Do you keep a jar of bacon fat on your counter?

I do. Most cooking starts with that.

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My grandmother used to do that. She was a farm wife, and she would fry her chicken in that bacon fat, and use it as a base for her white chicken gravy with crispins.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou Most of the older women would collect bacon fat and use for cooking, remembering the grease cans on the counter tops back in the 60’s and 70’s.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti You actually had to cook bacon...almost every day, too, and use it up before it went rancid. I can't even imagine what the insides of their arteries looked like. But my grandfather, who adored bacon, lived to 93.

SW-User

@4meAndyou there’s been a change in how all of that is viewed. There is no proven correlation between ingestion of saturated fat and congestive heart disease. The worst fats are the ones that blow apart when heated.

4meAndyou · F

@SW-User Well, I do think genetics play a role also. My grandfather chain smoked and had two kinds of cancer that were cured, and had a long life and still ate bacon and eggs every morning, wilted lettuce salad, and pie, pie, pie all the time. Lard crust.