**POLL** Bacon Grease

[Eli]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Amused
No, but my mother did.

In fact, most people from the depression and war years did this.

Food tastes great when cooked in bacon grease. Makes for some great eggs and hash browns.

Ah. My dad probably learned it from his parents.

I don't do it a lot. It just gives some extra flavor kick to those things that it is appropriate for... like french fries.

My cousin cooks bacon in bacon grease. I find that excessive.

That is a bit much.. the bacon produces plenty of its own grease.. lol

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: djheater
That's the way I was raised. We used either leftover bacon grease or Crisco to cook about 80% of our food. The remaining percentage was garden fresh vegetables. I love southern cooking.

As a teen I moved to the north and eventually let go of the frying mania. I now use olive\canola\corn oil pretty much exclusively for cooking if I need oil, and generally I restrict how much I use.

and people wonder why obesity is so rampant for the southeners

Actually, this was standard practice in most homes all the way up to the 70s and for the last two centuries... and the obesity epidemic is less than 20 years old.

If anything, the END of the high fat diet spelled the begining of the obesity epidemic. The start of the epidemic directly correlates with the start of the low-fat craze.

 

[ThePresence]

I don't eat bacon, so I have no bacon grease.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Amused
No, but my mother did.

In fact, most people from the depression and war years did this.

Food tastes great when cooked in bacon grease. Makes for some great eggs and hash browns.

Ah. My dad probably learned it from his parents.

I don't do it a lot. It just gives some extra flavor kick to those things that it is appropriate for... like french fries.

It's probably better for you than the trans-fat laden sh!t they deep fry french fries in...

Ah yes! I forgot, my mom also made french fries and onion rings in the bacon grease. YUM!!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
rancid grease, no thank you

Rancid? It's not rancid.

It shouldn't really ever go bad unless your storage conditions suck. The bacon grease we have has been in the fridge in a Kerr pint jar for the last several years, it still looks and smells fresh.

It would be a good idea to put it into your storage container while still hot, though.