Bacon grease

[Pew]

What do you guys do with yours? I don't eat bacon except when it's on sale so I got 5 pounds of store brand apple wood and peppered bacon for $15. As such, when I make bacon I get a lot of grease that I don't want to throw out. There's gotta be more ways to reuse the bacon grease in other recipes.

 

[KGMtech]

Ours goes into the green bin, 2 generations of mothers would be rolling in their respective graves to know we don't use this for cooking,

 

[JayhawkRoy]

We store a small amount in fridge for corn bread, etc. Rest goes into a tin can for trash collection. Can also freeze too.

 

[walterjay]

I toss mine. I should probably try it for cooking as it is supposedly better than using seed oils.

 

[Inked]

Keep a small amount for frying eggs.

 

[Boomer]

Use it to grease wagon wheel bearings on your Conestoga wagon!

 

[jetman]

I use it like I use butter, ghee, beef and lamb tallow, and evoo.
I add it to certain dishes to add flavor and increase the fat content.

 

[The_Jeff]

I was letting it season my cast iron pans until I found cat hair there.

I fill a coffee can and send it to the dump.

 

[oldcodger]

Had a subsistance farm uncle who used it to grease his boots and other leather items. When he came to our house our cat and dog would follow him around. They were looking for a bacon handout.

 

[DCDG]

its tasty but to the landfill it goes i know better for my health. i will fry the eggs that morning in a smidge of the bacon grease but won't hold onto it afterwards.

 

[Oillover]

I tried saving it for frying eggs, but wife didn't care for the smell of bacon, with no bacon to be had.

 

[mitsuman47]

Most of the replies in this thread are either sad or pathetic. But, mostly sad and pathetic.

Bacon grease was literally sent down to us from God himself as one of the best cooking fats. Tied with beef tallow.

 

[Hirev]

Had a subsistance farm uncle who used it to grease his boots and other leather items. When he came to our house our cat and dog would follow him around. They were looking for a bacon handout.

LOL

 

[Dborch41]

Use it to grease wagon wheel bearings on your Conestoga wagon!

Bacon grease is a last resort. I prefer to use synthetic whale oil, Euro-spec if available.

 

[Dborch41]

I tried saving it for frying eggs, but wife didn't care for the smell of bacon, with no bacon to be had.

My initial reaction was "how could you marry a woman who didn't care for the smell of bacon?" before finishing the entire sentence. Now it makes much more sense.

 

[dbias]

If I’m frying bacon, I’m making scratch biscuits and gravy and fried eggs. Afterwards there is usually nothing left after i re-season my cast iron pans.

 

[BobsArmory]

Save it for eggs and making sausage gravy. Somtimes I have to buy it at the store when I run low.

 

[BHopkins]

Love bacon. But knowing that the bacon grease is probably the least healthy part of bacon, it goes in the trash.

 

[bdc101]

literally just the very next thing you put in the frying pan?? I have never even considered the problem of "having too much bacon grease"

 

[97prizm]

What do you guys do with yours? I don't eat bacon except when it's on sale so I got 5 pounds of store brand apple wood and peppered bacon for $15. As such, when I make bacon I get a lot of grease that I don't want to throw out. There's gotta be more ways to reuse the bacon grease in other recipes.

Freeze it and use it as grill lube