Bacon Grease!

I love it. I love to cook with it.  When I mention that I cook with bacon grease, I get reactions between brow raises and “eeeewww”s, but hear me out.

Everything tastes better with bacon.

Seriously.  I’m not saying replace your butter with bacon, but sometimes?  Replace your butter with bacon.  Or at least half of it.  Consider, if you will, pan fries or hash browns.  What do you cook ‘em in?  Butter?  Oil?  Try bacon grease.  Now your pan fries/hash browns are 100% more awesome.

  • Cooking onions?  Bacon grease.
  • Making apple sauce to pour over your pork chops or your (non-kosher) potato pancakes?  Bacon grease.
  • Mashed potatoes?
  • Noodle dish that needs a little more oomph?
  • Roasted veggies? Green beans?
  • Corn Muffins?
  • Bread crumb topping?
  • Beschamel/White sauce?

Sing it if you know the words.

Here’s some stats according to LoseIt.com, my calorie/exercise counter website. Each of these is one tablespoon measurements.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil: 120cal

Fat: 14g
S.Fat: 2g

Bacon grease: 116cal

Fat: 12.8g
S.Fat: 5g
Cholest: 12.3mg
Sodium: 19.4mg

Unsalted butter: 102cal

Fat: 11.5g
S.Fat: 7.3g
Cholest: 30.5mg
Sodium: 1.6mg
Protein: 0.1g

Soft Margarine: 102cal

Fat: 11.2g
S.Fat: 1.6g
Sodium: 100mg
Carb: 0.2g
Protein: 0.1g

Granted, this website doesn’t track Mono- Poly- and Un-saturated fats, but you get the idea.  I’m not telling anybody to take the butter and oil out of your diets and replace it with bacon fat.  I’m just saying to be a little more open-minded to the deliciousness that can happen in your mouth.  Besides, you bought that bacon.  It comes with free fat.  Why are you throwing it away?  Don’t be wasteful; be more delicious.

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