Bacon Grease

[cnelk]

Bacon Grease

I have chickens and of course you gotta have bacon with fresh eggs.

For those that eat bacon, what do you do with the grease?

Render it? Have any use for it?

 

[WeiserBucks]

I save it in a coffee can and dump it on the dogs food once in a while to spoil them.

 

[Billy Goat]

Back in the day, made grease bread.

Toast, we had a George Foreman grill that drained the grease off. Dumped that grease trap onto toast.

Delicious.



Now, I just save it in a jar for stuff I might pan fry later in the week.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

I cook the eggs second so they soak up the bacon grease.

 

[timmymac24]

bottle it and sell it saw a smallish container at Ace Hardware for $9 last weekend amazing

 

[clarito]

I save it in a coffee can and dump it on the dogs food once in a while to spoil them.

This is what I do. I keep it in the freezer and also use it to make cornbread, bait for mousetraps, general purpose cooking grease if I want that flavor etc.

 

[TaperPin]

A little off the topic, but a little old lady who lived in her house since 1940 with her family, then sister once pops died, cooks bacon every day and rinses it down the drain. When we were remodeling the place, a big Y in her drain where the kitchen joins the bathroom waste line had to be replaced - elbows are famous for getting crud built up so it was the perfect example of what bacon grease does down the drain.

Nothing.

In 60 years of rinsing bacon grease every day, the pipes looked clean. lol

 

[sbaker0029]

I keep it in Mason jars to use for cooking and I've even used a big glob of it to help start a fire lol.

Put a piece of cheese cloth under the ring without lid to filter all the little pieces out.
Grease/fat/tallow alone won't spoil or go bad.
You can save a jar practically forever like that, especially if you actually want to can it.

 

[menhaden_man]

Put a napkin or paper towel on mouth of a pint mason jar, filer out the meat, cap it and put it in the fridge.

We use it for lots of things but probably most often adding it to deer burger when making tacos and such. Sometimes we cook a few pounds just to get the grease.

 

[clarito]

A little off the topic, but a little old lady who lived in her house since 1940 with her family, then sister once pops died, cooks bacon every day and rinses it down the drain. When we were remodeling the place, a big Y in her drain where the kitchen joins the bathroom waste line had to be replaced - elbows are famous for getting crud built up so it was the perfect example of what bacon grease does down the drain.

Nothing.

In 60 years of rinsing bacon grease every day, the pipes looked clean. lol

That's hilarious

 

[Tahoe1305]

We save it in the freezer. When it’s time to grind up venison for burgers we add a few scoops. Taste yummy.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

I like the idea of saving for burgers.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Save it and use it for frying schnitzel.

 

[Nickofthewoods]

I save it in a coffee can and dump it on the dogs food once in a while to spoil them.

Used to do this regularly for a black lab I once had that was always skinny and had trouble gaining weight. My new black lab would become a pork chop if I gave him regular bacon grease but it is an occasional treat over his food.

If you put a few tablespoons in the bottom of the pot when you saute onions for green chile or stews it takes it to the next level.

 

[mike.adams.467]

Fry potatoes in it. My grandmother used it in many dishes. I remember her putting a tablespoon of it in her home grown green beans for flavoring.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

I pour it through a tea strainer or paper towel into a canning jar and save it in the fridge to grease skillets and saute/pan-fry veggies.

 

[clarito]

I pour it through a tea strainer or paper towel into a canning jar and save it in the fridge to grease skillets and saute/pan-fry veggies.

This is a great tip, if you strain it it definitely lasts longer

 

[packer58]

Fry potatoes in it. My grandmother used it in many dishes. I remember her putting a tablespoon of it in her home grown green beans for flavoring.

Yep, bacon / green bean stir fry is some good stuff ......

 

[Fordguy]

The old timers at a standardbred farm where I worked as a kid always kept a jar of bacon grease on hand to dress hobble burns on the horses. They healed and calloused surprisingly fast.

 

[flathead#2]

coat a cast iron pan with it before making cornbread.
use it cooking dried beans.
and of course, cook the eggs in it.