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do you save the bacon grease when you make bacon?

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I have a small stainless container with a lid and a strainer. Pour it through the strainer and put the lid back on it.

I've always kept it on the counter next to the stove. Never had a problem....that's the way my Grandmother kept it, too, except she kept it in an old coffee can.
 
I use it if I happen to fry something alongside the bacon but never save it. Fried egg does taste great with it.
 
usapatriot said:
Lie. There is vegetable fat and then there is animal fat.
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It goes further than that, does it not? There are many different types of oil/fat, and each behaves differently in response to heat and each has different taste and nutrition-related characteristics.

Anyway, I don't eat bacon frequently enough to make this worth doing. But if you do, it makes sense.
 
I love all the responses in this thread.

We used to fry stuff with it too.

great to see I am not alone in this.
 
Great thread with people who still know how to cook🙂

Yea eggs and fried potatoes with onions and garlic get the bacon grease treatment but I may expand my menu after reading this thread.
 
I save it and put it in the fridge. The bacon fats turns int a spreadable paste in the cold. I spread it on a piece of bread or a cracker, like butter. Or else I cook with it.
 
Key West said:
How is using oil to pan fry any different? fat is fat.
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Not entirely.

Pretty much every oil or fat has its own flavor. Each one has its own heating characteristics, and each one has different nutritional characteristics.

I read an article recently that said that bacon grease was healthier than butter.
 
I pour it on my tree out front.
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It would be silly not to keep it. It's also a key ingredient in certain dishes like corn bread and german potato salad. Pro tip for you CSA members: If you don't feel like braising greens for a couple of hours (or maybe you just got careless and ran out of ham hocks), you can pretty much boil any greens until they're soft (15-20 min) and the sautee them in bacon grease and win.
 
wow... I had no idea people reused it like that... I usually just soak it up with a napkin and toss it in the trash. Then again, I don't see much applications with it with my current diet.
 
Absolutely. There's a big jar of it on the counter and I admit I panic if it runs low. Sausage and bacon grease goes in there and use it constantly. Anything that goes in a frying pan gets the bacon grease. You can't make proper country fried steak without a ton of bacon grease, you essentially shallow fry it in the grease.

Also bacon grease is great for making gravy. Pro-tip: Use bacon grease in your cornbread and put bacon grease on the cast iron pan you make your cornbread in.
 
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spidey07 said:
Absolutely. There's a big jar of it on the counter and I admit I panic if it runs low. Sausage and bacon grease goes in there and use it constantly. Anything that goes in a frying pan gets the bacon grease. You can't make proper country fried steak without a ton of bacon grease, you essentially shallow fry it in the grease.

Also bacon grease is great for making gravy. Pro-tip: Use bacon grease in your cornbread and put bacon grease on the cast iron pan you make your cornbread in.
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so you just spoon it out into the pan like butter? how's that work? educate me
 
meltdown75 said:
so you just spoon it out into the pan like butter? how's that work? educate me
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You take a spoon or two or five of bacon grease and there's your "oil" for whatever you're cooking. Just put it on your hot pan.

It congeals into a very soft fat at room temperature and keeps at room temperature so it's just a jar sitting on the countertop ready to go. Whenever you make bacon or sausage just pour the grease into the jar. After a while you'll have this nice big awesome jar of bacon grease.

You can even get one of these, it's got a strainer on top.
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I did in the past but not in awhile now. And if you are giving to your animals please don't. My dad always took the bacon grease and poured it over the dry dog food. Yeah the animals love it but their vet won't at the next checkup.
 
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