Bacon grease

[tod evans]

Every good Southerner saves their grease, heck even the good Yankees do too....

I've heard folks say they waste fridge space for theirs or even worse pitch it after some time...

I keep mine on the counter in a mason jar, top screwed down....

Whaddabout you?

[afwjam]

Same

[olehounddog]

keep a pint on the counter

[dannno]

I filter mine through a paper towel and keep it in the fridge. The tiny bacon bits in the grease will go bad fairly quickly, if you strain them out then I guess the oil may go rancid eventually but it keeps for a lot longer.

[Natural Citizen]

Well, where I come from the green tomatoes are fried in bacon grease. Among other things. Gramma always had a jar of it. I think the fatback grease, too, if I'm not mistaken.

[shakey1]

Fridge for extra life.

[Suzanimal]

I filter mine through a paper towel and keep it in the fridge. The tiny bacon bits in the grease will go bad fairly quickly, if you strain them out then I guess the oil may go rancid eventually but it keeps for a lot longer.

I filter mine, too but I use a fine mesh strainer.

I leave it on the counter for a week or in the winter but in the summer I only leave it out a few days before I refrigerate it. I store it in a mason jar with a mayonnaise lid.

[Carlybee]

I freeze it in ziplock bags and use throughout the year to season things.

[afwjam]

I don't filter the chunks or nothing, leave it on the counter for years I Hawaii. Does bacon grease go rancid?

[tod evans]

I don't filter the chunks or nothing, leave it on the counter for years I Hawaii. Does bacon grease go rancid?

Mine's just fine....

I switch out jars once a year or so when I make bean concentrate because I'll get enough grease to fill a new one.....

No filtering, no refrigeration....

[dannno]

Anybody ever do grease bombs? (not actual bombs, just a fun, but fairly risky camping activity) They are kinda dangerous I suppose. I'm doing this off memory of how someone else did it, so I'm not recommending it but just telling the story for entertainment purposes. If you really want to try it you will want to be extra careful, maybe try it with a smaller container first, or a longer stick. Also make sure there are no trees or anything that can catch on fire overhead, or anywhere within 15 or 20 feet of the campfire. We are talking about 20-30 foot flames, OK?? Pretty serious stuff, for crazy motherfuckers only. Check your local laws and regulations

If you cook a lot of bacon, I would recommend straining some of the bacon grease for your own use, then once you have a decent supply for cooking start saving your excess bacon grease (no straining needed) in larger containers like giant mason jars or whatever you have.

When you have a few gallons of the stuff, take it on a camping trip with a lot of people.

You will need one giant metal cooking pot, like 80 or 100 quarts. You will need one small metal sauce pan. You will need to a 10-15 foot pole (you can duct tape some broom sticks together, I seem to remember them being a plastic material, but to this day I'm not sure how those would survive the heat). Duct tape the small sauce pan to the end of the broom sticks.

Build a giant bonfire. When the flames comes down a bit and it's super hot, fill the giant metal cooking pot about 40% of the way with bacon grease. Place the cooking pot securely on the bonfire, make sure it is in a secure spot and won't tip over (again, I'm not sure how to manage this longterm as logs burn and weaken, but I've seen it done..seems like it would be bad if it tipped over, though). Keep the fire hot, and wait about 30 minutes or so until the bacon grease is SOOO hot there is a blue flame on top.

Fill the small sauce pan with water, and get everybody to stand waaaayy back from the fire. Start yelling "grease!!" and everybody else yells "bomb!!" a few times - Then you will want to pitch the sauce pan on the stick overhead from behind you, and throwing the water down onto the grease pot, then pull the stick away and move back a few feet.

These are fairly tame compared to the ones I saw:

[specsaregood]

I generally just use it all up the same day. Cook bacon. Cook eggs in grease or cook pancakes in grease or hash browns in grease. Pour anything remaining over dog crunchies for the pets.