topic Re: Bacon Grease in Kitchen

Bacon Grease

bargainsgirl — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:29:59 GMT

Do you save it and cook with it? If so, how do you store it? I just read where it is not as bad for you as you think...huh, what isn't bad for you to some degree...

Re: Bacon Grease

Etoile308 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:42:18 GMT

The only time I use bacon grease is when making bacon and eggs. Cook the bacon, remove most grease then using same pan leave just enough so eggs don't stick.

Re: Bacon Grease

deepwaterdotter — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:49:35 GMT

I save some in a smaller Lock 'n' Lock container in the freezer.

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Sooner — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:51:48 GMT

No, I don't save it or use it, and my mom (50's and 60's cook) never did either.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:59:50 GMT

Bacon grease is gold in our house. I make bacon weekly. I bake it on parchment lined sheet pans. I pour the grease into a glass jar and let it cool on the counter until I can handle it. Then it goes in the fridge. If there's any left when I'm making a new batch of bacon, the jar comes out of the fridge to come to room temperature and I'll add the new grease to the jar.

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gulf coast girl — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:08:30 GMT

Heck yes, I have a lock n lock full of it in my fridge.

I use it whenever I make naked beans, you know when you jazz up a can of pork n beans, you add chopped onion, some brown sugar, garlic, catsup. a squueze of mustard, and a glob of bacon grease on the top. Yum

OI add it to green beans with some rinsed off canned potatoes, some chopped onion, a sprinkling of sugar, salt and pepper and a garlic clove, and a glob of bacon grease.

I chop up cabbage and fry the cabbage in some bacon grease!!!!

Add a drizzle to my dogs dry dog food, Makes them scarf it up, because they get tired of the same ole stuff. They love it.

I save all the bacon grease grease and use it constantly, haven't had a heart attack yet.

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Susan Louise — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:17:32 GMT

We save it and use it to cook with. I store it in Lock & Lock containers...none of it goes to waste.

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gtx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:53:15 GMT

@gulf coast girl I love your uses for bacon grease. I am going to try them.

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drizzellla — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:36:26 GMT

I hadn't been saving bacon grease UNTIL recently a recipe that I was making said to use bacon grease. What a tasty difference it made in the recipe. So I now save a small glass container of the bacon grease.

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Mz iMac — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:41:35 GMT

Being raised by southern parents, I guess I'm the only person "up north" who keeps bacon grease in a tin can on top corner of stove top. I don't know anyone who keeps it in the fridge.

@gulf coast girl "Add a drizzle to my dogs dry dog food, Makes them scarf it up, because they get tired of the same ole stuff. They love it."

Great minds think alike. 👍🏾

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Franklinbell — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:52:50 GMT

@gulf coast girl you make the cabbage and I will come with a fork!! I havent had great cabbage since my mom passed. I will even stop off and buy cookies or cake or brownies!! lol

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Franklinbell — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:55:46 GMT

@Mz iMac My mom and both grandmohters kept it on top of the stove also. She used is so ofen it never sat around long. I had a "friend" that like me just for my mom's cooking! Believe it or not we are still great freinds today!!

Re: Bacon Grease

JeanLouiseFinch — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:25:32 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
Being raised by southern parents, I guess I'm the only person "up north" who keeps bacon grease in a tin can on top corner of stove top. I don't know anyone who keeps it in the fridge.

@gulf coast girl "Add a drizzle to my dogs dry dog food, Makes them scarf it up, because they get tired of the same ole stuff. They love it."
Great minds think alike. 👍🏾

@Mz iMac I actually always left mine out until I read that after a week or so the little bit of bacon in the mix could make it go bad. that's when I moved it to the fridge. If I ever bothered to strain it well, I'd leave it out.

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cjm61 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:50:04 GMT

Yep, I save it in a grease keeper and store in the fridge. Have done it for years.

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sunshine45 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:59:14 GMT

i make bacon several times a week and i do save the grease.

its one of the few proteins my mother doesnt mind eating.

i keep it stored in the refrigerator in a silicone "pig."

i like using it for fried/sauteed potato dishes, eggs, some soups (especially soups with beans), cabbage, and more.

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Jk9 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:10:58 GMT

I save bacon grease and store it in a Grease Can first on the stove and then into the refrigerator. I cook with it some.

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Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:26:04 GMT

I don't even remember the last time I had bacon at home, as opposed to eating out, so possibly keeping the grease is a non-issue.

HOWEVER ..... last week I was looking at salad oils and saw packages of BACON GREASE, for sale in the grocery store. That was a first for me.

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Roscoe the Rascal — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:07:18 GMT

I never have and rarely have bacon but I made same potato soup the other day and cooked some bacon and it said use some bacon grease to sauté the onions. So I did.

Told my daughter as we were doing the soup about growing up and my friends mother always saved the bacon grease and she made the best fried chicken.

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Bonkers1 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:26:56 GMT

I don't but my mom did.

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PinkyPetunia — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:15:02 GMT

I rarely cook bacon but I do pour the grease into a small glass jar (from relish or jam) and keep it in the fridge. I add it to canned green beans or when I cook cabbage.