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Started by Brad_bb, December 18, 2015, 12:03:58 PM

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Brad_bb

So I have about 6 gallons of bacon grease that I've collected over the last few years.  What to do with it?....  I could maybe mix it with sawdust from my mill and burn it in a bit at a time in bon fires? Any thoughts?  Not sure what other use it would have.
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sandhills

Mmmmmm bacon  food6, you must like it too for having 6 gallons!  Whenever I make it I just pour it over the dog's food, they like bacon too  ;D.

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LaneC

  People from miles around will come to your bonfire wondering where the bacon is ;D. Man, my wife would love that, she puts it in the green beans. I hope someone can come up with a good answer for you. Bear bait sounds real good though. If you do burn some, let us know if it pops when burning. This is an interesting subject and I am curious for some of the good answers that are sure to follow. If you have a mill, maybe smear some on some rust spots to keep from rusting more until you can buff the rust out and re-paint. That may attract rodents though. I don't know but good luck and let us know if you come up with a good idea. I doubt you could mix a quart to a tank of diesel for a tractor or something. This is going to drive me nuts thinking about this :D Good luck.
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beenthere

Quote from: Jeff on December 18, 2015, 12:41:41 PM
Is your house full of stacks of old newspapers and cats?

:D :D :D
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Chuck White

My Mom (bless her soul) used to always save bacon grease in the freezer, and during the Winter, she would scrape some out, melt it and then pour it into a dish and put it at the end of the bird feeder.

Most of the birds went for the grease before getting into the seeds.

Caution:  This happened once!  It warmed up one day, and the grease in the feeder got soft and 2 chickadee's got plastered with grease and couldn't fly, so Mom brought them inside and used a little Dawn and warm water to get them cleaned up, then they were let go!
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I'm having trouble imagining a stack of cats.     :D
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Ljohnsaw

Check YouTube for videos on how backpacker get rid of their grease with a bonfire.  Truly amazing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to6SlbvdX8U

Heat the grease to bubbling and pour a little bit of water in it.  The water immediately turns to steam and blasts the grease in the air where it ignites.
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Quote from: ljohnsaw on December 18, 2015, 03:32:08 PM
Check YouTube for videos on how backpacker get rid of their grease with a bonfire.  Truly amazing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to6SlbvdX8U

Heat the grease to bubbling and pour a little bit of water in it.  The water immediately turns to steam and blasts the grease in the air where it ignites.

And as we learned in firefighting school in the Navy, water on a grease fire is EXTREMELY dangerous.

Herb

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Lard is good with cooking almost anything and bacon grease can be substituted for lots of it. We keep all our bacon grease but it keeps finding its way back into the pan for doing pancakes, scrambled eggs, etc... really good for vegetable stir fry or mushrooms....... I haven't talked my wife into trying it for pie crusts but then again taste would affect that. Deep frying bear sign! Now that would be great! Anyway we seldom ever have enough that we throw any out. Just seems to keep finding its way back into foods.........
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Ron Wenrich

You ought to have your wife make a shepard's pie or maybe mince pie.  The bacon grease in the crust would go great with the meats.
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OntarioAl

One  lady (she has passed on) up here would render it down with lye and make soap out of the bacon grease.
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Quote from: Brad_bb on December 18, 2015, 12:03:58 PM
So I have about 6 gallons of bacon grease that I've collected over the last few years.

How's your blood pressure?
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  Use a little of the fresh bacon grease in a cast iron skillet, cross cut a pack of beef hot dogs into 1/2" sections, fry till brown, add a coarsely chopped up head of cabbage (or swamp cabbage if you are in central/south Fla and it is available) and fry till brown. Serve with hot, fresh cornbread corners. I often slice a couple strips of bacon into 1" slices and fry to get the fresh bacon grease for this. Just leave the bacon in with the hot dogs and cabbage.

(My wife found I prefer the corners of the cornbread and has made it in a round pan ever since just for spite - now that's a mean woman! Sort of like the ones who take the TV remote when they go on 2 weeks vacation without you)
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Brad_bb

No stacks of newspaper.  I don't have any cats now, but maybe in the future.  Blood pressure is perfect.  No bears in this part of the country.  My mill is only a year and a half old and lives indoors so no rust on it at all.

Here in the farmhouse, when it was renovated in the mid 70's,  grand parents put in an electric cook top so there is an empty double cabinet below.  I have a bunch of quart glass jars in there that I have filled with the bacon grease over time.  I'm now running out of room.  I wish I knew someone who could use it for soap.  I could easily heat heat each jar in a water bath and dump it through a filter into one container and let it cool.  The liquid oil would be on top and the grease on bottom and would then be easy to separate. 

What can I use as a larger container?

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Jeff

I wonder if you could put a hole in a jar lid and insert a wick. Thinking a long lasting candle. You'd need to like the smell of bacon, which you clearly do. ;)
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sandsawmill14

we never have enough bacon grease use it in cooking bean, turnip greens, cornbread and pretty much everything else  ;D far as what to put it in if you can find a lard stand thats what its made for. its a steel can with lid that will hold 5-6 gal  our local grocery store stocks  :)
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Jeff

I'd have to be concerned about that amount if bacon grease as a foodstuff. Especially that that started out the collection. I don't think bacon grease has an unlimited shelf life unless it had been strained and filtered before storage, and then, I'd think not.
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Brad_bb

No, If I was going to use it for cooking, I'd want to refrigerate or freeze it.  Unfortunately no room in my freezer for more than 1 jar.  I'm wondering there is a good way to extract the heat energy out of it.  like mixing it with saw dust and burning in wood stove?  I don't know if that would create a soot problem, or if it would burn too hot?
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beenthere

Give it a try. We'd be interested in the outcome too.
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kensfarm

Quote from: Brad_bb on December 19, 2015, 09:20:23 PM
  Unfortunately no room in my freezer for more than 1 jar.

That must be a tiny freezer.. you probably keep bacon in the one jar that will fit!   ;D

I wonder if you could make some of those camp fire logs..   or log feeder.. the outside wildlife would eat it.. raccoon, possums, skunks. 

Jeff

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If you heat it up smoking hot and dump it down a giant ant nest, they really enjoy it. You can hear them making popcorn down there.
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sharp edge

We tell people to smear bacon grease on their tents to keep the bears away. :D

Just boil it down with water, let it cool, the good stuff will go to the top. Make soap out of it.

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You might be surprised how long it will last...
My brother bought a factory to use as a textile factory.
It was a bakery. When the old man that ran it died over 20 years ago
his wife just shut it down. Food still in the ovens and on the conveyor's.
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Brad_bb

I have other stuff in the freezer and little room left.

That log looks like a workable idea, the only question is I then have to find newspaper.  Do they still sell newspaper anymore? I was a paper boy as a kid.  But the local paper is so thin these days...I'll have to find someone saving the Sunday Chicago Tribune, the only paper left that is big enough to yield any amount of paper.
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tractorman44

Bacon grease could possibly be used to make soap, but because the bacon is cooked at a much higher temperture than the fat scraps are cooked to make lard, the by-product may be scorched.  Lard is best for used for cooking or soapmaking if it is rendered at no more than 250 degrees in the kettle...or so my dad always said. 

The bacon-grease soap may have an odd odor that may best be used on really greasy grimy hands as a pre wash before you jump in the shower if it has the telltale 'odd' smell. There is hardly a better product for shop greased hands than old home made lye soap. 

We started making it again last butchering season.

drobertson

Mine bacon grease goes in a empty 1lb coffee container, then makes it way to the fire pit, I've wondered the same as to using saw dust too, it's just easier to put in some twigs and grease and torch it off, and start the collection over again.
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trapper

Mine goes on top of the dry cat food.
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Polly

 :) wife just went to the local slaughter house and bought a 100 pounds of fat meat she ended up with 25 quarts of lard she uses it for cooking it is the only thing to use to make good pie crust if you research it on int. it is really good for you . of course it is not pollitacilly correct if everyone went back to using what was good for them some of big food mfg would go out of business . personally i am 77 and still kicking raised on lard  :D  :D 

terrifictimbersllc

Mix it with sawdust and/or planer shavings and use it as a fire starter.  Many easy fires all winter this way.

Or use it to make suet if you like bird watching from the living room.
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