Read our tips for grilling bacon below and start a new backyard tradition.
Bacon explosion on gas grill.
Repeat with remaining bacon until all 10 strips are tightly woven.
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The be will cook with the ambient temps trapped by the lid of your grill.
For one thing always err on the side of thicker bacon slabs.
Place the bacon explosion on the grates over the drip pan.
Remember moderation is the key when eating a bacon explosion.
You will end up with charred bacon or worse bacon ash.
It s quite gorgeous and unlike stove top bacon.
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The thin ones may be fine for other dishes but this bacon explosion recipe depends on sturdier strips to hold everything neatly together.
That fateful year the meat lover genius at bbq addicts brought us the original bacon explosion it went viral a month or so later when the bbq addicts across america found a tail gater s dream.
Your smoker will pump extra flavor into the hot bacon explosion but you can still buy bacon already infused with other ingredients.
Bacon grease will drip down and catch fire.
Cook for an additional 3 to 5 minutes or until golden and crispy.
An idea pops into your head if you cook bacon to go on those burgers you ll be remembered as the best host and possibly a grill master.
Open the grill and use tongs to turn the bacon over.
Evenly spread sausage on top of bacon lattice pressing to outer edges.
Place remaining bacon in a frying pan and cook until crisp.
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But you can t just throw strips of bacon on a hot grill.
This is called indirect heat.
As it cooks sprinkle bacon weave with 1 tablespoon barbecue rub.
Done correctly grilled bacon is smoky delicious and just the right amount of crispy.
Preheat smoker or grill to 225 f.
If using a remote temperature meter insert the probe into the center of the meat.
Just make sure not to grill over direct heat.
That will create dramatic flare ups as the bacon fat renders.
You may want to do this to avoid saturating the entire house with that bacon.
Bacon wrapped with pork and then wrapped with more bacon.
You decide to throw the bacon directly onto the grill grates because you don t want to go through the hassle of cooking the bacon inside the house.
If you re using a gas grill and want to use grilling pellets either use a smoker box or make these easy aluminum smoking pouches.
Take a moment and be amazed at the color.
