Bacon Fat

[freeradical]

I save it for adding flavor to a roux, or to saute vegetables.

[Trouble]

Hell yeah

[haikuman]

My Grandfather and my dad saved it in a 2lb Folgers Coffee can... I rarely eat bacon and only very lean Canadian Style Bacon

[Grace62]

No - don't cook much bacon anyway. Can't get completely through the tomato season though without making at least one BLT on white bread with real mayo.

My grandmother added bacon fat to beans, collards, hamburgers, and sometimes salad dressing, and used it to scramble eggs. Who knows what else. As unhealthy as it is, it does taste really good.

[Rick-o]

Had some BLT's for lunch today. :yum: But I never save the bacon fat. I probably should. I'm not that good of a cook, and bacon flavor would improve virtually all of my meals.

[Kate]

Yum, made fresh geen beans cooked in a bit of bacon fat last night.

Kate

[Fritz]

smoked duck fat too, mmmmmmmm

[Buzz]

haikuman wrote:
My Grandfather and my dad saved it in a 2lb Folgers Coffee can... I rarely eat bacon and only very lean Canadian Style Bacon

I also grew up in a home where the various fats from cooking were collected in coffee cans, but my folks and siblings were coffeholics, so we used 3lb MJB or Yuban cans. I got stuck on iced tea, and never matriculated to coffee, so I didn't contribute to the cans that were used. Pretty much everybody we knew growing put their cooking fat in coffee cans. I don't recall who re-used it, or sold it, or used it as lamp fuel, I just remember the same ritual at everyone's homes.

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[MacArtist]

We have bacon about once a month.

We do not save the bacon fat.

[vision63]

Do not "ever" mix her Bacon Grease with her Fish Grease. That was common back in the proverbial day.