You know how they tell you it matters whether....

[LAS14]

.... you use a bright pan or a dark one? Well, today I used the oven method to cook bacon for the first time. I had an aluminum cookie sheet full of bacon and a dark cookie sheet. The dark sheet bacon cooked in about half the time of the aluminum sheet, even though they were switched from middle to top shelves in the middle.

So "they" are right.

How many of you have believed this advice from the get-go?

Of course I almost never bake. So it probably doesn't apply in many other situations.

[Duncanpup]

1. Call me next time

You have pancakes and bacon I’ll do the dishes afterwards

[LAS14]

2. :-) What's kept our marriage firm for 55 years is that hubby does the dishes!!!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I don't do bacon in the oven,

but several decades ago I couldn't find one of those disposable aluminum baking pans for turkey, a day or so before Thanksgiving. So I grudgingly paid $70.00 for a metal one with a rack. Oh, dear lord. The turkey baked much faster than in the aluminum pan and was vastly better.

So my advice to everyone is buy a real baking pan for your turkey. You won't regret it.