PUTTING THE SIZZLE IN PRE-COOKED BACON: New technology allows processors to make pre-cooked bacon look more like its 'home-cooked' counterpart.

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Cooking bacon in a spiral convection oven provides compelling advantages over linear microwave ovens, creating products that look and taste like they were pan-fried by consumers at home.The world's appetite for bacon seems insatiable. It's hard to believe that this versatile favorite, featured in sandwiches, sauces, stews, condiments and myriad of other food items, was at one time primarily a breakfast side dish.Internationally, the burgeoning demand for sliced bacon began several years ago, when it became highly popular as a sandwich item in the U.K. The challenge of producing the rapidly growing volume was at that time met by continuous cooking in linear convection ovens.However, as the demand for bacon continued to expand, processors soon adopted newer, faster technologies for processing in high volumes - the linear microwave oven.Although it had some drawbacks in terms of the taste and appearance of finished products, this system produced the required volume, and has remained prevalent until now.