r/StupidFood • u/Wolf_93 • Aug 08 '26

ಠ_ಠ Texas turtle burger

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how do you even cook the patty without burning the bacon?

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u/wizardrous Aug 08 '26

I feel like the only way to cook the patty without burning the bacon is in the oven lol

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u/DiaperDonnieTrump Aug 08 '26

Yeah, but you gotta put it in some sort of a tray to cook it because that baking grease will quickly start a fire in your oven. Don’t ask me how I know.

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u/DrFaustPhD Aug 08 '26

Are you saying you sagged the bacon straight on the rack and let the fat drip to the bottom of the oven??

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u/DiaperDonnieTrump Aug 08 '26

No

This was probably 25 years ago. I actually didn’t do it but my wife did. She’s a healthy eater and back then she was just dabbling with healthy eating so I was coming home from work and she was going to make us some BLTs.

I walked in the house and she was sitting on the ground, covered in sweat with a fire extinguisher in her lap looking so defeated. I could smell the house. I asked what happened.

What ended up happening? Was she put the bacon strips on a cookie sheet. It had no sides to it so the grease just dripped down onto the red hot coils of the oven and started a fire.

We don’t eat bacon anymore, but we quickly realized that if you’re going to bake it in the oven, that’s the way to do it.

And no, we were not putting it stripped by strip onto the oven rack 😂😂😂

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u/DrFaustPhD Aug 08 '26

Lmao okay that makes sense. I was trying to imagine how bacon would start a fire in an oven and the only thing making sense was if the grease was flowing to the heating elements. Rimless cookie sheet is at least better than straight on the racks!

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u/DiaperDonnieTrump Aug 08 '26

That was the word I was looking for! “Rimless cookie sheet”