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Post by cpdad on Jan 28, 2013 19:56:31 GMT -5
i had to cook up about 4 pounds of bacon for a big ol batch of baked beans yesterday....and while i was doing it...i mentioned to lisa...that it was a shame to chunk all this bacon grease...its good stuff...she immediately slapped me on the back of the head. . i remember when mom had a glass covered dish on the counter that was just for bacon grease....it flavored pole beans...cabbage....etc....and reused grease that taters were fried in....to cook more taters i love that stuff...and real butter on my home made biscuits....i know it ain't the norm anymore. remember that stuff....it sure was good ;D....kev.
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Jan 28, 2013 19:58:42 GMT -5
it made the best gravy and biscuits
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Post by helens on Jan 28, 2013 20:03:01 GMT -5
What's the 'norm'? If your mom did it that way, why can't you do it too? Put a covered dish on your oven and save the bacon grease for flavoring:).
Other use for bacon grease is to make soap... but you'd have to filter and refine it before you can use it. There's no reason you can't keep it to flavor veggies tho, and you should:).
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 28, 2013 20:07:22 GMT -5
Got 4 pint containers of bacon grease sitting in the cool basement right now, and another in the fridge to fry eggs and hash browns in.
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Post by snuffy on Jan 28, 2013 20:08:19 GMT -5
Heck,I still fry bacon and pour the grease in my beans,cabbage,greens,etc.Not 4 lbs at a time tho! By the way,thats the only time I fry bacon,so no grease left over to save. Use real butter too,that fake crap cant be good for ya! snuffy
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 28, 2013 20:21:43 GMT -5
If you've ever cut threads into metal with a tap, you know that it works as a great natural lubricant! I don't cook bacon much anymore, but when I do, the dogs get it poured onto their dry food for a treat. Not only is it good for their coats, but it also gets the old dog (14 years, 8 mos) with stage 3 renal failure to eat her food when she gets finicky. Jean
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Post by helens on Jan 28, 2013 20:23:27 GMT -5
Speaking of real butter... real butter is no more artery clogging than 'fake' butter, which are hydrogenated saturated fat oils... that are BAD FOR YOU too, regardless of what they say. From the Mayo Clinic: www.mayoclinic.com/health/butter-vs-margarine/AN00835From Snopes: www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.aspAnyway, if you have high cholesterol, your doctor probably has you on cholesterol medication anyway... so you can still sneak some butter:P. If BOTH are bad for you, eat the stuff you LIKE.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 28, 2013 20:32:39 GMT -5
*L* My mom was an old Texas farm gal and we always had the bacon grease jar. Sometimes that ingredient was the only thing that made the crappy wild game from my dads taxidermy shop edible....Mel
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Post by cpdad on Jan 28, 2013 21:17:48 GMT -5
o.k. this bacon soap has me messed up helen ;D....you mean it's really out there ;D.....i almost refuse to take a bath...my back must hurt really bad for me to get in a bathtub. i refuse to wash my face in the same water i wash my ass in...but you are saying there is bacon soap?. if i washed in bacon soap....my dog would try and bite my stuff...im sure...he is a hungry basterd ;D...he likes bacon ;D. gotta rethink soap here ...kev.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 28, 2013 21:33:02 GMT -5
Its also great for healing wounds on horses,like wire cuts and etc...Mix it with Preperation H and seal the wound,healed great and fast.. I don't care what health nuts say,I like using the used bacon grease for eggs and spuds too!
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Post by snuffy on Jan 28, 2013 21:33:05 GMT -5
I remember my mother making lye soap 60 years ago.Wasnt it made with hog lard? Kev,bet you scrub good with lye soap your dog wont bother you! ;D I guess if my parents,grandparents,aunts and uncles wouldnt have eaten all this butter and bacon fat,and eggs,they would have lived longer than their 80's and 90's. snuffy
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Post by itsandbits on Jan 28, 2013 21:42:56 GMT -5
greasy fried taters is the best way to start the day; YUMMY!!! not to mention, as a lubricant; as mentioned, it makes the job a lot more interesting as you smell the heated bacan fat wafting up to your nostrils; I us eit for lubricant in drilling and cutting aluminum with a saw; makes the cutting edges last much longer
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Post by kk on Jan 28, 2013 22:02:52 GMT -5
Sunday morning breakfast: First you fry the bacon to get the fat you need for the rest of the meal (and have the smell get lazy behinds out of bed ), then in the same pan you do the sausages followed by some eggs or omelets.
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Post by mohs on Jan 28, 2013 22:33:40 GMT -5
I remember frying bacon without a shirt on that was a mistake
mostly
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Post by johnjsgems on Jan 29, 2013 9:17:42 GMT -5
What is bacon? Is it something that tastes like turkey bacon? Only with flavor? You people without heart disease are killing me. I have to go eat my whole wheat bagel with low fat cream cheese (paper thin layer) and sugar free jam now.
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Post by snowdog on Jan 29, 2013 9:24:27 GMT -5
makes the best pic crust too!! ;D when my grandmother use to butcher a hog, she would grind,stuff (real hog casing), and fry up all the sausage, then can it in glass jars and fill them with the grease & seal them --all you had to do then was warm it up ( and had plenty of grease to fry the taters in ! ;D ---always had a 10 gallon crock of lard in the basement, just in case also remember helping with the lye soap-- would burn (acid) your hands if you messed with it too much when you were making it back then , food was ripe before you picked it and had the natural sugars -- not this store bought stuff of today that tastes like cardboard !! still make my own applebutter sometimes but have learned to cook it in the oven overnight instead of having to stir it all day long
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 29, 2013 12:17:08 GMT -5
We still can and butcher our own veggies and meat....I smoke and cure all our fish too....... Wife makes homemade jelly and jams and I do the homemade BBQ sauces and salsas.... If I can't butcher my meat we have a local butcher here that will do my meat for me..He shows me the cuts I want than either packs it or grinds it for me... We are not much on the "Supermarket" buying thing...
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Post by garock on Jan 29, 2013 13:31:05 GMT -5
Mr Sgt. Edmo Rock'n Hearts, you are right it hurts to fry bacon or bologna in a pan without a shirt on. I only done this one time with the bologna. I was young and dumb but I did "learnt"
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Post by helens on Jan 29, 2013 15:12:12 GMT -5
o.k. this bacon soap has me messed up helen ;D....you mean it's really out there ;D.....i almost refuse to take a bath...my back must hurt really bad for me to get in a bathtub. i refuse to wash my face in the same water i wash my ass in...but you are saying there is bacon soap?. if i washed in bacon soap....my dog would try and bite my stuff...im sure...he is a hungry basterd ;D...he likes bacon ;D. gotta rethink soap here ...kev. Yes, 'real' soap is made with lard:). No, the soap you buy at the store is not... today, soap is extruded from very skin damaging chemicals. Yes, I made soap with lard for years (but! I didn't render it myself, I BOUGHT lard, you can buy tubs of lard at Walmart). In a lot of rural places, people still make hunting/fishing soap. They swear it takes the scent of humans off better than other stinks. Reacting lard with lye is a chemical process... this means that so long as there's not actual bacon bits (you filtered it first through cheesecloth), it should not smell like bacon:) . It WILL smell darn good, but will taste absolutely horrible. LOL! For years, I owned a soapmaking forum.... today I keep it as an archive and data dump, but it's open to anyone to review. Too nostalgic to just shut it down, so I'll pay for it forever. I have to personally approve any new members, to keep out spammers, and none of us are active anymore, but you don't need it, you can access most notes directly: www.soapersasylum.com You can find pretty much anything, any recipe, for making any type of soap, cosmetics, bath and body products that is possible to make somewhere in those 10 years of posts (lots of reading tho). That said... here is one of the old posts that would interest you: Hello all.....
I really need some help from some of you who are experienced at this soapmaking stuff.
I am an avid fisherman and we have been using lye soap for catfishing for many years. My grandfather made the soap and he has passed away and passed the recipe down to me.
I have been trying to make this soap but am having some varied results and am not sure what I am doing wrong.
The recipe is as follows:
10 Lbs Lard 2 Cans Red Devil Lye (24 oz total) 5 Quarts Water 1 Quart Buttermilk
I am using the Lard Lye and Water and stirring for about 30 minutes, then adding the buttermilk for trace.
I am getting soap everytime, but only one batch has turned out like it was supposed to, which is soft enough to push a fish hook through, but still hold together. The other batches are very "flaky" and the soap falls apart when you try and push the hook through or cut it.
I have been letting the soap sit in the lined box for two days as the recipe says and then cutting it up. I test the soap with the hooks after two days and only one batch has turned out corectly. The rest is soft and flaky and just falls apart when cutting or when you push the hook through.
Could this be something with how I am storing it while "curing" for two days or am I not letting it sit long enough or what.
Any ideas?
If you are serious about wanting to try the bacon grease to make soap, I can formulate an adaptation for you... you have to be able to PRECISELY measure the ingredients first. AND have safety equipment to protect eyes and skin before you attempt it. Here's my old directions still online for how to do it: www.zensoaps.com/hpsoap.htmI think mine are the last online directions... everyone else has whored out by writing books... giving publishers the rights to their words, so their words aren't free anymore. I never have. I still get thank yous from all over the world every month:). Let me know if you need more info:). ***editing to add, we solved his problem by having him get a more accurate scale, and using distilled bottled water instead of tap for his soap. His grandfathered was making this pre-WWII, and Red Devil has changed their formulation a bit also. PLUS, lye itself has a shelf life and over time becomes less potent. So if you want to try it, must get fresh lye:).
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Post by cpdad on Jan 29, 2013 19:41:56 GMT -5
helen whats the point of bacon soap....if it doesnt smell like bacon ;D...if i wanted to smell like lavender wouldnt i want lavender soap ;D
but that homemade fish soap is very interesting...have caught many catfish on plain ol ivory bar soap....i will definitely be in touch about this soap.
i did not think you could smell while sleeping...but it sure seemed like everyone got up within a few minutes of each other...when a big ol breakfast full of bacon and sausage was being cooked by mom or grandma. ;D
snuffy...what would i smell like after using lye soap?...hate to say it...but you and snowdog must be kinda old ;D.
john...i gotta eat that turkey stuff 85 percent of the time...a few years before i met my wife she had gastric bypass surgery...she cant have bacon grease/tater grease and stuff...makes her sick....or heck even grits that arent over cooked...everything has to be over cooked pasta and such to make sure it doesnt swell in her belly.
Mr. Frank....yaw got me wanting a bologna sammich....i do not like raw bologna sammiches...it must be grilled or fried...same with a hotdog...grilled or fried only.
if i am some where that only has boiled hotdogs...i will buy one...but i have them load it up...onions/relish/jalapenos/mustard/chili/cheese/coleslaw...etc....after i get my boiled dog...i find the closest trash can...slide the dog out...throw it away... and eat the rest ;D
fossilman...geez i miss homemade jelly and jams...and homemade apple butter as dave mentioned...those things made the bacon grease filled breakfasts from mom or grandmas just over the top...kev.
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