/Bacon Grease/

>>8222892
immediately cook my eggs in them

>>8222892
sure. put a dab in stew or soup, or when searing meat. gotta keep tabs on when you stashed it tho since it goes rancid after a while

Yes. My favorite thing to use is for is potatoes though. It tends to be pretty strongly flavored and I think it overpowers eggs

I put a little in with green beans.

I think I'd only use it for split pea soup and making a base for bloody marys.

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>>8222892
How much bacon do you eat that it warrants saving the fat, fatty?

>>8223217
For me personally, I just pour all my grease into a jar and throw it out so I don't have to pour it down the drain.

It's good for carmelizing onions.

>>8222905
Hell yes.

>>8223221
smart. throwing it down the drain is just a plumbing bill waiting to happen. congealed grease + hair + dirt + burnt carbon etc can wreak havoc on your pipes

>>8222892
Oh, I'd say about everyone who lived before 1950, and anyone with a brain larger than a walnut, now.

>>8223457
I have never heard of people doing this until this thread.

sometimes I make beef tallow. don't really eat enough bacon to care

>>8222892
i have a bean can and a spaghettios can filled with it in my freezer. initially i started doing it bc my mom always did but she would just throw it away, i guess bc the grease could fuck up the drain. i always thought about using it for cooking but never have and now i don't have any empty cans to put it in

fuck you OP now i'm anxious about what i'm gonna do tomorrow with my bacon grease

>>8223505
Well, if you crawled out of your basement occasionally, you might have.

>>8223516
I'll pass.

>>8223512
wtf is beef tallow.

As far as i know bacon grease can keep for quite a long time if stored properly. Just so you guys know though, you have to strain out all the meaty bits to do this. Past a couple days of sitting out it will Go rancid.

>>8225310
Leave this board now

>>8222892
Of course, it would be stupid to throw it out.

>>8225310
Rendered beef fat.

>>8222892
Yeah. It's my main cooking fat. A few strips of side bacon yields enough to cook with for days. Sometimes when I cook more bacon than usual I'll use it for salad dressings or mayonnaise. I probably save about $50 on cooking oil a year. Not much, but whatever. It tastes pretty good. It feels like I cook it for the rendered fat, and the bacon itself is just a byproduct.

I wish I had bacon often enough to warrant holding onto it. I do collect cooking grease instead of pouring it down the drain, though.

Only time I really cook bacon is for carbonara, so I use the grease on the spot.

>>8222892
i save it to make gravy

I'm actually making fries in bacon grease now. Good stuff.

I filter mine through a coffee filter to make it keep longer and be a lil less prone to smoke.

>>8223217
How much grease are you using that you can't get by using the trimmings of a little bacon?

>>8222892
Yes. There's literally no reason to not save your bacon grease. Even if you don't cook a lot of bacon it adds up. If anything you can use it in most cases where you'd use oil or butter and you can save a little money that way.

I save it to cook it with my burgers or for the occasional scrambled eggs. I've also made some bretty gud tortillas with it.

>>8222892
Absolutely. I use it for making soups & gravies and for seasoning my cast iron skillet. I also mix it into ground meat when I'm making burgers or meatballs--it melts out of the meat during cooking while leaving the meat extra juicy.

>>8222892
no, not save it, but I cook bacon first, then my eggs in the bacon grease, then save a bit to rub onto my toast

my mom keeps hers in a can on the freezer door, doesn't go rancid in the freezer.

I don't save mine aside from cooking my eggs in it cus I don't have a second chest freezer and can't afford the space

>>8223217
Lmao sugar causes weight gain not fat Animal fats are healthier then soybean and most vegetable oils soybean oil causes fat to be stored in the belly..