Comments on: Blessed Be The Lard

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:15:11 +0000

Our friend is making SOAP out of bacon grease! *yuck* I’m not kidding. you can google- how to make soap from bacon grease.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:16:40 +0000

Hilarious! I am southern and I cannot keep bacon drippings. It absolutely grosses me out! There’s no way I could keep it for a few days and then use it again! My 84 year old granny does that and it makes me want to chuck!

You are very funny! I love the pimple story too! You are writing about all of the same things that happen to me! I’ve had an eyebrow pimple and I feel your pain!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:53:21 +0000

I do the same thing, with the fat from sausage, bacon, or hamburger, but I put it in a tin can, while it’s still hot, and keep it in the freezer, and when the can gets full, I throw it away and start a new one. It works really well!

By: Mommy, the Human Napkin

Mommy, the Human Napkin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:29:32 +0000

My husband tried to convince me to keep the bacon fat in a coffee mug in the fridge, but then one time I left it out on the counter, and then mice got into it overnight. I could see the little teeth marks and there were droppings in it. I threw it away, mug and all, and have never saved bacon grease again. I dump it off the edge of the back porch when I’m done cooking the bacon. My bacon cooking skills are a completely different story, though. I don’t know if you’d call it cooking, exactly. Does “blackening” count as cooking?

By: tgabc

tgabc — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:28:55 +0000

This totally cracks me up. Obviously I’m not from the South as I’ve never heard of saving bacon grease!

By: Megan at Sortacrunchy

Megan at Sortacrunchy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:40:12 +0000

This is what my mother always did with bacon grease (she actually poured it in an empty frozen juice can and froze it, then tossed it, but whatever . . .) and I honest-to-goodness didn’t know there was anything else to do with bacon grease until I was in college. Great tip!

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:27:30 +0000

I’ve been frying alot of bacon lately since we’re REALLY enjoying BLT’s once a week or so since tomatoes have been so good. I keep an old mayo jar in the refrigerator and I pour the grease into the jar. Once the jar fills us, I throw the old thing away. Easy.

By: Laurie in TN

Laurie in TN — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:08:18 +0000

I save my grease, too. But, I just leave it in the skillet. And use it the next time I cook in the skillet, like eggs or potatoes. But, I don’t have a whole container of lard. Should try it sometime. . .my mom used to save her bacon grease all the time.

Sometimes I give it to the dogs in their dog food (after it cools). . . probably shouldn’t!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:47:19 +0000

Nothing like bacon cooking in the morning..mmm…yum! I don’t save my grease but always feel like I’m sinning or something when I throw it out. I try to make gravy but some how or other I missed the gravy making gene…at least not white gravy, now brown gravy is a different story. Mmm…I’ve got a package of bacon in the fridge now we just might have to have some Sat. for breakfast. *

By: Sincerely Anna

Sincerely Anna — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:49:04 +0000

Weird – I just posted about this very topic last week minus the bacon part. I used to save the grease too until one day my kitchen smelled like I don’t know what. Oh. My. Lard. Yuck!