Perfect Bacon and Awesome Tips! Recipe

At a Food Blogger's Conference, I attended a few years ago, I sat through a food writing workshop. One of the adjectives that we were told to eliminate, when describing a recipe, is "awesome". I'm breaking that rule, because I'm sharing two awesome kitchen tips that I use for storing bacon, and for making awesome bacon.

Tip #1: My boys prefer thick-cut Applewood Smoked Bacon. Whenever I stock up, at Costco, I buy their bacon. When I arrive home, I roll out a long piece of plastic wrap. I set a slice of bacon on top, and roll it over once, then add another slice and roll it over...well, you get the picture. What I end up with is a layer of individual slices, with plastic wrap. I put that rolled up bacon slices in to a Zip Loc…