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This Hack Breaks Every Rule You've Ever Learned About Cooking—But It Actually Works
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4/10/2025
We've all been taught to pre-heat our pans before starting to cook-- but sometimes you might actually want to start from cold.
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For the crispiest bacon, you gotta start in a cold pan.
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When you're cooking really fatty foods, like bacon,
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you want to allow the fat to have time to render out before the meat cooks.
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With bacon, you've got all of these threads of fat interspersed throughout the protein.
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If you put the bacon into a hot pan, that protein will immediately contract
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and shrivel up and cook through faster and potentially burn
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before the fat has time to render out.
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If you start baking in a cold pan, though, the fat will have time to render out slowly,
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leaving the meat perfectly crisp with no big fat pockets.
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The cold pan technique is also great for bone-in skin on chicken thighs,
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duck breasts, and it even works great when you're sweating vegetables, like onions.
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