Bacon Grease

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I was wondering if any one knew of ways to use bacon grease over?

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An older lady I knew substituted it for shortening in her oatmeal cookies. Sounds gross, but tastes delicious.

 

Toni Ann

 

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tigerstripes14009

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:47 AM

[RealSimple] Bacon Grease

 

 

I was wondering if any one knew of ways to use bacon grease over?

 

 

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WOW never thought of that. Thats a great idea. Thanks. On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Toni Ann <tsallade wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

An older lady I knew substituted it for shortening in her oatmeal cookies. Sounds gross, but tastes delicious.

 

Toni Ann

 

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tigerstripes14009

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:47 AM

[RealSimple] Bacon Grease

 

 

I was wondering if any one knew of ways to use bacon grease over?

 

 

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Sounds like Pennsylvania. My MIL used to cook dandelion greens in it, if anyone remembers my pregnancy/dandelion story, lol. Well, pork fat RULES, as Emeril would say, but I'm concerned about the carcinogens in cured meats.

 

Cyndi

 

 

In a message dated 4/3/2008 9:06:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, joeflaherty writes:

 

 

How healthy is bacon grease? Should we be using it at all? I thought one of the rules was if it's solid when it's cold, it'll be solid in your arteries.

Living in Kentucky, almost every dish calls for bacon grease. I find my father-in-law putting a spoonful in green beans or corn, or cornbread. My granddad (age 94), uses a full half cup of bacon grease in the roux for gumbo.

My sister, a microbiologist, would faint dead away if she saw me put a spoonful of bacon grease in anything.

joe

 

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I learned from my mom to use bacon grease to make suet. Mix it with wild bird seed, harden in the fridge, and put it out for the birds. Kari

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We do, when we eat bacon, which isn't too often any more.

 

Cyndi

 

In a message dated 4/3/2008 10:00:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, barbara3 writes:

 

Yes, that's why you should be getting your bacon at the health food store.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

Sounds like Pennsylvania. My MIL used to cook dandelion greens in it, if anyone remembers my pregnancy/dandelion story, lol. Well, pork fat RULES, as Emeril would say, but I'm concerned about the carcinogens in cured meats.

 

Cyndi

 

 

 

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No particular reason, noone really wants it.

 

Cyndi

 

 

In a message dated 4/3/2008 10:43:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, barbara3 writes:

 

Any particular reason you don't eat bacon much?

I love bacon!

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

We do, when we eat bacon, which isn't too often any more.

 

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We're more of a ham family, lol.

 

Cyndi

 

In a message dated 4/3/2008 10:58:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, barbara3 writes:

 

OK....good enough reason... LOL

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

No particular reason, noone really wants it.

 

Cyndi

 

 

 

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How healthy is bacon grease? Should we be using it at all? I thought one of the rules was if it's solid when it's cold, it'll be solid in your arteries.

 

 

Living in Kentucky, almost every dish calls for bacon grease. I find my father-in-law putting a spoonful in green beans or corn, or cornbread. My granddad (age 94), uses a full half cup of bacon grease in the roux for gumbo.

 

My sister, a microbiologist, would faint dead away if she saw me put a spoonful of bacon grease in anything.

 

joe

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Contrary to what our government is telling us, the only healthy fat is animal fat which means a saturated fat. Go ahead and use your bacon fat as long as it is from the bacon that is not cured with sodium nitrate. To learn about healthy fats read a book by Mary Enig PhD. "Eat Fat, Lose Fat". She studied fats for more than 30 years and she knows her fats.

Avoid any fat that is liquid in room temperature.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

How healthy is bacon grease? Should we be using it at all? I thought one of the rules was if it's solid when it's cold, it'll be solid in your arteries.

Living in Kentucky, almost every dish calls for bacon grease. I find my father-in-law putting a spoonful in green beans or corn, or cornbread. My granddad (age 94), uses a full half cup of bacon grease in the roux for gumbo.

My sister, a microbiologist, would faint dead away if she saw me put a spoonful of bacon grease in anything.

joe

 

[Guest guest]

Yes, that's why you should be getting your bacon at the health food store.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

Sounds like Pennsylvania. My MIL used to cook dandelion greens in it, if anyone remembers my pregnancy/dandelion story, lol. Well, pork fat RULES, as Emeril would say, but I'm concerned about the carcinogens in cured meats.

 

Cyndi

 

 

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Any particular reason you don't eat bacon much?

I love bacon!

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

We do, when we eat bacon, which isn't too often any more.

 

Cyndi

 

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OK....good enough reason... LOL

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

No particular reason, noone really wants it.

 

Cyndi

 

 

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Ham is great, too....I'm not fussy, I like both LOL

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

We're more of a ham family, lol.

 

Cyndi

 

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Well I most certainly am not eating tubs of it. I had a big family breakfast where I cooked 5 lbs of bacon. I was just wondering what things ppl do with it. I remember my grandmother always had a grease jar by the stove. But I have forgotten what she used the grease for. I was just curious to see if most people threw it out.. or if any one reused it.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Joe Flaherty <joeflaherty wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How healthy is bacon grease? Should we be using it at all? I thought one of the rules was if it's solid when it's cold, it'll be solid in your arteries.

 

 

Living in Kentucky, almost every dish calls for bacon grease. I find my father-in-law putting a spoonful in green beans or corn, or cornbread. My granddad (age 94), uses a full half cup of bacon grease in the roux for gumbo.

 

My sister, a microbiologist, would faint dead away if she saw me put a spoonful of bacon grease in anything.

 

joe

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Michelle Stang

RealSimple

Friday, April 04, 2008 8:14 AM

Re: [RealSimple] Re:Bacon Grease

 

 

Well I most certainly am not eating tubs of it. I had a big family breakfast

where I cooked 5 lbs of bacon. I was just wondering what things ppl do with

it. I remember my grandmother always had a grease jar by the stove. But I

have forgotten what she used the grease for. I was just curious to see if

most people threw it out.. or if any one reused it.

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Everybody in the south use to reuse bacon grease. My mom had a grease can

too, but kept it in the fridge so the grease didn't go rancid. She would

add it to all kinds of cooked veggies, in the same way southerners add meat

or fatback to veggies. It's a flavor thing....lol

She would use it immediately after cooking the bacon to fry the eggs for

breakfast. If she saved it, she' add it to 'Crisco' or to Veggie Oil which

she used to fry foods in. She'd add bacon grease to cornbread recipes(in

place of the veggie oil it called for). She'd put some in the dog's food

now and again. I'm sure there are other times she used it but I can't

remember her ever putting any in something sweet, just savory foods.

Sluggy

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I'm with you, Barbara! Although I'm kosher now, I would eat bacon grease before I eat an Oreo cookie! If anyone should decide to dispose of bacon grease rather than reuse it, the proper way would be to pour it into a jar with a lid, let it harden, and throw it away. It will clog drain pipes (but not artieries!). KariBarbara <barbara3 wrote: Contrary to what our government is telling us, the only healthy fat is animal fat which means a saturated

fat. Go ahead and use your bacon fat as long as it is from the bacon that is not cured with sodium nitrate. To learn about healthy fats read a book by Mary Enig PhD. "Eat Fat, Lose Fat". She studied fats for more than 30 years and she knows her fats. Avoid any fat that is liquid in room temperature. Barbara How healthy is bacon grease? Should we be using it at all? I thought one of the rules was if it's solid when it's cold, it'll be solid in your arteries. Living in Kentucky,

almost every dish calls for bacon grease. I find my father-in-law putting a spoonful in green beans or corn, or cornbread. My granddad (age 94), uses a full half cup of bacon grease in the roux for gumbo. My sister, a microbiologist, would faint dead away if she saw me put a spoonful of bacon grease in anything. joe

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Thank you guys! Ok so... I am saving it in a jar and I think I am going to try the oatmeal cookies with it! I am interested in seeing how they taste. Also from now on I am going to keep my bacon grease to reuse. One question... is there a time limit on the grease? We don't really eat a lot of bacon... is there a certain time frame for using left over grease? Thanks. Michelle.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Kari Carlisle <kari wrote:

 

 

 

 

I'm with you, Barbara! Although I'm kosher now, I would eat bacon grease before I eat an Oreo cookie! If anyone should decide to dispose of bacon grease rather than reuse it, the proper way would be to pour it into a jar with a lid, let it harden, and throw it away. It will clog drain pipes (but not artieries!).

KariBarbara <barbara3 wrote:

Contrary to what our government is telling us, the only healthy fat is animal fat which means a saturated

fat. Go ahead and use your bacon fat as long as it is from the bacon that is not cured with sodium nitrate. To learn about healthy fats read a book by Mary Enig PhD. " Eat Fat, Lose Fat " . She studied fats for more than 30 years and she knows her fats.

Avoid any fat that is liquid in room temperature. Barbara

How healthy is bacon grease? Should we be using it at all? I thought one of the rules was if it's solid when it's cold, it'll be solid in your arteries. Living in Kentucky,

almost every dish calls for bacon grease. I find my father-in-law putting a spoonful in green beans or corn, or cornbread. My granddad (age 94), uses a full half cup of bacon grease in the roux for gumbo. My sister, a microbiologist, would faint dead away if she saw me put a spoonful of bacon grease in anything.

joe

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LOL....how right you are Kari on clogging the pipes! But never the arteries...

Seriously though, the saturated animal fat and butter is THE best, protects your heart from the disease. American people are sicker than ever BECAUSE we are told not to eat animal fats! And that's is a shame! Animal fats are needed to process and store all the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) People are getting cancers more than ever because some 80% or 90% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D which protects us from cancer. This is thanks to sunscreen industry working on us for several decades now.

Again it is a shame, but when you stop and think about it, EVERYTHING the government and medical establishment is telling us is a LIE!

We are on out own to learn what is good for us and sadly, most people do not bother to research. That's why there is so much sickness in US, to the delight and big profits of big pharma.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

I'm with you, Barbara! Although I'm kosher now, I would eat bacon grease before I eat an Oreo cookie! If anyone should decide to dispose of bacon grease rather than reuse it, the proper way would be to pour it into a jar with a lid, let it harden, and throw it away. It will clog drain pipes (but not artieries!).

 

Kari

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Good decision, Michelle....just make sure the bacon is not treated with nitrates.

If you know that you will not be using it that much, you can just keep it in freezer.

 

Barbara

 

 

Thank you guys! Ok so... I am saving it in a jar and I think I am going to try the oatmeal cookies with it! I am interested in seeing how they taste. Also from now on I am going to keep my bacon grease to reuse. One question... is there a time limit on the grease? We don't really eat a lot of bacon... is there a certain time frame for using left over grease? Thanks. Michelle.

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So this is also true of the fat from

ground beef too?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, April 04, 2008 12:18

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Re: [RealSimple] Re:Bacon

Grease

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL....how right you are Kari on

clogging the pipes! But never the arteries...

 

 

Seriously though, the saturated animal fat

and butter is THE best, protects your heart from the disease. American

people are sicker than ever BECAUSE we are told not to eat animal fats!

And that's is a shame! Animal fats are needed to process and store all

the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) People are getting cancers more

than ever because some 80% or 90% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D which

protects us from cancer. This is thanks to sunscreen industry working on

us for several decades now.

 

 

Again it is a shame, but when you stop and

think about it, EVERYTHING the government and medical establishment is telling

us is a LIE!

 

 

We are on out own to learn what is good for

us and sadly, most people do not bother to research. That's why there is

so much sickness in US, to the delight and big profits of big pharma.

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm with you, Barbara! Although I'm kosher now, I would eat bacon

grease before I eat an Oreo cookie! If anyone should decide to dispose of bacon

grease rather than reuse it, the proper way would be to pour it into a jar with

a lid, let it harden, and throw it away. It will clog drain pipes (but not

artieries!).

 

 

 

 

 

Kari

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Yes. All animal origin fats. Poultry also and fish oils.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

 

So this is also true of the fat from ground beef too?

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I eat pork, bacon, ham, sausage. So I'm not saying whether to do one thing or

another, but

this is what I've read about pork...

 

Pigs are scavenger animals and frequently contain parasites and viruses that are

not killed

with cooking. Most other animals we eat are ruminants. That is they have four

stomachs.

This ensures a much more thorough processing of food than is possible with one

stomach,

and less pollutants are stored in the flesh. The pig has one stomach and stores

poisons in

its body fat. A snake cannot kill a pig. The poison that is just stored in the

fat under the

skin. It then will be ingested by anything that subsequently eats that pig.

 

Pig's bodies contain many toxins, worms and latent diseases. Although some of

these

infestations are harbored in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs

are far more

predisposed to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because pigs

like to

scavenge and will eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, rotting

carcasses,

excreta (including their own), garbage, and other pigs.

 

With today's hygienic methods of raising these animals it is unlikely they would

carry the

same risk as one raised in the wild, but consider this: the meat takes 4 days to

digest in

the bowel instead of 2 for other meats.

 

Influenza (flu) is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with

humans. This

illness is harbored in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to

affect pigs

and humans in the cooler months. Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those

who eat

pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of influenza. Pig meat

contains

excessive quantities of histamine and imidazole compounds, which can lead to

itching and

inflammation; growth hormone, which promotes inflammation and growth; sulfur-

containing mesenchymal mucus, which leads to swelling and deposits of mucus in

tendons

and cartilage, resulting in arthritis, rheumatism, etc. Sulfur helps cause firm

human

tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and

degeneration of human cartilage. Eating pork can also lead to gallstones and

obesity,

probably due to its high cholesterol and saturated fat content. The pig is the

main carrier

of the taenia solium worm, which is found it its flesh. These tapeworms are

found in

human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This

type of

tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is

incurable

once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada

has

trichinosis from eating trichina worms, which are found in pork. Many people

have no

symptoms to warn them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many

other illnesses. These worms are not noticed during meat inspections, nor does

salting or

smoking kill them. Few people cook the meat long enough to kill the trichinae.

The rat

(another scavenger) also harbors this disease. There are dozens of other worms,

germs,

diseases and bacteria which are commonly found in pigs, many of which are

specific to the

pig, or found in greater frequency in pigs.

 

Pigs are biologically similar to humans, and their meat is said to taste similar

to human

flesh. Pigs have been used for dissection in biology labs due to the similarity

between their

organs and human organs. People with insulin-dependent diabetes usually inject

themselves with pig insulin. If you pour Coke (yes, the soda) on a slab of pork,

and wait a

little while, you will see worms crawl out of it. Gross!!

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Why do my emails do that?!?!?

Sorry about that, I didn't put any returns in that previous email, so I don't

know why its

spacing like that?!?

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What a bunch of BS! I can't believe that someone could put together so many lies because if only half of those "facts" were true, nations that do eat pork would be extinct long time ago.

I wonder what happened to the logic????

 

Barbara

 

 

I eat pork, bacon, ham, sausage. So I'm not saying whether to do one thing or another, but this is what I've read about pork...