A co-worker with a HUGE family shared this secret with me, and I've been using it ever since. I've since started lining the pan with aluminum foil, them I make a folded fan type support out of aluminum foil and the bacon sits on top of it. All the grease drains away from the bacon. When it's done cooking I put it outside to gel. (Hey, living in the frozen north should be good for something.) After everything's done, the starving hordes have been fed and gifted and gone home I simply fold it all up and "Presto!', the pans are done!

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