked and others are rubbery, try this:
- Put bacon in the bottom of your skillet
- Add water just to cover
- Turn the heat up to high
- When the water starts to boil, reduce the heat to medium
- Boil off all of the water
- When the water is gone, reduce the heat to medium low
- When the bacon is fully cooked you will see your bacon in just a bit of grease
- Remove and blot the bacon
- This should have a nice bite to it, be crisp yet chewy
