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My grandmother used to save it and use it. It's basically bacon flavored lard. She used to fry chicken in it, and used it as the base for the roux in her white fried chicken gravy, (aka Country Gravy or Pepper Gravy).
I have one of her recipes for wilted lettuce salad, (the only salad my grandfather would eat), which calls for hot bacon fat, mixed with sugar and vinegar, to be poured over tender leaf lettuce.
I DON'T dump bacon fat down the garbage disposal, because I don't imagine it would be good for the pipes in this building, but I DO save a plastic jar with a lid when I buy bacon, so that I can dump the fat in there and then throw it in the trash.
Butter, bacon fat, and pure lard are the least healthy fats. It is better and safer to use olive oil in recipes that call for butter.
I like the idea of putting a little bit on cat food, but I wouldn't do that if the bacon contains nitrates...because the nitrates in bacon are carcinogens. They have Applegate Farms bacon without nitrates.
I have one of her recipes for wilted lettuce salad, (the only salad my grandfather would eat), which calls for hot bacon fat, mixed with sugar and vinegar, to be poured over tender leaf lettuce.
I DON'T dump bacon fat down the garbage disposal, because I don't imagine it would be good for the pipes in this building, but I DO save a plastic jar with a lid when I buy bacon, so that I can dump the fat in there and then throw it in the trash.
Butter, bacon fat, and pure lard are the least healthy fats. It is better and safer to use olive oil in recipes that call for butter.
I like the idea of putting a little bit on cat food, but I wouldn't do that if the bacon contains nitrates...because the nitrates in bacon are carcinogens. They have Applegate Farms bacon without nitrates.
