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Bacon Drippings???

Sunshine Kate — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:09:39 GMT

I know how to get bacon drippings, but I rarely fry bacon. Do grocery stores sell bacon drippings?

Is bacon fat called something else? I don't think it's lard.

Thanks

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DoneTryin — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:19:34 GMT

Your post just made me giggle. Sorry, no offense intended. I wanted to say why don't you just go to the kitchen door of a Denny's & ask them for some? Seriously, though, I don't think they sell them at the grocery store. Why can't you just cook up some bacon for the drippings, & discard the bacon? Yes, I know that's wasting food.

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sunshine45 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:24:03 GMT

i usually "bake" my bacon in the oven and then save all of the bacon drippings in a jar. all of the bacon is usually eaten when i do that, but if you dont want to eat it then freeze the bacon and just pull it out as needed for a sandwich or a recipe.

lard is pig fat, but without that smokey/cured flavor that bacon would have. lard is great when making pie crusts.

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Barbarainnc — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:31:54 GMT

My mom doesn't cook bacon that much, so I save my bacon grease and share with her.

She uses it to season her veggies.

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depglass — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:33:05 GMT

My mother always had the Drippings jar on the stove full of bacon fat to fry stuff in. That was about the only unhealthy thing she did, more to save money than anything else. I discarded that concept when I started cooking, it seemed the fat would go rancid. Now that I'm not such a prude with my eating habits, maybe I'll try it one of these days. Heaven knows I've relaxed a few other taboos.

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goodstuff — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:36:37 GMT

Yes, "bacon drippings" are the drippings left in the pan after you fry (or bake) bacon. I can remember back in the day when every proper Southern cook kept a grease container with a strainer and lid by the stove so she could pour her bacon grease out of the pan into the grease keeper to be used later. My mama had a matching set with an aluminum grease keeper and salt and pepper shakers. You fried eggs in bacon grease, seasoned fresh garden vegetables with it, and used it in a host of other ways. Bacon grease was a staple.

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Barbarainnc — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:38:31 GMT

Maybe there is a future in selling bacon grease at a grocery store. There are some bacon companies that sell pre-cooked bacon. How about saving the bacon grease and putting it on the market. I bet it would sell.

They sell lard,ghee and clarified butter at stores, so what about bacon grease??

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Sooner — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:26:14 GMT

I am a child of the 60s and bacon grease was always pitched out. We never put it in anything. I went to a friend's house for dinner and she told me to ""season the green beans."" I put some salt in. After while she looked at them and said ""I told you to season them."" I dutifully added more salt. She looked in in a few minutes and said ""I thought you were going to season them?"" I said ""Good grief how much salt do you want?"" She looked at me blankly and said ""Salt?"" ""You SEASON them with bacon grease."" I was horrified! LOL!!!

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Georgiagrama — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:31:21 GMT

Just fry up some bacon and get your drippings. You can crumble the bacon up and use it on toppings on salads or mac and cheese or just make a good old bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

I don't think there is anything that will substitute for bacon drippings. I'm from the South so I have a big can of drippings that I use to season everything with. I do keep mine in the ice box though.

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forrestwolf — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:24:34 GMT

On 3/5/2014 Retired08 said:
Just fry up some bacon and get your drippings. You can crumble the bacon up and use it on toppings on salads or mac and cheese or just make a good old bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

I don't think there is anything that will substitute for bacon drippings. I'm from the South so I have a big can of drippings that I use to season everything with. I do keep mine in the ice box though.

Lordy........you are still living in the South when you say you keep it in the ice box........

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forrestwolf — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:28:39 GMT

I have found that a little square of whole bacon, cut in several slits, but not thru it, and quick fried renders enough fat to flavor many foods, and then I will add this to beans, or greens, or whatever, and people just choose not to eat the little square, without thinking that the flavor of the food actually comes from the rendered bacon fat, or just add it into the pot, and let it flavor this way, and remove the little square so no one realizes.........

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susan_ca — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:32:48 GMT

I don't have bacon dripping when I "cook" bacon.

Once every other month, I would enjoy 1 or 2 slices of nice, crispy bacons.

I "cook" my bacons in microwave. Lay 2 napkins flat on microwavable dish, lay 1 or 2 slices of bacon on the napkins, lay 1 napkin flat on top of the bacon(s). Put in microwave for 2 minutes, and, voila, bacon came out crispy, and flat.... no grease.

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PurpleBunny — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:38:26 GMT

I have a can of it in the freezer ... Wish I could pass it on!

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AuntG — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:54:50 GMT

Just saw a local TV ""chef"" make a scallop recipe today that called for bacon drippings. She then added some white wine to make the sauce.

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PurpleBunny — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:57:20 GMT

On 3/5/2014 AuntG said:
Just saw a local TV "chef" make a scallop recipe today that called for bacon drippings. She then added some white wine to make the sauce.

Cook a little garlic and onions in bacon fat, add red wine, tomato product, sprinkle of crushed red pepper and it's an amazing, easy sauce.

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willdob3 — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:00:02 GMT

I've got some bacon grease in a jar on my stove. I don't use it - want mine? lol.. When the jar gets a bit full I toss it.

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TN halfback — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:30:34 GMT

Can't imagine a kitchen without a mason jar full of bacon grease! Oh my!!! Yes, you have to fry or bake the bacon...no easy way out on this one.

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debic — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:54:37 GMT

I generally buy a couple pkgs of bacon ends and pieces and render it like lard. Then I freeze it in silicone cups and use as I need.

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Sunshine Kate — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:01:02 GMT

Thank you all so much for the replies.

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DiAnne — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:02:48 GMT

My grandmother used to keep an old coffee can under the sink with bacon grease in it but the only thing I ever saw her do with it was fry eggs.