Kitchen

[Sunshine Kate]

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

[DoneTryin]

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.

[sunshine45]

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.

[Barbarainnc]

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.

[depglass]

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.

[goodstuff]

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.

[Barbarainnc]

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??

[Sooner]

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!!!

[Georgiagrama]

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.

[forrestwolf]

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........