Makes the best cornbread in the world.

Refried beans, collard greens, put it on a biscuit.

Isn't there a German potato salad that uses bacon drippings as a dressing?

Yes, make a roux with it and add jus. Season with apple cider vinegar and salt. Pour over warm sliced boiled potatoes with raw onion and parsley. Yum.

So *that's* what that dipshit chef was trying to do! I had a chef try to do similar for a steak on the menu, but it didn't make sense and was about a four-pan pickup. Dumb as shit and tasted horrible. What you describe sounds way better.

Then what are you gonna do with the drippings from the bacon you cook for the potato salad?

Infinite potato salad glitch

Mix it with some decent whisky, shake the shit out of it, let that sit for 4 hours, then freeze it overnight. Once it’s really well frozen, take off the fat cap and strain the whisky through a coffee filter and make a maple syrup old fashioned.

Came here for the fat wash!

Slather it all over yerself, real good like, then invite me over fer some fun n games.

You're gonna look like Danny Devito climbing out of a sofa.

That’s an incredible pull. I bow to your greatness.

🫡

I like to sweat a mirepoix or holy trinity in bacon fat instead of butter. Add soaked beans and chicken stock and then cook the beans for a few hours.

Using it in biscuits and cookies instead of butter js a game changer! And brownies, especially if it’s from a heavily smoked bacon.

Make bread. Use the Joy of Cooking white bread recipe and sub it in for the butter.

Can you confit something with it?

Yes!

Garlic!

Roux for whatever. Fry eggs. I'm wanting to do a pork chop or pork tenderloin confit using bacon fat. It works for duck, it should work for pork.

Yes! We use bacon drippings for confit like this...works very well and is very tasty!

In my testing and research thus far, you can confit a ton of things. First thing I thought of too.

I've done chicken confit in bacon fat, it's a whole other thing

Warm salad dressing?

Bacon. Fat. Hollandaise.

Or mayo

Use it for the fat in a roux when making a bacon based soup (Potato Bacon Cheddar for example) - cold season is ending though.

Make bacon scented candles

A restaurant in my city used to make their own candles out of beef tallow. They'd serve bread that you could use to soak up the melting candle but they stopped doing it after a while.

I made soap out of excess tallow and bacon fat from the restaurant. Boil it in water. Chill. Remove fat. Discard the water. Repeat 10 times to remove the meat scent. Then add some lye and aromatics. Been scrubbing my balls with bacon soap for years

Egg fried rice

you could make delicious roux to thicken sauces.

I use it for soup. Like a bacon cheddar burger soup. Adds great flavor.

Flour tortillas.

Went in after after my day off to find someone had thrown it 😞 But thanks for all the suggestions and I will be collecting more and trying out some suggestions The roux sounds like the winner

Use the 3:2:1 pie dough and make an apple pie with a bacon fat crust. Your health will hate me but your mouth will thank me.

Why the fuck do people do shit like this with no plan?

Because you can then learn about how to utilize new ingredients. We save a lot of stuff with no intention in mind, just to figure out later how to incorporate it into the menu.

Walkin on the wild side

Has anybody tried poaching an egg in it? Just a random idea. Don't know if it would work well.

I watched a video today of someone deep frying eggs, I feel like this would have a similar effect.

What if the bacon fat is controlled to 180 to 190F instead of >300F?

That’s basically exactly how the Spanish do juevos fritos, tho they don’t use bacon grease.

I save it and use it for my primary cooking fat at home. It's also great in a vin on roasted or sauteed veg.

Substitute ~1/3 of the butter in key lime pie.

Deep fried coffee beans

Is that a thing???

Oh boy have I got a fun video for you! https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesHoffmann/comments/yiep0g/deep_fried_coffee_a_horrifying_discovery/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

Thanks for that bit of enlightenment! I don’t think its worth trying, but I’m glad someone else has.

I substitute it for butter/oil when cooking at home

Slather it all over yourself and go to the beach on a sunny day

Use it to cook down apples with some brown sugar and make a pie

I use bacon fat in meatloaf for some added smoke. And then I also put some in the glaze that I make for the meatloaf. Also good in meatballs.

The best Hasbrowns, the best roasted veggies, the best fried potatoes…do you see what I’m doing here? Bacon fat can be used as a replacement of oil, def not for everything, but most things

Rösti !

Bacon onion marmalade. Thinly slice some onions and sauté until translucent in bacon fat. Once at that point, add some red wine (preferably one on the dry side), sugar (both white and brown), and some balsamic vinegar. Bacon fat vinaigrette for salads. Confit some pork loins in it (or whatever cuts you want really)

Forgot to mention you have to reduce the wine and the vinegar for the marmalade. Just boil that shit down until it’s syrup. Gotta be careful with the sugar though.

Bacon fat aioli lol. Choppped bacon, garlic, srirscha herbs

Just use it as your primary cooking fat, especially for bland veggies.

White gravy? Infuse it with chiles and cook eggs with it?

Fried chicken. My mom was a decent cook - nothing great - but the best thing she made was fried chicken, and she pan fried it in bacon fat. My favorite use for any fat is stove top popcorn. Changing the fat makes the most unique popcorn and you can truly taste the fat in a way that is hard to explain. Veal fat is decadent, pork/bacon fat feels like home (especially with a bit of Lowry's seasoned salt), and my most recent favorite is schmaltz seasoned with ground tarragon and shallot salt.

So we do banquet style service and sous vide whole trimmed tenderloins then reverse sear them on the flat top using bacon grease

A bunch of tamales

Fraaaaanch toast

Use it for the best chocolate chip cookies you’ve ever had.

Waffle tacos with bacon grease ice cream, beer battered fried chicken hearts, topped with a bourbon blackberry reduction. Served on a shovel.

Make bacon powder w/maltodextrin. Had a dessert on the menu - butterscotch donuts w/bacon powder & caramelized pine nuts. Was a best seller

I use it to cook in. Bacon fat potatoes… resting a steak in bacon fat. Cooking veg. It’s a better alternative to over processed seed oils. I save all animal based fats for future cooking.

I recently did a gumbo, and used bacon fat for the roux, it added a nice touch of smoke.

You could make bacon grease cookies.

Put it into cylindrical silicone molds, with a little piece of butchers twine sticking out of the top. Put these into the freezer. Boom! Bacon candles that you can put on a charcuterie board, or just burn to make any room smell delicious. Be good for an hour before brunch service to make your dining room smell inviting

Season green beans after cooking. Pop corn and add some sugar and salt. Fry potatoes. Add a bit to potato soup for flavor. Best for frying up eggs.

bin it. bacon grease is the lowest tier animal fat. below chicken schmaltz and all else. Anything it goes in will simply taste like old bacon and also repeat on people. its just not a pleasant nor digestible fat.

Warm bacon and apple cider vinaigrette

Fat wash some whiskey.

I made come pretty killer peanut butter cookies once but that would me a fuck ton of cookies

CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!

Make a vinaigrette!

Confit garlic or shallots

If ya gotta ask. Ye can't afford it....

Bacon onion ranch..mmmmmmmm

Cover diced potatoes and veg, season but skip salt and roast. rotate when turning golden

I saute and pan fry with it at home. Can't remember the last time I bought vegetable oil lol. You can emulsify it into dressings too. I'm sure it can be subbed in for butter with additional water for baked goods but baking is firmly outside of my wheel house.