**POLL** Bacon Grease

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Eli

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So, how many of you save your bacon grease to use on other things later?

Mmmm... fries with half a tablespoon or so of grease from maple smoked bacon.. along with the regular tablespoon of butter and salt to season. ;)

Bake @ 450ºF for 20 mins.. teh yummay!

I think I can almost feel my arteries hardening.
 
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Insane3D

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Nah, unless I have a certain recipe I'm making that needs some bacon flavor. I normally let it solidify, then throw it in the trash.
 
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dighn

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Originally posted by: TheBDB

I know someone who used to eat butter. Seriously.
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are you the one who posted the nasty pics of his roommate snacking on some butter?
 

Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: TheBDB

I know someone who used to eat butter. Seriously.
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are you the one who posted the nasty pics of his roommate snacking on some butter?
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No, that was MartyMcfly83...that roommate was messed up. I'm his new one...I don't eat butter or cock. Lucky him.
 
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djheater

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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.
 
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Amused

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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.
 
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Shawn

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Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
I dont, but my parents did. I never quite figured out why...
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well my parents never did but my grandparents did.
 
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Amused

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Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
I dont, but my parents did. I never quite figured out why...
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Waste not, want not. Go price a can of Crisco.
 
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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.
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and people wonder why obesity is so rampant for the southeners
 
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Eli

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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.
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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...
 
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Alchemist99

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YEs I do! I keep it in the bedroom just in case! "Take 'um off. ... Hey, boy, you look just like a hog. ... Come on, piggy, give me a ride."... Looks like we got us a sow here, 'sted of a boar. ... I bet you can squeal like a pig." ...
 
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djheater

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