What to do with bacon grease after you've cooked your bacon
Well, I'll tell you what I do. I mean, what do you do with leftover bacon grease
Do you pour it down the drain? No, no, no, don't pour it down the drain
Do you pour it in the trash? No, no, no, don't pour it in the trash
do you dump it out in the yard in the grass no no no don't do that either so what do i do with
bacon grease after i've cooked bacon in it and i have the bacon grease left over well there's two
things that i do i have a grease can that was my mother's and it has a strainer in the top of it
where you can pour your hot grease in it and it'll strain the bacon bits and the other particles out
of your grease into the can. And it would look like that right there Okay so that mainly what I do most of the time but if I want to save more grease which I do a lot of times there two ways of going about doing that You can use a paper coffee filter and just
kind of poke that down in there. You can add, you know, your ring to your lid and do it that way
or you can take like a funnel for canning, a canning funnel, wide mouth canning funnel like this
and you can pour your grease down in there but i don't usually use a coffee filter because it's
paper and if you tear the paper or whatever if it pokes a hole in it then all your particles your
bacon bits and the sugar and different things like that that burns in there that's what mainly burns
in your skillet when you're cooking bacon is the sugar that's on the bacon and so if you tear your
paper filter then all that's going to go in there and you've got to redo the whole process again so
What I basically like to do is use cheesecloth. If you have a piece of cheesecloth
then you just take your cheesecloth, poke that down in there real good like that
Take and add your funnel like this right here And then just take your warm bacon grease and just pour that into your funnel and it so much neater you don spill near as much that way and you don
take a chance in ripping the paper and all those other particles getting down into your bacon grease
and so it filters out all that stuff all the particles and everything real good
and then once you're done you have all these particles left in here bacon bits bacon particles
burnt pieces where you cooked your bacon and then you can just take and discard that and so there
you have you have your bacon grease stored in a jar where you can save that for later for when
you're wanting to cook I mean bacon grease is so great for seasoning you can add that into
you know vegetable dishes or whatever like if you're cooking cornbread or something like that
Any recipe that requires you add an oil to, if you want to step your game up and step up your flavor and someone asks you, what do you got in that
If you add bacon grease to it a lot of times it will change the flavor and it will be so good Everybody loves bacon We love bacon so you get your grease for free
Cook your bacon in your skillet and don't throw that away. And certainly don't throw it in the, and dump it into the sink
Don't dump it in the trash. Don't dump it out in the yard. But be sure and strain it into a jar like this
Save it. And then all you have to do is just add your lid to it
You can put it in the refrigerator. you can leave it out open and you can certainly even freeze it if you wanted to and then you'll
have good bacon grease from here on out so with that being said folks what i do with my leftover
bacon grease is i don't throw it away i strain it and i keep it i use it in other recipes
i use it for seasoning my cast iron skillets and dutch ovens and things like that but you want to
certainly strain this out and that way it won't turn rancid on you for a good long time you can
keep this for several months and it'll be just fine. So, you know, with that being said, hey
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