Overnight Bacon

Yes, you can cook bacon overnight in your HOTLOGIC® and have crispy bacon the next day. Usually, everyone who has tried cooking bacon says that it comes out floppy and unappealing. This is true when the raw bacon strips are sealed in a container and placed in the HOTLOGIC® for cooking. Because of this, nothing wrapped in raw bacon is an ideal choice to cook in a HOTLOGIC®. Let me show you how to cook bacon in a HOTLOGIC® and have it come out crispy.

Method to Use

The way you cook bacon is make a tray of aluminum foil to set directly on the heating plate. Then lay the pieces of bacon on it. Be careful to not puncture the aluminum foil. Otherwise, the bacon grease will leak out. I, also, lay a piece of parchment paper over top without touching the bacon. If the parchment touches the bacon, it tends to stick to the bacon. I am not certain that the parchment is necessary. I do it to keep any condensation that forms on the HOTLOGIC® lid from dripping onto the bacon.

The bacon is cooked for 8 hours or overnight. After one hour I checked the temperature of the bacon in the HOTLOGIC® Mini’s and found the bacon to be within a few degrees of the temperature of the heating plate, in the high 190’s°F. The aluminum foil is an extremely efficient heat conductor. Whenever I check the temperature of my HOTLOGIC® Mini heating plates, I find that they are typically around 200°F.

Thin and thick cut bacon cooked overnight in two HOTLOGIC® Mini's

HOTLOGIC® Max filled with bacon that was cooked overnight

If you are able to look closely at the picture of the bacon in my HOTLOGIC® XP Max, you may notice that the bacon on the lower left and on the top does not look to be as well-cooked as the rest. It is not. I took temperature readings and found that they reached 150°F to 170°F after about 1 hour. This does prove people’s belief that the HOTLOGIC® Max does not heat their food as fast as the HOTLOGIC® Mini. It cannot if the heating plate is not uniformly hot across the surface. If you find that your HOTLOGIC® Max has the same issue, you may wish to lay your bacon in a different pattern, so that each piece has a portion laying on a hotter section. By doing this, the heat may transfer from the hotter section to the warmer given enough time.

What Bacon is Best?

I tried thick cut and regular cut bacon. In the pictures the thick cut is on the lower left and the regular cut is on the right. In another test I cooked lower sodium bacon. No pictures are available of the low sodium bacon cooking.

All of the pieces were greasier that oven cooked or pan fried. The thicker cut did not have crunch, but it would work well in a breakfast sandwich. The regular cut had crunch. The lower sodium bacon has the best crunch of all of them. When my No. 1 Taste Tester was testing the results, I heard the crunch six feet away. The optimal crunch was probably due to it being an even thinner cut that regular cut bacon.