Bacon Fat

[A-Polly]

My mom and her mom used a special bacon fat container, about the size of a one-pound coffee can, but with a strainer sort of thing at the top, under the lid, so the bacon fat for cooking would be free of little burned bits. However, she would fall back on a coffee can when her special fat canister was full.

I don't cook or eat bacon, but just about everything I ate as a child contained bacon fat--greens, beans, eggs, tomato gravy...

I wonder if those special canisters are still made?