Do you save your rendered bacon fat? (red wine, ingredient, healthier)

[TabulaRasa]

Usually, but I don't cook bacon often. A few times a year, tops.

When I do, I keep the grease in a glass container in the fridge, and usually use it as the oil when making fried potatoes, or to grease the pan for savory cornbread. It's also great for popcorn popping.

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by TabulaRasa

...to grease the pan for savory cornbread...

Now, that's a great use for bacon fat. Heat the bacon fat in a cast-iron skillet, pour the cornbread batter into that sizzling pan, then back in the oven.

[TabulaRasa]

Yep. It's one of the few reasons I'll bust out cast iron.

[Sage 80]

No. I blot it with paper towels, which I throw away.

Although some of the ways other posters use it sure sounds good. I may try using it instead of butter when I fry eggs or make certain potato dishes.

[Jaggy001]

Best thing for bacon fat is to dip bread into it and eat or, if there is enough, to fry bread in it. Delicious!!!!

[mainebrokerman]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

I've yet to see an inorganic pig.

pigs, like chickens will eat the feces of other pigs/// thats what makes them organic... but its organic feces....no chemicals...and nitrites





i love bacon,,,,,, i usually take the bacon grease and put it on some other scraps......in a tupperware container....then throw it all out in the yard to feed the birds....





and if i have a chicken i will throw the carcass out and this big eagle will come over and start eating it,,,,,all the other birds back off when the eagle is there.....even the crows

[Nodpete]

Always use it to fry leftover potatoes .

[rodentraiser]

I haven't in the past, but that was when I was buying some of the cheaper bacon. I've now started spending a little more money on bacon. I've found when I get the more expensive bacon, it doesn't shrink as much or give me as much fat, but the fat that's there is clearer and tastes better when I use it.

So in the running battle between generic and brand names, I find the brand names and extra money to buy them is definitely not wasted on bacon.

[ccm123]

I rarely eat bacon.

[CSD610]

We rarely have bacon and when we do have the bacon it is not used for breakfast.
I cook the bacon, toss in onions and steamed brussels sprouts or steamed asparagus and warm it through.
After that the bacon fat cannot be used for anything else in my opinion.