How should I get rid of a can of bacon grease?

[Jeff7]

lemon party

Goddammit that's your solution to everything.

Don't mind IronWing... Someone he got out from his cage again.

Must be all that slick bacon grease.

 

[clamum]

Sorry. I missed step 6. You need to chase the grease down with very low viscosity oil which will keep it flowing through the pipes. If you change your own car oil this is a great time to use it. If not a quart of oil is not at all expensive - $2-3 for conventional.

LOL. Or instead of all that bullshit and the possibility of clogging a drain at some point, you could just cool the thing down in the refrigerator, then put it in a plastic bag, and throw it away.

I use a plastic garbage bag from Walmart or whereever to put in raw leftovers or peelings if I'm not planning on taking my garbage out for awhile. Then I just take that out to the dumpster rather than throwing it in my kitchen garbage and having it stink.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Bake bacon, pour grease in can.

What to do to dispose of it?

Pouring it in a drain seems a good way to totally block the drain.

Dumping the can in the trash would be very messy.

Dumping it on the ground? yuck.

Is there any better way to dispose of it than buy some sealed containers for the trash?

(The 'cook with it' option I'm not interested in.

Even if I were, it's way past that option).

We heat the bacon grease, mix in rolled corn/bird seed/what- ever, pour it in a wax paper lined pan and make winter bird feeder bricks. Store the extra in the freezer.

 

[LevelSea]

It's a sin to throw it away. One of God's creatures had to die so you could enjoy its sweet, delicate flavor.

 

[sdifox]

Mix it into a vegan salad.

 

[WelshBloke]

I thought this was normal. You fry the bacon, remove the bacon from the pan and then fry the eggs in the grease. Bonus points for spooning the grease over the eggs while they're cooking.

Then fry some bread in any fat left over to serve the eggs on.

I usually run out of fat at that point and need to add some more.

 

[mvbighead]

I would say I rod my own drains - but I've never needed to. So enjoy your wasted cans, bottles, and whatever else you toss your grease away in. Those industries send their thanks.

This baffles me. It has to be trolling...

Seriously, I throw away I don't know how many used containers of whatever. So filling a container with bacon grease to throw away... ose nose... I just made a disposable item useful for disposing of another item.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I can never save up enough bacon grease to even consider throwing it away. It has too many uses. I suppose the majority becomes bacon roux for thickening soups or sauces. Bacon is about 90 percent fat, why would you throw away 90 percent of what you paid for?

 

[tcsenter]

I can never save up enough bacon grease to even consider throwing it away. It has too many uses.

We create more leftover bacon grease than we use and we use it often. Eventually we throw the oldest away because it gets begins to develop a wonky taste. It doesn't keep well forever, even in the fridge.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

We create more leftover bacon grease than we use and we use it often. Eventually we throw the oldest away because it gets begins to develop a wonky taste. It doesn't keep well forever, even in the fridge.

You don't want to keep it in the fridge due to the humidity hastening rancidity. It will last longer on the stove or in the feezer. I use it for vegetables, starches, baked goods, grits, soups and stews. I'm always running out.

 

[IronWing]

Goddammit that's your solution to everything.

You never turn down the offer.

 

[Imp]

People seem to like seasoning cast iron pans with it...

 

[zinfamous]

Apply liberally to the tailpipe of your Nemesis' car?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Straight in the trash, no need to do anything else or put it in something. It will solidify at room temp anyway.

 

[IronWing]

Straight in the trash, no need to do anything else or put it in something. It will solidify at room temp anyway.

In Timmins, nitrogen solidifies at room temperature.

 

[zCypher]

am i the only one who uses bacon grease for making sure scrambled eggs doesn't stick and to add flavour?

This. I've never had the concern of needing to dispose of too much bacon grease. Inject that sweet sweet grease straight into your veins otherwise.

 

[TallBill]

Drink it.

 

[JamesV]

Unless you are eating bacon everyday (hope you have your will setup), the posters that recommend saving it have your answer.

Pour it through a strainer into a mason jar, and use it the next time you need oil, margarine or butter.

It's the added mess of cleaning a strainer, but a pound of fatty bacon's dripping is probably equal to a $2 margarine box. But, I'm frugal so I don't throw money away; not knocking your values.

 

[pete6032]

If you say the word "bacon" with a Jamaican accent, it sounds like a British person saying "beer can."

 

[MarkXIX]

You make popcorn with it, that's what you do with it!

 

[JasonCoder]

Some people in here seriously need to be on Lipitor.

 

[master_shake_]

Some people in here seriously need to be on Lipitor.

nope!

 

[IronWing]

nope!

We need to rewrite Hansel and Gretel for the modern age.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Here's a fun one, if you go on paleo diet, bacon, and fats in general are good for you and doctors don't know what they are talking about. So every time you eat bacon just pretend to be on paleo diet for that moment. Your heart will be fiiiiine.

 

[Raduque]

A straw. 'Murica!