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Title: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: Hub on August 30, 2013, 12:30:14 PM: My first thought when I saw the headline of this article was "what leftover bacon grease?" Unless I've got an awful lot of it, I just sop it up with whatever is convenient . . .

http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/6-ways-leftover-bacon-grease-143900585.html

Some of these uses are pretty common. Others may be more creative. Got any more good ones???

Hub
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: Ka Honu on August 30, 2013, 12:53:44 PM: Uh, how could you make cornbread if you didn't have bacon grease?
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: muebe on August 30, 2013, 02:27:40 PM: Good for shining up your car tires ???
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: Wingman on August 30, 2013, 07:48:36 PM: Ah, there is no such thing as leftover bacon grease.
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: ACW3 on August 30, 2013, 09:23:10 PM: I always use it as part of my hot German potato salad. I did flavor some JD with it, once. I keep good bacon grease that has been strained of any big pieces of leftover bacon, or whatever, just in case I need to kick up a recipe a bit.

Art
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: Smokin Don on August 30, 2013, 10:36:12 PM: I don't use it as much as I used to. Pop your corn with it, the best popcorn you'll ever have! I garontee!!!
Don
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: teesquare on August 30, 2013, 10:40:45 PM: Quote from: muebe on August 30, 2013, 02:27:40 PM
Good for shining up your car tires ???

Is that why dogs are SO magnetic to your truck Mike? :D :D :D

Quote from: Smokin Don on August 30, 2013, 10:36:12 PM
I don't use it as much as I used to. Pop your corn with it, the best popcorn you'll ever have! I garontee!!!
Don

THAT sounds like a fantastic use for it Don!
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: TMB on August 30, 2013, 10:42:47 PM: Quote from: Smokin Don on August 30, 2013, 10:36:12 PM
I don't use it as much as I used to. Pop your corn with it, the best popcorn you'll ever have! I garontee!!!
Don
??? ??? ??? If my doctor read this he would have a fit ???
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: UWFSAE on August 30, 2013, 11:11:22 PM: My mom always did home fries in bacon fat and they are a rare, but memorable, treat now that I'm in my 40's. I also find that congealed bacon fat makes an excellent binding agent for rubs on pork loins, briskets, and even poultry ... the flavor is subtle but there.

And, though I lack the baking skills to attempt this, I'm thinking of asking my girl to make this for me: http://thinking-with-your-stomach.blogspot.com/2011/05/infamous-bacon-bread-not-suitable-for.html

Click through that link at your own peril.
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: sliding_billy on August 31, 2013, 03:32:05 PM: It isn't left over for very long, that's all I know.
Title: Re: 6 Uses For Leftover Bacon Grease?
Post by: veryolddog on August 31, 2013, 03:45:32 PM: I have used it in the past on cast iron pots and pans to re-season them. Just save it in the fridge in one of the old canning jars.

Ed