Kitchen

[Franklinbell]

@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

[Franklinbell]

@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!!

[JeanLouiseFinch]

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@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.  👍🏾

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@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.

[cjm61]

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

[sunshine45]

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. 

[Jk9]

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.

[Tinkrbl44]

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.

[Roscoe the Rascal]

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.  

[Bonkers1]

I don't but my mom did.

[PinkyPetunia]

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.