how do y'all store your bacon grease, and what do you use it on?

I don't keep it, but I should. My mom kept it in a pint jar in the cabinet above the stove. Keep it in the fridge just to be safe I guess but the shite will last forever.

Eta: oh, and just use it like u would crisco.

In a crock in the fridge, unstrained.

When was the last time you tried to flavor a dish with Crisco? Sauteeing veggies in it provides the dish with the oil needed to fry and infuses it with the smoke/hickory element from the bacon too.

I store it in the fridge and use it to add a small amount of smokiness to stuff like..

mac and cheese - just lightly saute the cracker or panko in bacon grease before putting it on top of the mac and cheese and then pop it all in the oven.

add a little to any cornbread or hushpuppies

also good to add some to your pan when cooking potato pancakes

It's best to keep it refrigerated because it does not last forever. It will go rancid relatively quick. I don't strain it but do keep a mason jar and use it quite a bit.

The reason our parents and grandparents kept it out was because they probably started out without refrigeration and the reason it typically didn't go bad was because they used it everyday with everything so it had a good turnover.

Make cornbread batter, put black skillet in 350 oven with a tablespoon of bacon grease until hot, add cornbread batter cook until done.

Last night I painted some on some big thick steakhouse style burgers just before i seared them.

Mine sits in a Pyrex beaker (so I can pour it up hot) on the warming shelf over my stove. Never have stored it in the fridge, and in all these years, never had it go rancid. Might be related to how much I use.

I strain it through a mesh filter directly into my mason jar which sits in the fridge.


I use it every now and then when I am sauteeing trinity or cooking fried eggs. I use it as a substitute for oil or butter when I want a lil bacon flavor in the dish.

I don't store it but the best meal I ever had with it was this...

Lucy wanted 3 pieces of bacon. After frying and removing the bacon I wanted to use the pan to saute a fake crab cake to make a sammich with round bread.

Instead of pouring out the grease I just dropped the crab cake in the pan, sauteed and slipped onto the bun with tartar sauce. Flavor was terrific. Will do again.

mason jar (small) in the fridge door. use it for corn bread and brussel sprouts occasionally, not like when we were kids and it sat on the back of the stove for daily use.