My wife does everything possible to extract as much of it as possible out of the bacon she cooks. (There's nothing more disgusting than soft, fatty, blubbery bacon). After that the only place it's going is in the garbage.
Bacon grease
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Years ago while backpacking, my readilly available snack was fish, either herring in sour cream or roll-mops (rolled around a pickel).
A pal ate raw bacon. He'd peel off a slice and eat it like ribbon candy.
Only 3 minutes in the microwave wrapped in a wet rag. Yeah, right. Imagine eating that pile of soaking wet, fatty slop. That's enough to gag a maggot.
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My wife loves bacon but likes it crisp, with no grease dripping. I bought this and she has the type of bacon she likes in 5 minutes. While cooking in the microwave all the grease drips down between the slats so the bacon isn’t cooking in it. My MIL liked is so much I ordered one for her too.
PrepSolutions Microwaveable Bacon Grill, Cooks 7-9 Pieces of Crispy Bacon in Minutes, Offers Quick Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner https://a.co/d/0hF6SxJX
PrepSolutions Microwaveable Bacon Grill, Cooks 7-9 Pieces of Crispy Bacon in Minutes, Offers Quick Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner https://a.co/d/0hF6SxJX
My wife uses a certain brand of paper towel, and cooks it in between several sheets on a plate in the microwave. The paper toweling absorbs all the grease out of it, and the result is nice crisp, perfectly cooked bacon in about 6 minutes.
Use it to season your collard greens in the Fall, after a good frost.
I've just started to cook the bacon in the oven when I cook ~1/4 pound of bacon on a wire rack with cookie tray under it. Keeps the grease contained for easy cleaning and even cooking but it takes like 30 minutes at 425° so not time efficient .
I mix it with my rendered tallow and use it to bard my lean roasts. And yes also with collards.
https://www.food.com/about/bard-791
https://www.food.com/about/bard-791
During WW2 it was collected and used in making explosives.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-bacon-into-bombs-during-world-war-ii/360298/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-bacon-into-bombs-during-world-war-ii/360298/
My wife does these bacon bombs. Dogs, cats, humans. Outside immediately.
I cook bacon on a Phillips "smoke-less" indoor grill. All the grease falls into an easily removable tray, and then the grease goes into my grease collection bucket. I put parentheses around smoke-less because it really isn't totally smokeless. Use the grill under an exhaust hood.
https://www.usa.philips.com/c-m-ho/cooking/electric-indoor-bbq-grill/
https://www.usa.philips.com/c-m-ho/cooking/electric-indoor-bbq-grill/
Lowes sells containers of bacon grease next to the outdoor grills.
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