Bacon Fat

[mrlynn]

My wife doesn't let me eat bacon (family history of heart disease), but back in the day I used to use bacon fat in cornbread: made all the difference.

Now, I don't bother with cornbread.

/Mr Lynn

[Paul F.]

mrlynn wrote:
Now, I don't bother with cornbread.

/Mr Lynn

Just eat the bacon grease straight up?


I save it, and I use it whenever I'm sauteing stuff (unless bacon grease is otherwise indicated, like browning fish or something....).

[BernDog]

My wife says they used it for popcorn back in the day. Haven't had the chance to try it, but it sounds awesome.

[Tofer]

No, but there is this "coffee syrup" that might do the trick (or might not...).

[mrlynn]

Paul F. wrote:

Just eat the bacon grease straight up?

LOL! That would make me persona non grata around here.

Actually, I used to use half bacon fat, half butter in my cornbread. When these got outlawed, I gave up making cornbread—and BLTs as well (bacon, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and mustard [no mayo, please!] on toast). But now I'll live forever.

/Mr Lynn

[Paul F.]

Immortality without bacon is no blessing....

I'm just sayin'....

[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?

[graylocks]

Trouble wrote:
Hell yeah

yep. made some bacon for dinner in fact. about to pour the grease into the coffee cup that sits on my stove for that sole purpose.

for many years i was into 'healthy' eating which meant very little bacon. bacon's back in the diet but i probably only have it once a month or so. my cast iron skillets love it.

[OWC Jamie]

Haven't bought bacon in a really long long time.

I'll save hamburger grease and make suet cakes.
So should I buy some bacon to say, wrap around scallops, the grease would go in the same grease can.

[WHiiP]

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Not the one I have, but it accomplishes the same thing . . .