topic Re: Question About Bacon Grease in Kitchen

Question About Bacon Grease

Icegoddess — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:17:50 GMT

I have a question about bacon grease. I know many save and use this in their cooking. I remember my mother putting it on top of biscuits before cooking them. But, my question is, what about sausage grease, or a combo.

Today on Live with Kelly & Mark, one of the holiday specials was some products for cooking and storing bacon and grease. I have looked at bacon grease storage tins on Amazon, but invariably they are quite large. The one they showed was a small silicone cup which piqued my interest since I don't cook bacon that much. My husband, on the other hand, cooks chicken sausage fairly regularly. So, I was wondering whether the combination of the two would make sense in cooking.

Re: Question About Bacon Grease

Susan Louise — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:51:50 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
I have a question about bacon grease. I know many save and use this in their cooking. I remember my mother putting it on top of biscuits before cooking them. But, my question is, what about sausage grease, or a combo.

Today on Live with Kelly & Mark, one of the holiday specials was some products for cooking and storing bacon and grease. I have looked at bacon grease storage tins on Amazon, but invariably they are quite large. The one they showed was a small silicone cup which piqued my interest since I don't cook bacon that much. My husband, on the other hand, cooks chicken sausage fairly regularly. So, I was wondering whether the combination of the two would make sense in cooking.

@Icegoddess I only save beef tallo and bacon fat/grease for cooking. I will occasionally use butter/ghee but that's it. I don't mix the beef tallo and bacon grease and never saved grease from sausage. As for storage, I just use Lock & Lock containers.

Side Note: We do not use seed oils & margarine which cause inflammation.

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goldensrbest — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:26:45 GMT

Way back in the past.people put bacon grease in a coffee can, i think any container with a top would be fine.

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ciao_bella — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:39:36 GMT

I think any good can with a tight fitting lid would do. I also want to add something else to this thread about bacon grease, etc.

Another viable option for the grease would be to mix it with bird seed and hang it outside in the winter for the birds, who are so often overlooked in freezing weather.

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Marp — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:54:05 GMT

I store my bacon grease in a Philadelphia cream cheese container.

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RedTop — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:21:38 GMT

I save my bacon grease in a Smuckers jelly jar, store it in the fridge, and use it to season dried beans, cornbread, grease the baking sheet for biscuits, and in the skillet to fry potatoes.

The sausage we like does not render much fat, barely a teaspoon full, so I do not save it. I will fry eggs or potatoes in that small amount of fat, or make sausage gravy with it. Sausage fat certainly adds flavor if you are sautéing onions and peppers, onions and celery, making soup, etc. If I fry sausage today and know I'm going to cook something tomorrow that would be great cooked in that skillet, I will put that skillet in the oven to save for tomorrow.

I would never mix bacon and sausage fat together, in a jar, but would add both to something I'm cooking.

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Icegoddess — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:37:27 GMT

Thank you @RedTop .

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SandySparkles — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:42:55 GMT

@goldensrbest That was my dear mother's preferred method of saving bacon grease.😊

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LavernLuvsShoes — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:05:50 GMT

@RedTop wrote:
I save my bacon grease in a Smuckers jelly jar...

I will fry eggs or potatoes in it.

Ditto - But I store my bacon grease in the cupboard, and it seasons greens, beans and veggies beautifully as well.

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drizzellla — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:15:00 GMT

I made a recipe that called for bacon grease. I did not have any. So I cooked a half a pound of bacon. Well, finally a recipe I cooked that got rave reviews.

So I got a heavy glass jar with a very tight lid. It holds about 1/4 cup. And I store the bacon grease in it. I do not keep any other grease. I pour all the other types of grease into metal cans that have lids and throw the grease out.

I think the bacon grease added a nice flavor to the dish. Any other grease would not add as tasty a flavor.

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On It — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:43:24 GMT

When I was a child, we had bacon every morning. Mother saved the grease and used it as seasoning in vegetables. I especially remember how much it improved the taste of green beans.

My grandfather preferred sausage for breakfast with biscuits and gravy. To get her bacon grease, my grandmother would fry two pieces of bacon in the bottom of a saucepan, add green beans, and a whole onion. She removed the onion and the bacon before serving. They were so good!

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River Song — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:53:40 GMT

My mother used a small coffee can to store bacon grease, too. I use a small plastic container with a lid like those disposable Ziploc plastic containers with the twist lock lids. I store it in the refrigerator but you can also freeze it. I've never saved the grease from sausage because there usually isn't enough to bother with.

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Sooner — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:03:23 GMT

@Icegoddess I do exactly what my mother did with bacon and other grease: Throw it all away but don't put it down the sink. We didn't use it.

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ECBG — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:11:17 GMT

On the farm we had an aluminum grease pot with a drainer.

Things like greens (yum), and dried beans (which I never liked) got a little fat.

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AuntG — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:17:51 GMT

Not a saver of bacon grease but I will fry our eggs in it after frying up a batch. I just saw bacon dressing offered from an online store. It looked horrendous with all the grease congealed at the top.

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Mz iMac — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:33:31 GMT

For collards & string beans fatback adds more flavor than bacon grease.

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SaveTheTurtles — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:19:25 GMT

I'm not a keeper of the bacon grease and don't make sausage. But I do recall my mom would save it in an empty margarine or cool whip container after it was cool of course. Clearly this was befor lock n lock and she was not a fan of Tupperware. It did add flavor to fried eggs which is what she'd use it for.

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shoptilyadropagain — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:18:57 GMT

I only fry bacon to use in green beans so I never have any extra to save. My mom saved hers in an old coffee cup and used aluminum foil to cover it and kept it in the fridge.

I recently purchased BaconUp. It's ok but I don't think it has a rich deep bacon flavor you get from frying bacon.

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rms1954 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:57:47 GMT

The whole idea of cooking with leftover grease is gross.

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ID2 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:54:58 GMT

Ugh! My mom NEVER cooked with bacon grease! I would never cook with bacon grease. Sorry, but this is one of the reasons for half our health problems.