Save that bacon grease!

Add a teaspoon to the pot when you cook beans or greens. Heck bacon grease is just plum necessary to down-home soul-food cooking.

~Mmmmm.I forgot about that! My mama makes awesome salt pork and limas. Soul food! I'll try it with green beans because thats what I have.~

I save mine and use it alot. I figure it's gotta be more natural than margarine and crisco!

i like to fry eggs in it. yum

Its also good to use on scrapes and cuts on your pets, My horse went thru a fence had a nice size gash that was stitched up and they didn't hold. put bacon grease on it every day healed up with miminal scarring if you didnt know it was there you wouldn't see it.

I remember my mom always having a coffee can in the fridge w/ grease in it ~ I've never tried it ~ I usually give the bacon/beef grease to the dogs (mixed in with their food) -

thanks for the tip ~ I'll try it ---

I often scramble eggs in the bacon pan, but if not, I save the grease and use it for frying potatoes or making potato soup. Yum!

I like to take a couple of tablespoons of greese and add some flour, salt, pepper and milk and make a gravy for biscuits. We love it! I save the greese to add to other things too!

I agree! Bacon grease makes the best fried eggs and I concur with the greens suggestion. Everything in moderation including moderation, lol!

Bacon grease squicks me out uck:

YankeeMom said:

Bacon grease squicks me out

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~Ha!Then you've probably never had pork cracklins? Thats pork skin and fat salted and oven baked until crisp. Man it's gross, but it's so good that I don't care!~

Goodness, I use it all the time. It's a staple in "Real" southern cooking. I fry with it, use it in peas in beans, greens, stewed or fried cabbage and I keep a mason jar of it in the fridge to add just a little to my biscuits. Around here, you're just as likley to get a call from a neighbor asking if you have some bacon grease they can borrow just as much as a request for eggs, sugar or milk, LOL.

Oh, next time you make homemade cornbread, try adding a little to the batter before baking. Or, fry up some hoe cakes in it. Yummy!!!!!!!

I always save it and use it for seasoning beans, greens and for cooking eggs. I love bacon. :chef2:

nuisance26 said:

~Ha!Then you've probably never had pork cracklins? Thats pork skin and fat salted and oven baked until crisp. Man it's gross, but it's so good that I don't care!~

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LOL, my grandma made her own cracklins when we butchered the hogs. She fried them though in lard and I would burn my fingers eating them while they were still hot. You can find them here in the grocery store where they sell the sausage, hog head cheese (souse meat), and hot dogs. There is nothing like a chunk of cracklin corn bread and a big bowl of collard greens. I've got a big bag in the freezer now. We always have collard greens w/ham hocks and cracklin corn bread on the table at Christmas.

Mmmm... I use it a lot. Eggs, of course. I use a bit to saute green beans in before adding water to boil. I saute minute rice with some onions and green pepper in a little grease before adding tomato sauce and spices for spanish rice, awesome flavor. What tickles me, though, is a use it quite liberally when making fried potatoes. At family dinners I get too many requests for my friend potatoes, obviously I'm the only one in my family that saves the bacon grease. Or else they be just clueless, haha. So many uses... so little time. *sigh*

nuisance26 said:

~Ha!Then you've probably never had pork cracklins? Thats pork skin and fat salted and oven baked until crisp. Man it's gross, but it's so good that I don't care!~

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No, are they anything like pork rinds? I like those...although not when I'm in the south..the sell them with the hairs still on it uck: LOL

I use it for eggs, green beans and frying potatoes. YUMMM

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No, are they anything like pork rinds? I like those...although not when I'm in the south..the sell them with the hairs still on it uck: LOL

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~Hairy fat...Yum! Yeah, I was talking about southern pork rinds. Hair and all. I can't explain why I love 'em because they should make me want to hurl, lol!~

Those pork rinds with the hair sound gross!! lol. My mom always had a can of bacon grease and cooked with it. She always added it to green beans and seasoned a lot of things with it. I've never used it. I thought it would be unhealthy, but maybe not (in moderation of course). It does give food a good flavor.