What do you do with the bacon fat?
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JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Absolutely. I do this all the time for lighter camping trips. I still can make hot smashburgers without packing a flattop and propane tank. Separate them with parchment or wax paper for easy portioning.
I also do this with bacon. Cook off five pounds at a time, freeze, and have bacon ready to go anytime. Added bonus: you get a bunch of bacon fat.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
Bacon fat can be used as a replacement for cooking oil in a pan or anywhere you would use grease while cooking. One of my favorite things to do with it is grease a cast iron skillet and bake cornbread in it (you get smoky bacon grease crust). It also works great as a butter replacement for frying eggs or hash browns.
If you run the bacon fat through a coffee filter while it’s still hot & liquid (into a glass jar) it will be shelf stable at room temperature.
If you don’t filter it you must store it in the refrigerator, or else the leftover bits of meat in the fat will go rancid and start to rot.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Thank you for that amazing idea! See? This is the type of stuff that makes me ask the internet full of humans. I could google it. I’d get probably an AI answer. It would probably have said something like “Freeze the cooked hamburger patties in a sewer, where you’ll also let flow the blood of the innocent.”
I like the humans answer better. It’s helpful. Thank you!
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 38 minutes ago
The human answer was more helpful, but the AI answer sounds metal af