| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/14/2008 7:42:19 PM | This thread has become my train wreck..
never in my life, have I ever saved bacon grease, or eaten it with something else...
the only thing that even comes close to this, is after my dad cooked bacon, he would drain the fat into a used can, and after it cooled down, and congealed, he would THROW IT AWAY...
Do I eat bacon now??? every now and then.. but I cook it in the microwave, with paper towels to absorb the grease.. that I THROW out | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/14/2008 7:45:54 PM |
Honey, you make gravy for good ole Southern gravy biscuits with it, for Heaven's sake! First you make a roux using some of it in a skillet on medium heat and s-l-o-w-l-y adding a bit more and a bit more flour, stirring it with a fork the whole time. When it starts getting thick s-l-o-w-l-y, again, start adding milk and stirring it in with the fork so it blends and your mixture doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. You want to wind up with more flour and much more milk than you do bacon grease. Add black pepper to taste. If you do it right your wrist will get tired stirring and you'll probably get tired watching it, but in the end it will be well worth it. I RARELY ever make it, cause it's so good and so fattening, usually just making it when I have company, maybe a couple of times a year. But before you start the gravy go ahead and have your good old cat-heat biscuits made. You don't want to be distracted when you're making your gravy. Especially in the early stage.
I want you to make me some biscuits and gravy. I will wash all your dishes, wipe down the counters, alphabetize your pantry and mop your kitchen floor, for just one batch. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/14/2008 7:47:51 PM | Make lye soap - During pioneer times lard and lye were mixed together over an open fire, and stirred for hours with a long-handled paddle. It is said that when the paddle stuck straight up, the soap was ready. Lye soap was then poured into a metal pan and allowed to dry and harden; a process that could take from two weeks to one month. After the lye soap hardened, it was cut into smaller bars for everyday use. People used lye soap to clean everything from their faces to their laundry  | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/14/2008 9:31:30 PM | westernrose said:
If you intend on using it please refrigerate it or better yet freeze it.
If it goes rancid it is horrible and will make everyone sick.
Can't begin to relate how sick I got from being served some grease/fat that had been kept unrefrigerated by an ex-girlfriend's mother. She used it for near everything- from frying to greasing pans to "buttering" on a slab of bread for snacks. Wouldn't have been surprised if there wasn't some keeping the family car greased up too. I remember the coffee can sitting on the counter so that she had it right at hand. The GF and her family must have been immune because they never got sick, but WOW was I ever out of it for a week or two.
Now, I keep a small amount of rendered bacon fat in the freezer, maybe a 1/2 cup or so to use as an add-in for the rare time I fry up some potatoes or to add to dirty rice, or kasha, or latkes. I also keep a couple of cups worth of rendered chicken fat for cooking too. I render my own to control the salt and keep away from additives. Yes, even though I'm jewish (broken, but still...) PORK FAT RULES!! and thanks to good genetics and NOT dietary habits, my cholesterol level is low too. 
Other than that small amount for seasoning, any leftover bacon or other grease is added to a container with some minute oatmeal I bought by mistake, frozen and when the container if about 1/2 full tossed in the yard for the birds or rabbits. Back when I still had a couple of cats and a dog the beasties got the grease on their dry food- a rare treat for them, and they seemed none-the-worse for eating the stuff. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 9:11:16 AM | I never keep it. On rare occasion I have fried some potatoes or steak or eggs in that leftover in a pan but those times are very few and once in a blue moon.
If you get an asbestos wick I think you can burn it. Doesn't zippos still use asbestos wicks? The last few I bought had them. But it sure isn't going to light with just a spark if you've got fat loaded into it.
I've always wondered about those jerry candles that would burn all kinds of fats. What is involved there... a steel wick?
Remember the Steve McQueen movie where they dig the tunnel out of the POW camp? They light the tunnel with fat and little homemade jerry-rigged grease burning lamps made from spam cans or some kind of can.
I remember my parents kept a can by the sink to throw the leftover grease into but only so it wasn't dumped down the drain (and these days it'd surely melt pvc drains!) because it'd clog it.
Back when I still had a couple of cats and a dog the beasties got the grease on their dry food- a rare treat for them, and they seemed none-the-worse for eating the stuff.
I did that all the time with hamburger grease and tuna oil and the family dog lived to be 15 years old! | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 9:48:40 AM | | Bacon grease is a wonderful ALL around seasoning great in vegetables as well. My Mom always used it. Is it bad for ya Well she lived to be 88 & my Dad lived to be 93 yeah I guess it must have been their horrible diet that killed um. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 9:57:38 AM | | I give it to the birds or cats..or whatever comes around....bacon is full of nitrates and chemicals..it's bad for us in the first place,so,why make things worse by eating the fat????now,if you can find real smoked bacon without any chemicals,by all means,but personally,I only use it sparingly....it's good for workboots or any place where you need water preservative... | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 10:02:47 AM | | when my grandmother used to make her tomato sauce, she used to saute the onion and garlic in bacon fat and it added a unique flavor that was very tasty. You could also saute perogies and onions in a bit of it for a change. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 10:26:31 AM | B O Y do I love you, this post and the person that intelligently mentioned his cholesterol after Atkins. Here are several GREAT things to do with bacon fat.
1) NEVER throw it out, but DO refrigerate.
2) Make the BEST DAMN GINGERSNAP COOKIES you ever tasted. Also, be sure to use crystalized ginger in them too. Just substitute whatever fat is in the recipe for the bacon fat. A great smokey flavor. Oh yes, and also use pepper in them to enhance all of the flavors. I like Green peppercorns best, but black, red, or white will do fine.
3) A Wilted Salad dressing, like a redeye gravy (very southern) - heat, add brown sugar and triple strong hot coffee...all in small amounts. Fantastic over biscuits, mashed potatoes, or a greens salad. It is supposed to be thin, but if you want some body, add some flour first, but not so that it is really thick like usual gravy.
4) Fry up some potatoes with bacon, and onion. MMMM MMMMM Good
5)Use in homemade cornbread, or biscuits.
6) Use in making pate's like liver, or mushroom.
Keep saving it and ENJOY! | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 12:12:34 PM | | Well, this didn't give me the category that I was looking for, but this could be used to make suet when mixed with dried fruit and sunflower seeds. The birds and woodpeckers just go crazy over it. Guaranteed to attract lots of birds to your yard. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 1:40:12 PM | you should throw it away! but if well it wont kill you if you eat it "at times"
use it on pinto beans! it gives a great flavour :D | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 2:09:54 PM | Or can be spread on something like a corn cob or in the leftover mesh bag onions come in and roll in birdseed and hang out for the birds in a tree somewhere. And do u all know what birds absolute favorite seed is? Yep, MJ seeds !! are their favorite and the poor things rarely ever get them anymore thanks to governements intervention, so sprinkly your bacon fat with MJ seeds and hang it out for the birds and they will thank you. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 2:12:19 PM | I save bacon grease and use it for almost everything that I fry. It's great! - Prairiephotos
There are certain things it does not work for, but it excellent for frying eggs, potatoes, making fried green
tomatoes, or a roux for pork gravy. But yes, you should keep it in the fridge, I use a clean tuna can.
And you should NEVER pour it down the sink!  (if you have to throw it out, pour it into a metal can, let it
cool & harden,then you can safely throw it in the trash) Very bad for the pipes! Causes clogs!
NOTE: to help clear your pipes & prevent clogs: pour your old coffee grounds down the sink. Old fashioned,
but it still works! | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 3:16:08 PM | I LEARNED 3 USES OF BACON FAT FROM MY PARENTS - 1) USE IT T O SEASON WITH WHEN COOKING. THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN CABBAGE. TURNIP GREENS, GREEN BEANS ,NAVY BEANS, WHITE BEANS, CREAM CORN, RUTABAGAS AND IRISH POTATOES COOKED FOR A LONG TIME WITH BACON DRIPPINGS AS YOUR ONL SEASONING.
2) ADD A COUPLE OF TABLESPOONS TO YOUR BUTTERMILK CORNBREAD MIX.
3)MY FATHER USED IT AS A DRESSING ON A GREEN SALAD, IT
MUST BE HOT
GLAD TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE BESIDES ME STILL LIKES IT.
I, TOO,LIVEDTHRU THE WWII ERA, WAS 22 YRS. OLD, HUSBAND IN SERVICE, HAD 2 CHILDREN AND GOT $90 PER MO,AS MY ONLY INCOME, BELIEVE ME, WE WASTED NOTHING. GOV'T. THEN WENT TO PURCHASING BACON GREASE, HAVE FORGOTTEN THEIR REASON, BUT THEY BURNED IT ( KNOW FOR FACT, BECAUSE I SAW IT)BUT I NEVER SOLD WHAT LITTLE I HAD. I USED IT./
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 3:19:59 PM | My mother basted our eggs in bacon fat.....Very fattening but totally delicious.
Put bacon grease in fridge and when making eggs spoon into pan, heat bacon grease and then break eggs into pan.
Spoon drippings onto eggs as the cook until your desired doneness. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 4:12:52 PM | | bacon fat is fab for cooking ....my fav thing to do with it is cube a 3 lb bag of potatoes and fry it in a cup of bacon fat....also fry chicken in bacon fat instead of oil...get a copy of the frugal gourmet he has great recipes for cooking with bacon fat | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 5:06:17 PM | While I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, I noticed that the fried rice tasted different then that of the Chinese style rice served here in the U.S...(But better)...After 30 years of wondering why, I asked a Japanese person living by me,"What's the secret?"
The answer was bacon grease!
After you cook down your bacon, separate the bacon from the grease, set aside to cool...Crumble when cool...Depending on what you like in your fried rice (previously cook, cooling in your FREEZER on a flat baking tray)...Cook (everything separatly in your Wok) onions, bean sprouts, etc in some of the grease...(even scramble some eggs in it)...Re-cook the rice after it's cooled down, and dehydrated a bit from freezing, in some of the grease...
Mix everything together (including some of the bacon), to heat up anything that might have cooled off too much...Add Soy Sauce, or Teriyaki sauce to taste...
If done correctly, (few time for practice), it will be on your menu list for a long, long time  | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/15/2008 5:40:49 PM | I would only eat bacon fat if I was by myself or with somebody . It causes all your babies to be born naked .
It must be true , I read it on the internet ......... Youtube maybe ....
Is having a cow over a pig like a 2 for 1 sale , or a ground-rule double ? I guess that's more like a cheeseburger .
Naughti , I guess pigovers are gonna replace combovers now huh ? LOL !!!! | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/16/2008 11:29:25 AM | Ever hear of Polk Salad? You don't have to use polk greens, but you can use
leaf lettuce and shallots. Use the bacon fat over the greens to flavor them and
add a little fresh garlic. Just a tad...and make sure you eat lots of oatmeal and
berries and your colesterol will be fine. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/16/2008 12:13:24 PM | The sky is the limit to what you can do with bacon fat ~~
BUT
What you don't do ~
Is pour it down the drain ~
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