Posted: 5/21/2008 9:38:29 AM EDT
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I married a Yankee, so I don't get to revel in bacon grease soaked food (but I'll live longer). Growing up there was a small pot on the counter by the stove. It had an insert in the top. Mom poured the grease thru the insert, which strained solids out. The grease collected in the bottom portion. When she needed some, she spooned it out. I don't think it was ever thrown out, just cycled thru by more or less constant use. It was never refrigerated. I don't recall any cases of gastroenteritis growing up. My cholesterol level is great! 
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What the hell? You soak that stuff up with rags and throw it away. Don't keep that stuff, thats disgusting. That said, grease pretty much lasts forever, it decomposes at about the same rate as your bar of soap does, its almost the same kinda stuff. But anyways... what the hell do you do with it? like use it for a dip for chips or something? Stick it in little shot glasses and shoot them down? |
I don't know, my grandfather put that stuff on his toast everyday, and he lived to be 92. He didn't die of heart disease either. I think the hydrogenated vegetable oil in Margerine is probably worse for you. |
You don't cook much do ya?  Next time you make home made bread, instead of brushing the top with butter, use bacon grease. Mmmmm |
I was thinking about making bread this week.... Brushing it with BACON grease sounds tasty.  I might try that.
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It will last a very long time and you don't have to keep it in the fridge , just put it in a Crisco can with a lid on it and put it the cabinet someplace. You will be able to tell when you don't need to use it cause it will go rancid but it will take months to go bad ! |
There are SOOOOOOO many things you can do with the bacon grease. When I cook eggs for breakfast, I'll sometimes use bacon grease to lubricate the skillet. It makes eggs taste amazing. Sometimes I'll also use bacon grease when I'm cooking vegetables in a pot of water. The bacony goodness soaks into just about any vegetable you can think of in all the right ways.
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We had one of those. I don't recall ever seeing my Mom dump it out, it just kept getting new grease put in it. We never got ill. |
Proof that Floridians aren't really southerners, as so many of them claim. I don't save the drippings, either. It's not that I don't like them (I do), it's that I rarely fry bacon. I uh...don't like bacon strips all that much. It's okay, but it gets old quick. So I don't fry it much. |
Mmmm! Fry a pound of bacon in a dutch oven, take out the bacon, throw in a pound or two sliced potatoes and a onion. Cook 'em til they are soft, add bacon pieces. Serve it hot out of the pan, and you are in hillbilly heaven.
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Recipe FTW
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Ironically, I recently read something about a restaurant (somewhere in the southeast IIRC) that has continuously "cycled" - i.e., when it gets a little low, just keep adding more - the same container full of bacon grease using an old percolater coffee pot as a storage vessel, always storing it near the stovetop, for a period of close to a hundred years now ... it was a seemingly legit claim too. We always have a small jar full in the fridge (soft) ready for use, and keep an extra one in the freezer for backup.  We end up using & then creating a brand new batch about every 2-3 weeks.
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My grandfather told me how he used bacon grease when he was growing up. My great grandmother would save the grease in large glass jars. When they were half full, she would take the fresh bacon that they just cured and chopp it into large chunks and put it in the jars of the solidified bacon grease. They didn't have refrigeration. The solidified grease was a preservative for the bacon. He said that the bacon would last up to a year at room temp. |
Ban him!!! Eggs + bacon grease Green beans + bacon grease Cornbread, pancakes, or waffles made with bacon grease I freeze mine in a jar. With a greyhound in the house, the counter is out of the question. We'd have one very sick, very happy greyhound. In any event, I expect it will last as long as I need it. Has anyone here used bacon fat as the shortening in biscuits? |
that idea is full of win |
You silly child you be using the bacon grease for makin the corn bread. You also be using it to make the roux for your gumbo. You use the bacon to season your blackeyed and purple hull peas that be going with the cornbread. You put the bacon in your hominys too. If you don't have no crisco you can fry your pork chops in the bacon grease. You eat the prk chops with the cormbread and the purplehull peas. Lordsemercy you can keep that bacon grease forever in the ice box, or damn near that long on the counter ifns you keep the flys out of it. You chilrens is so unedumicated. |
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Is all purpose,eating and cast bullet lube..save it for the troops as bullet dip over in the midyeast. I do not know about getting sick from it but I have had the same iron skillet frying bacon forty years now,never cleaned except for wiping out with a towel with salt on it,not dead yet |
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Best Burger - 1lb ground chuck 1lb ground sirloin Get both of them 90% lean 4 slices of sandwich bread (any really) cut the crust off the bread, add 2-3 tablespoons of cream or milk to the bread and mash with a fork until smooth mix chuck, sirloin and bread paste together in a large mixing bowl add 3-4 table spoons of clarified bacon grease (hmmmm bacon) and mix until bacon grease (hhmmm bacon) is incorporated form into patties and cook on a hot grill watch for flare ups as the bacon grease (hhmmm bacon) melts enjoy! |