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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/16/2008 10:10:03 PM | You are absolutely right Prairiephotos.
I thought of that and several other uses after I closed my post. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 12:50:18 AM | | You can use it instead of butter when making hash brown potatoes or when frying eggs etc. It adds so much flavour. Yummo | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 3:51:03 AM | I never thought in my wildest dreams there were that many uses for something as trivial as bacon fat but you all really have enlightened me in a big way. Well, all except the one where i am told to use it as hair grease since i lost all my hair a long time ago and shave it short as a result. Keep it coming as i really am taking notes here.
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 5:13:24 AM | Tips for Northerners Moving South
1) Save all manner of bacon grease; you will be instructed in its use later.
Obviously you are a recent migrant from the north who has settled in Dixie and are awaiting your instructions. You will be contacted in the near future by my brother's sisters cousin' soon as he finishes brazing new copper coil on the kettle. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 11:33:19 AM | best use i have found is to substitute bacon fat for oil when making corn bread. i guarantee side by side you will know which platter will be empty. second favorite frying eggs in cast iron pan .
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 12:14:37 PM | It's too salty. This is why, say, a lot of French recipes call for salt pork which ironically is less salty. There's a letter from George Washington about seasoning cast iron pans in which he warns to not use bacon as the salt will corrode and pit the metal. Lard being the most stable fat is the one to use.
I can see using very small amount of it for flavour but not using it as a general purpose fat in the way you might with say, duck fat. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 12:27:07 PM | | The salt content in cured pork was much higher in the days prior to refrigeration. Bacon and ham had to have enough salt to resist spoilage for many months. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 12:32:11 PM |
The salt content in cured pork was much higher in the days prior to refrigeration. Bacon and ham had to have enough salt to resist spoilage for many months.
Don't think I've ever seen "country bacon" but that surely is true of "country ham" lol! Even the natives have to soak and drain multiple times for it to be edible.
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/17/2008 12:42:35 PM | Hi Woobs, fancy meeting you here! Anyhow, I find a good use for old bacon fat is as a doggy-doo remover. Just warm it up a bit in an old tin can (right on a stove burner), then take it out and pour some on any offensive piles of doggy-doo you might find on your front lawn or in the garden. In a day or two the pile of crap will be gone like magic.
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| Bacon fat does NOT go into the sink!!!?
Posted: 2/17/2008 1:13:35 PM | My gawd. Pouring bacon fat into septic system--OR a sewer-- is about the same as drinking fat: clogged arteries, clogged septic/sewer!! Better you drink it than pour it into the drain field.
Pour the fat into a canning tin and when it is hardened, dispose in the garbage. You can put the "lard" outside--mixed with bird seed--where foraging critters can consume it, but never never never dispose down a sink drain.
PS Lard is the same thing as bacon fat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lard
PPS Salt is water soluble, not fat soluble, so all the comments about salt: the "juice" will be salty, but the fat itself will be salf-free. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/18/2008 9:28:27 PM | | One of the little blessings in life, bacon grease. If its too salty, add boiling water to it when its liquid, stir well and place in fridge or someplace cold until it sets then pour off the water. since salt is water soluble the water will take most of the salt with it. I know, my grammar is making my third grade teacher roll over in her grade, Sorry Mrs. Hobbs. P.S. why are we even hearing from health freaks on this thread?? just a way to spread their self righteousness?? | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/19/2008 4:42:56 PM | I don't pour bacon fat down my drains or into my body . . . and I'm not a "strict" diet person. It's just I can almost picture the stuff adhering to my arteries and it's not pretty; therefore, I give it to the dogs. I pour hot bacon grease from the skillet into their big bag of dry dog food. They like it a lot.
I also have used fats for an experiment of making lye soaps. The rendering of fats was interesting as was the saponization (is that the right word?) that happened once the lye and water mixture at 100 degrees touched the clear fats at 100 degrees--beautiful!! And the best use of fats that I've come up with thus far. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/20/2008 5:51:14 AM | the first think that comes to mind is potato leek soup! when i make this soup i render the fat from the bacon in a stock pot, add choped leeks and let cook until soft add choped potatos and chiken stock just to cover the solids and bring to a boil until the potatos are soft. add a small amount of heavy cream. seasom with lots of black pepper and fresh ground coriander. than add 2 thirds to a blender . pulverise it to make it creamy than add it back to the pot.
you could also use it to cook meet like deer, or other types of meet that have low amounts of fat.  | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/20/2008 7:43:43 AM | Okay,, can't you rub it all over your body as a mosquito repellant?
I heard that somewhere.. or maybe that was bear fat.
Seriously, bacon fat is just another fat. It's probably no worse for you than butter. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/20/2008 7:59:34 AM | | Use an old ice cube tray to freeze the bacon fat and then put the frozen bacon cubes in a baggie in the freezer. Easy to then harvest a little for seasoning........ or set them out in the winter as suet for birds. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/20/2008 10:38:45 AM | | Bacon fat and onion sandwiches, Bavarian special ;) Get a piece of thick rye bread, toast it until it's crispy, spread congealed bacon fat on it like butter, load up with thinly sliced onions, salt, and enjoy! | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/20/2008 1:38:19 PM | Whow..I cant get over all the uses for this item that will clog up arteries! Guess I was raised in the error where we waste money...I pour it in a jar..like an old jam or peanut butter jar and when it is cool and full i trash it....I am not into greasy foods or frying though...I do 90 percent of my bacon cooking in the microwave these days... | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/20/2008 1:51:06 PM | | I had a renter that thought putting it down the drain was a good thing to do as well. The pipes cool off the "hot" water and the fat that they thought was gone hardened further down the pipes. Instead put the fat into a jar. Not that hard to do. My two cents. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/21/2008 8:29:33 PM | Maybe I'm a little crazy but it makes a great scented candle. Just put a floating wick on it and viola. Problem is I get the munchies if I do this. Sure does wake up the boy though!  | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/21/2008 8:59:24 PM | The lady that said you should pour it down the drain with cold water is the most intelligent woman I hav ever had the pleasure of coming in contact with:) Seriously, I can attest to the fact that the hot water treatment is a myth. In my former house, I took apart the trap and could not believe what I found. It's cold water from now on.
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/21/2008 9:05:05 PM | | I'm a country girl and I've always used the fat or the grease from cookin bacon to season all kinds of beans, cabbage, collards, potatoes and even grits. I love the taste of it and also know thats it's not good for you, but what is now days....... | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/21/2008 10:44:07 PM | Ya don't pour it down the drain period, hot water OR cold... sheesh. You shouldn't pour any kind of fat or oil down any drain.
There are two kinds of fats, the ones that are solid at room temperature, and the ones that are not. The ones that are not won't clog the pipes, but they WILL pollute the hell out of water. You've heard that "oil and water don't mix," well it's true. Think about oil slicks you've seen, and realize that fats and cooking oils cause the same kind of mess. As far as the ones that are solid at room temp, dumping them in the drain with cold water while they are hot and liquid just makes them get back to solid faster, lining the pipes as they cool. Dumping them in with hot water just keeps them liquid for a little longer, 'til they get further down the pipe, and they cool anyway, and they line and clog the pipe there. Either way, NOT a good idea, unless you LIKE paying plumbers, or ruining your septic fields.
Put it in an old coffee can if you're not going to cook with it, throw the can in the trash when it's eventually filled, or use the recipes given here by others to feed birds. Don't wreck your plumbing. | |
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| What can i do with Bacon fat?
Posted: 2/21/2008 10:46:12 PM | Here is my Mother's recipe for Bacon Spagetti. Everyone I have ever given it to has made it a staple in their dinner menu's. Cook half a pound of bacon. Remove bacon and crumble to add later. Saute one medium onion, chopped, in bacon fat. Add two cans of Del Monte tomato sauce and the crumbled bacon and simmer for a few minutes. Salt & pepper to taste. Cook three quarters to one pound of thin spagetti. Drain & rinse in very hot water. Pour in the Bacon Spagetti Sauce and toss well until all pasta is coated. Yummy!
Another favorite was her hot Bacon & Cheese bread. She would take hot dog buns, split down the middle, and spread them with the bacon grease. Then she would take grated cheddar cheese and finely chopped onion and sprinkle generously over the "buttered" buns, put them under the broiler to brown, watching them carefully, so they would not burn, then serve them to us for lunch with kool-aid to drink. Mouthwatering!
You can bake biscuits over a camp fire in a hot iron skillet smeared generously with bacon grease, fry cornmeal covered okra, potatoes, breaded green tomatoes and many other vegetables. Make a meal out of fresh green beans, cooked with chunks of potato, chopped onion and a healthy scoop of bacon grease. Use in baked beans, bean soup, split pea soup, potato soup and many others. Bake your pancakes in a hot iron skillet smeared with it, then go ahead and abuse the maple syrup. I guarantee you, it will be worth it. | |
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