Bacon Grease

[sharp edge]

We tell people to smear bacon grease on their tents to keep the bears away. :D

Just boil it down with water, let it cool, the good stuff will go to the top. Make soap out of it.

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[Kbeitz]

You might be surprised how long it will last...
My brother bought a factory to use as a textile factory.
It was a bakery. When the old man that ran it died over 20 years ago
his wife just shut it down. Food still in the ovens and on the conveyor's.
Never to be touched again until my brother bought the place.
In the factory was a 10,000 gallon tank of lard. There was a boiler
piped into the tank to keep it liquid when it was needed to be used.
My brother sold that tank of lard to another bakery that said that it never
goes bad. They fired up the boiler and melted it back into liquid to be
pumped in to a truck tanker unit to be used again.

[Brad_bb]

I have other stuff in the freezer and little room left.

That log looks like a workable idea, the only question is I then have to find newspaper.  Do they still sell newspaper anymore? I was a paper boy as a kid.  But the local paper is so thin these days...I'll have to find someone saving the Sunday Chicago Tribune, the only paper left that is big enough to yield any amount of paper.

[tractorman44]

Bacon grease could possibly be used to make soap, but because the bacon is cooked at a much higher temperture than the fat scraps are cooked to make lard, the by-product may be scorched.  Lard is best for used for cooking or soapmaking if it is rendered at no more than 250 degrees in the kettle...or so my dad always said. 

The bacon-grease soap may have an odd odor that may best be used on really greasy grimy hands as a pre wash before you jump in the shower if it has the telltale 'odd' smell. There is hardly a better product for shop greased hands than old home made lye soap. 

We started making it again last butchering season.

[drobertson]

Mine bacon grease goes in a empty 1lb coffee container, then makes it way to the fire pit, I've wondered the same as to using saw dust too, it's just easier to put in some twigs and grease and torch it off, and start the collection over again.

[trapper]

Mine goes on top of the dry cat food.

[Polly]

  wife just went to the local slaughter house and bought a 100 pounds of fat meat she ended up with 25 quarts of lard she uses it for cooking it is the only thing to use to make good pie crust if you research it on int. it is really good for you . of course it is not pollitacilly correct if everyone went back to using what was good for them some of big food mfg would go out of business . personally i am 77 and still kicking raised on lard  :D  :D 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Mix it with sawdust and/or planer shavings and use it as a fire starter.  Many easy fires all winter this way.

Or use it to make suet if you like bird watching from the living room.