I have a bunch of saved up bacon grease. Should I fry something in it?

Leftover oil has food particles in it. Would you eat a cheeseburger that's been on the counter since then?

1) Keep refrigerated.

2) Items that can be cooked in this are numerous. Breakfast classics such as fried eggs and homefries come to mind. Greasing the baking pan for corn bread is another excellent use. Also can be used to brown pork chops, roast, etc before baking, braising, what have you.

Eggs are the best. And, while they are cooking, spoon it over the top to cook the yokes. Afterwards, soak-up any left-over grease on your plate with your toast. Just use your toast like a spatula on the plate.

My bad i was thinking of vegtable shortening.

The best so far is still the vegetarian cheesecake. My suggestion (requires wife/girlfriend):

1) Heat grease to liquid

2) Empty bottle of _____ product used by significant other (preferably a fancy facewash or something thick like that)

3) Fill with liquid bacon grease, then cool enough to solidify

4) Place in shower or cabinet discreetly, as close to time of use as possible

5) Crack open a cold one, sit back on the couch and wait for it

Instructions:

1. Wait for icy-cold, bone-chilling day.

2. Rub said bacon grease all over face.

3. Run in an area where they might be potentially dangerous wildlife.

Results:

1. The grease protects you from the wind chill on your face, saving yourself from potential chapping.

2. You have a little treat to snack on once you start sweating and it runs down to your lips.

3. You get a great lactate threshold run in if the dangerous wildlife sniffs you out and chases you.

Instructions:

1. Wait for icy-cold, bone-chilling day.

2. Rub said bacon grease all over face.

3. Run in an area where they might be potentially dangerous wildlife.

Results:

1. The grease protects you from the wind chill on your face, saving yourself from potential chapping.

2. You have a little treat to snack on once you start sweating and it runs down to your lips.

3. You get a great lactate threshold run in if the dangerous wildlife sniffs you out and chases you.

You can refrigerate it all you want but it still has cooked food particles left over since May. There's a limit on keeping used oil and it's not seven months.

You can run bacon grease in a diesel converted to run on vegetable oil (less specifically, fat), I have done it. I bet you could run a string through it and call it a candle. You could have the classic american breakfast smell whenever you want it.

my buddy dave will eat it! for 3 dollars each, you can all come into the room and watch!

Its not too hard or expensive to convert waste oil into biodiesel. You can take the leftover glycerol and make soap or candles. I would explain the process but it might be better to just post the wikipedia link. Youll need to buy methanol. The cost seems to have been fluctuating a lot lately. With the "recent" burst of the oil bubble. Im not sure if this would rival the cost of gas but you could be one step closer to being energy independent and sustainable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel_production

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You can refrigerate it all you want but it still has cooked food particles left over since May. There's a limit on keeping used oil and it's not seven months.

The grease should seal in the food particles and help preserve them. It is traditional practice to preserve meat in fat (terrines, confit, etc.) If it was in the fridge, I think it will be OK. On the counter, probably not so good.

To the OP: get blind drunk this weekend. The next morning, fry some eggs in the bacon grease. There is nothing better than eggs in bacon grease when you're hung over.

I like the cheescake/vegetarian idea. My favorite so far.

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txRUNNERgirl wrote:

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Drain a can or two of beans (but save the liquid). Pintos or black beans are the go-to guys here, but really any kind will work. Chop up a couple cloves of garlic if you're feeling ambitious.

Heat up two or three tablespoons of bacon grease in a nice big frying pan on very high heat. Throw in the garlic, if you're using it. When it's just starting to get a tiny bit golden, throw in the beans. Start smashing with a potato masher--if you don't have one, use the back of a spoon or fork. Keep smashing.

Once it's all smashed up (or even while you're still working on getting it smashed), start scraping the bottom of the pan. Keep frying and scraping for a long, long, time, much longer than you think you need to. The beans will become very stiff. When you've decided you're done, turn the heat way down and add the liquid. Stir it in, still scraping occasionally. You'll probably need a bit more liquid (water) to get the consistency you want.

Eat. With rice, tortillas, chips, whatever.

I usually fry day old grits in saved up bacon grease. Damn good, I tell ya' what.