So, tomorrow, I have to cook a huge ass breakfast for my family, and I was planning on just doing eggs and bacon, plus bagels and a fruit tray. However, I'm gonna need to cook a [censored] load of eggs... and bacon, and I'm just not sure how exactly I should go about doing this.

My question is, using a regular pan would probably take forever, and I don't feel like dirtying 4 pans and trying to juggle between them. I'm wondering if it's okay to use a sheet pan on the stovetop to cook the eggs and bacon. This would save a whole lot of time. Anyone know if this is okay?

It should be alright. Use lower heat, so you don't scorch the pan. Unless you're not worried about it. Use a non stick spray as well, or your eggs will be a mess.

I was planning on lining the pan with crumpled tinfoil to avoid sticking, but thanks, this should make my life a lot easier.

Let us know how it works out.

The bacon could reasonably be done in an oven. Put them on the grill with a sheet pan underneath to catch the grease and you will have great, crispy bacon. Saves you a lot of work flipping the bacon as well.

Wouldn't the grease from the bacon produce a lot of smoke in an oven?

I would suggest just dirtying two pans, 1 for bacon 1 for eggs

How are you preparing the eggs? I would advise doing a simple scrambled egg, you can do a lot of eggs at once in a single pan, and cooking in batches is perfectly fine, they shouldn't get anywhere near cold by the time you are done. Bacon is cooked quickest on the stove top, maybe 1 minute a side or less depending on how crispy you want it.

It's a shame I'm not at home or I'd give you the receipe for fluffy baked eggs. It's 14 eggs, a pound of bacon, and a little bit of pineapple and cottage cheese all mixed up and baked - not only is it ridiculously tasty but its an excellent way to cook a large amount of breakfast food at once. My wife and I have made it a few times for large groups and it's aways been a hit. If you're interested perhaps you can find it online.

I'm scrambling the eggs, with Churizo, so I'm not really going to have any problem cooking the eggs in batches in a large pan.

The problem is, I need to make a large amount of bacon, which is what I'm worried about. Call me crazy, but I usually just eat bacon straight out of the package, so I don't really know how to cook it properly, and I doubt I'll be able to cook more than around 6 or 7 strips at a time in the largest pan I have...

Someone did mention cooking the bacon in the oven, but I'm worried I'll smoke the kitchen up if I were to do that.

You can easily cook bacon in the oven, it just takes a while. Turn the oven to 400 or so, line a baking sheet with foil slap on the bacon and let it cook for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.


If you are having chorrizo why are you also having bacon? Not a bad thing but just curious as to why you need so much protein for breakfast. Id do potato O'Brian or hash with it.

I took my parents advice on what to cook, I didn't really conceptualize this meal. I just have to cook it. On second thought though, hash browns sound a lot easier to cook in large quantities.

Wow, after looking up a recipe on hashed browns they're actually super easy. I think I'm going to scrap the bacon... can anyone give me a rough approximation on how many pounds of potatoes I would need for enough hash browns to feed 12-16 people?

What does your recipe say? Id venture to say around 6lbs maybe more if they are big eaters.

Im a disaster when it comes to cooking, so no help from me, but



Raw bacon ? :sick:

I hate touching the stuff uncooked, never mind eat it

The recipe says one pound, which will yield 4 servings, but by today's standards, I doubt that 4 servings would feed 4 people. I'm just going to play it safe and get around 10 pounds of potatoes, considering they're cheap as hell and I'd rather have too much than too little.


Well bacon isn't raw, it's cured and smoked before packaging...
I just never thought that frying meat in a pool of it's own fat was very appetizing.

Just FYI, not every package that says "hickory smoked" means that its cooked

I was under the assumption that all bacon was cured and smoked before packaging? I thought the smoking process gave it that... bacon flavor.

My apologies, its dried bacon that needs to be cooked, not smoked

You could poach or boil the eggs instead.. Can do as many as your pan will hold

Put the bacon in the oven, on a wire rack, with a pan underneath the rack. . The grease will drip into the pan. Most bacon in the US is raw, it has been smoked to add flavor, but is not ready to eat from the package.
Use one pan to make the eggs.

Hash brown made from fresh potatoes: One large potato per person should be sufficient. I grate them, drain the potatoes in a sieve, press out the water, and use a little olive oil so they don't stick to the pan. Season with salt, pepper, and a little crumbled dried green onion.

Maybe bacon isn't always the same thing, but over here not all bacon is smoked: I'm not sure I care for it, personally. I find that grilling is my preferred means of cooking it, but that's another term that doesn't necessarily travel well since I understand that what Americans call a grill is what I'd call a barbecue: I mean the thing with the heat-source above the food being cooked. Anyway, it's a nice way of getting rid of much of the excess fat while it's cooking and leaving the remainder nice and crispy.

I think we call that "broiling".

Its not even the same cut of meat. Americans tend to eat "Belly Bacon", or Crispy Bacon. Here in the UK and Australia middle bacon is common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon

What is it Canadians eat?

Update: This actually ended up being a lot easier than I had expected after I scrapped the bacon, only took around an hour for total prep+cooking, and most of that time was spent staring blankly at the piles of food before me wondering exactly what the [censored] to do. Ended up with a lot of leftovers, I think that most of my family didn't really like the Churizo, because people didn't eat a lot of eggs. The hash browns basically saved me, thanks for the suggestion Wyatt

Basically did that for the hash browns, minus the crumbled onion. I assumed that when I was told I had to cook today (mom's birthday, btw), it meant I was going to be the only person making food, but most of my family brought a side dish, so I made way more food than I had too :dry:

Overall, I'm hoping I never have to cook food in the foreseeable future.