I have nearly a quart of bacon fat and don't know what to do with it

Drink it.

Stop eating bacon until you figure out what to do with it.

Mix it with some protein powder in a blender and chug it. Then hit the gym.

Fired rice.

Use it to make salad dressings. That's my favorite use.

Use it to make suet for birds.

Well for one I'd stop pouring it down the drain when you don't use it - let it cool and then throw it in the trash instead.

Only thing I ever use bacon fat for is to fry eggs after I make the bacon in the cast iron skillet. Otherwise it's just not worth holding on to.

Slice up some potatoes and fry them in a pan using the bacon fat. You'll thank me afterwards ;)

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Make a bomb ass breakfast with it.

Luchashaq said:

Use it to make salad dressings. That's my favorite use.

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Deep fry it. Trust me it's good.

Oh wait it's liquid fat. Soak it in toast or something.

Edit: to be more serious, my parents used to spread it lightly on a piece of bread as a substitute for butter.

Then again I grew up in eastern Europe so i have no idea if that is normal behavior, I definitely haven't done it in like 20 years.

You can make some kick-ass cornbread with it

Undercut Homer Simpson and get into the grease selling business...but watch out for enraged Scotsmen!

Use it to cook instead of cooking oil? It works great. It is also good for salads.

Buy popcorn kernels and cook them with bacon grease. I have done it before and they taste amazing.

Yorkshire puddings
Panfried new potatoes
Salad dressings
Scrambled eggs (anything egg related really)

Use a tablespoon of it as the base for:

beans and rice
caldo verde, or any soup really.

Cook eggs in it, use it to grill cheesy sandwiches, basically think like a short order chef.

Eat it in a cinema...

I use it for cooking oil. Chicken tastes good when I use the bacon grease to grill it with vegetables.

Spread it all over yourself and swim the English Channel.

Grease up the wife for some quality good times.

throw that crap out

Just bought a cast iron skilled myself, so I'll be using some of the more serious tips from this thread too, hmm.

Fucking gross. Just throw it out.

Jerry said:

Scrambled eggs (anything egg related really)

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Damn, this. So good.

I'm already drooling.

Use it instead of butter to grease the pan for eggs. I use it all the time. In small amounts.

substitute it for the fat in any other recipe

baking something that uses butter? use bacon grease!

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You just melt the fat in a small sauce pan, and then basically use that as your oil/fat base.


I like to keep it simple, salt/pepper then usually one acidic ingredient either a little red wine vinegar, or a spicy brown mustard. That one goes really well with spinach salads.

I did a fancier one yesterday with diced habaneros and a smidge of mango juice.

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Whenever I cook bacon I save all the grease because that's a lot of food waste to just pour down the drain. I believe in using everything from the animal if you can and that includes the fat. I've used bacon fat to cook brussels sprouts plenty of times but I simply don't eat enough sprouts to use it all up. Sometimes I rub it on chicken when I roast it, but again, I'm not roasting chicken every day.

So, CulinERA - what do I do with all this bacon fat?

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Must be nice to live in a place where you can put bacon grease down the drain if you wish.

Use it to saute anything. Basically, use it in place of olive oil or canola oil when you're cooking.

throw it away.

Let's just stop everyone right here and say you should NEVER pour bacon grease down the drain. Unless you really enjoy paying plumbers. You always put it in a disposable container and throw it away when it's full. Which is what you should do now. If you don't want food waste, don't cook bacon.

Snort it

Pouring it down the drain should never be an option. That's how you end up with fatbergs.

Use it as the fat for roasting potatoes. I'm a vegetarian but when I wasn't, using duck fat to roast potatoes made them delicious.

Also yeah don't pour it down your drain. It's a nightmare for people to clean it.

fried bread. its not exactly the healthy alternative, but i love it compared to regular toast and shit. just let it render down in a hot skillet, throw a nice thick slice of bread in there (not your standard white bread, get a nice loaf of rye or sourdough, something hearty) and fry it up. ill usually fry both sides but thats not necessary. usually ill just stick with that as part of breakfast, but if i have all the accoutrements just make it a delivery system for other shit. i recently butchered some ducks and made a duck liver pate, so i carved up a loaf of Italian, made some bacon, fried the bread in the bacon fat, slapped some pate on that, threw on a few pieces of bacon, some white onion, boom. your mouth will smell like a sewer but its delicious.

otherwise, yes, just use it for other cooking things. brussel sprouts is a good choice, fried or scrambled eggs... ill sometimes cook burgers with it (got to be careful about the smoke alarms in my new place, but ill sear them in the bacon fat and throw them in the oven if i cant use the grill). the uses are literally as numerous as your imagination can manage.

Just use it as cooking fat. That's what I do. That grease is gold.

Make it into different molds and sell it as candles on Etsy.

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You just melt the fat in a small sauce pan, and then basically use that as your oil/fat base.


I like to keep it simple, salt/pepper then usually one acidic ingredient either a little red wine vinegar, or a spicy brown mustard. That one goes really well with spinach salads.

I did a fancier one yesterday with diced habaneros and a smidge of mango juice.

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Not in a million years would I have ever thought to try that out, you might have just started something. Thanks man! :)

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Let's just stop everyone right here and say you should NEVER pour bacon grease down the drain. Unless you really enjoy paying plumbers. You always put it in a disposable container and throw it away when it's full. Which is what you should do now. If you don't want food waste, don't cook bacon.

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Yep, a previously opened can (or hell even a coke can) will save you a visit from the plumbers.

Neck it in one.

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Make some shortcrust pastry and get some empanadas going.