Bacon Grease...

[youthere]

What do you do with bacon grease? I have always thrown it out. My grandmother-in-law found out and ripped me a new one. "Never EVER throw away bacon grease!" She uses it in place of shortening and butter in recipes..Any DU'ers out there keep their bacon grease? Any Du'ers find that repulsive?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. don't use it in recipes!

too much junk in it. I pour it on my pets' food as a treat.

[youthere]

3. that's what I'm thinking...

I mean it was probably okay (not healthy but okay) in the days where bacon was actually SMOKED but now it's just injected with a smokey solution isn't it?

[unsavedtrash]

2. I use it all the time but it is a bit gross.

Use it in cooking eggs, biscuits, cornbread, skillet corn, as a seasoning in peas, greens, and green beans in place of salt pork.

[William769]

4. I use it for making a mess of green beans with onions also!

[auntAgonist]

5. I dump it in the garbage. n/t

[wryter2000]

6. I always save it

Depends on what you'd bake with it. I sure wouldn't put it in cookies. In a crust for a savory pie, like a turkey pot pie or a quiche, it would probably taste pretty good.

The main use I make of it is to refry beans in. However, when I have enough, I use it to deep fry chicken. It's high in cholesterol, but it doesn't have any transfats in it. You can use it to sautee anything that would taste good with bacon on top of it.

That's too much flavor to throw away.

[wryter2000]

7. BTW

You could put this in the cooking and baking group for more ideas.

[youthere]

9. Thanks! I didn't think of that.

[Lars39]

8. It's just a heart attack waiting to happen!

I started buying pre-cooked bacon just so I wouldn't have to deal with the danged grease.
An easy way to dispose of grease is to either put it in a container you don't want any more,
like a jar with a lid, or to put the grease in a cereal bowl and stick it in the freezer until it hardens.
Then you can scrape it out in the garbage.
As times get tougher, I can see people going back to using leftover grease again.
I had a neighbor whose family saved their hamburger grease. :puke:

[youthere]

12. Aww yuck! What the hell did they DO with it?

[Lars39]

14. Whatever anybody else would use cooking oil for.

It just grossed me out so badly I wouldn't eat with them.

[youthere]

16. Okay..that would gross me out too.

Eww. Just, eww.

[BikeWriter]

10. Have you ever had a wilted lettuce salad? You should.

[samplegirl]

26. yeah back in the sixties

before cholestrol could kill ya!

[BikeWriter]

29. ROFL! That's a good point.

[bucknaked]

11. Cook chicken in it!

lol! Anytime I do it, I can just hear the sludge in my arteries forming.

[H5N1]

13. How do you store it?

[youthere]

17. Grandma said to put it in a jar in the refrigerator.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. just in a jar in the fridge

[mcscajun]

15. Isn't anything better for making home fries...

with onions, naturally.

:)

Making green beans with some bacon bits, onion, mustard and a pinch of sugar. Omigod, good.

Spinach salad with warm bacon dressing & hard-cooked eggs.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. now I am craving green beans w/bacon and or

turnip greens w/bacon

or any of the other yummy unhealthy stuff I ate growing up.


a good BLT would suffice, actually.

[mcscajun]

23. Yeah...but a BLT Just *makes* more bacon grease.

Then where are you?

:rofl:

[Akoto]

20. My grandmother uses bacon grease.

She was brought up during the Great Depression (as she tells us at every opportunity), so she rarely throws anything away if it can be put to further use. Bacon grease is something I have never, ever seen her chuck out.

Myself? It goes in the garbage. :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. Nothin' better than a ribeye steak fried in bacon grease

to plug your arteries and kill you instantly! :evilgrin:

[mcscajun]

24. Yum. Heart Attack Central if you add some onion rings

and a big tater on the side.

:)

[Poiuyt]

22. I just use it for a special treat

Like if I'm cooking something good when company is coming over. It does add a great taste. My father used it all the time.

[hippiechick]

25. I mix it in with my dog's dry food ...

... excellent to keep his coat shiny :)

But there's no way I could possibly use re-use it for regular cooking :puke:

... unless it was a base part of a roux ? ... :shrug:

[samplegirl]

27. gross!

if you must save it use it for suet.

[friesianrider]

28. Absolutely repulsive.

As if bacon weren't sick enough :puke: the only thing worse is COOKING with the nasty grease left over.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: