BLT Tacos

Slight variation to the rimmed baking sheet, place parchment paper in the bottom of the sheet and place a cookie rack on top with the bacon on the rack. It cooks the bacon on all sides, the grease is trapped in the sheet below and the parchment paper removes the need to scour the sheet. The grease does not get on your oven, just the cookie sheet.. Enjoy

If you are feeling like this might be a little too much bacon try using a 50/50 blend of bacon and fish. Broiled snapper is very good, it works well with all the other taco fillings. Once the bacon is done and the oven is still hot set to broil and the fish will be flaky in a few short minutes.

Try 2 chipotle chilis from a can of chipotle in adobo sauce in the mayonaise instead.

I always cook my bacon in the oven. Line a rimmed baking sheet with heavy-duty foil for quick cleanup. Set oven at 400 and timer at 20 minutes; depending on thickness of bacon you'll have to turn each slice a couple of times and cook for another 5 to 10 minutes. Doesn't really splatter in oven -- let's put it this way: When I turn on the oven the next time, I don't smell bacon grease, so how bad could it be?

Instead of mayo and Cholula, try Mexican sour cream (crema agria ) with a chopped chipotle pepper and some of the adobo sauce (canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce). Super on all kinds of tacos.

Hello, I am a four generation Mexican American woman from Texas who loves to cook. Flour tortillas in my opinion works best in this recipe. A quick snack during winter is just to wrap a flour tortilla around a couple of strips of crisp bacon. Yum!

Recipe calls for corn tortillas, but photo clearly shows flour tortillas. Which should it be?

Also, these instructions are nonsensical: "Using the open flame from a stovetop gas burner (or in a skillet placed on an electric burner), warm and lightly char tortillas, 30 seconds to 1 minute per side." A minute per side over an open flame?? You'll burn the house down, corn or flour. A flour tortilla done over an open flame should be on the burner five seconds and flipped, usually 3-4 times. The whole heating process should take 20 seconds, tops. I do corn in the oven.

Love the idea of baking a large quantity of bacon in the oven - but what happens the next time you turn on the oven?? Does the bacon grease smoke/burn? or does it just mingle in with all of the other grease in the oven?

I find Tabasco is all heat and no flavour. There are many others to choose from. Currently using Frank's.

That's a flour tortilla in the photo (which I think would be better for this taco than corn, anyway).

This was so much better than I expected! Using juicy plump heirloom tomatoes was a great idea. I made my salsa w avocado diced onion and lots of lime juice and cilantro. So delicious!

delish with cholula mayo. bacon cooked faster than 15 min so keep an eye on the oven

Minor detail: spicy mayo should go first in the build

We've made this twice now and didn't even need to gussy up the tomatoes with jalepeno and cilantro! It is just plain soul satisfying and dead easy. (After cooking for my family for 35 years, I'm all about delicious and dead easy.) Make this and don't forget the avocado. Follow up with sliced fresh peaches, basil and balsamic and olive oil. Another DE.