Cooking bacon in the oven changed my life. I wish I were exaggerating about that. If it’s not too hot to heat up the oven for 15 minutes, you can spare yourself the spattering and the mess of the whole stove-top production of bacon, and you can free up your hands to do other important things in the kitchen, like cutting up the four hundredth grape your toddler has eaten that day. Adding maple syrup to the bacon-roasting process? Pure genius. Barefoot Contessa at Home, p. 225
