How To Cook Fat-Free Bacon And Egg In The Microwave

Hi, I am Jennipher Marshall Jenkinson, chairman of the UK Microwave Technologies Association and also the author of the cookbook, Microwave Magic: The art of 21st century cooking. So what I have got here is an egg, some bacon and your bread back. The first thing I am going to cook is the bacon.

Now, bacon cooks perfectly in the microwave oven. One slice of bacon takes approximately one minute to cook. These are very thick slices, so I am going to take a little bit more.

Two slices won't double that, it will take about three minutes to cook these two slices of bacon. I have got them really crispy, so that all the fat has been absorbed. Now the fat is going to be absorbed by this kitchen paper.

So I have got this standard in a plate, two slices of bacon on it covered with some kitchen paper. And I am going to cook that in the oven for three minutes. I am going to see what that comes out like.

Now, I have said elsewhere that you can't actually fry in a microwave oven. But you can poach eggs beautifully. Now, I have got here a small dish and of course if you are poaching something, you need a little bit of water.

So I am going to just add a tablespoon of water into the bottom of my dish here. And I am going to break an egg into it and we are going to cook this for one minute with a lid half on it. Now, eggs cook beautifully but they give off an awful lot of steam.

In fact, four hundred times of the volume of the egg comes off in steam. So if you cover the dish totally with a lid, the lid would explode off and you get all the egg all over the oven. So if you cook with the lid half on, it allows all the steam to escape.

So we are going to cook this in the oven as soon as the bacon is finished. Then we got our bread back. Now, nothing is nicer than warm bread but the bread has already been cooked.

So all we want to do is warm it to reheat it. We are not recooking it. So, a bread back or any pastry or any bread based food you should never heat for more than 15 seconds in the microwave.

If the product starts to steam, you are actually make the product stale because all the moisture which is in the food is evaporating with of the steam. You just want the product to be warm, so we are going to cook that for no longer than 15 seconds. Now, this bacon's had three minutes, so we will see what it cooks like.

If we are going to cook it for any more, so that we can get a really crispy flavour, now there is still a little bit of moisture there on that bacon, still a little bit of fat. So I am going to put it back in the oven for another one minute just to complete its cooking. Now there is another full minute there.

We will see what it comes out like. Right, there's our bacon nice and crispy. So I am going to leave that covered on there for a moment.

We will put the egg in the oven as I say we are going to put the lid half on so it doesn't splatter. We will be just cooking that for one minute. Right, there's our egg, after one minute of cooking time.

There we are, see that's a perfectly poached egg. Now, before we do anything else, we have to put this into the oven for 15 seconds. This oven has actually a minimum of cook time of 30 seconds.

So we are just going to keep an eye on it and cook it for no longer than 15 seconds. As I say, we are not recooking the food, we are just warming it through. And that's only one thing to do, so 15 seconds.

That's it, that's perfect. So there's our back, lovely and warm. There's our bacon, we will top it with our poached egg.

And if anybody wants some, this is squirt of tomato ketchup to go with it. There we are, we have cooked all the fats out of the bacon. We poached our egg just in its own juice and we have warmed through the food.

So we have totally fat free bacon and egg back bread. .