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How long can bacon grease be kept in the fridge ?

Lynn

Forever

Smell it if in doubt, you will know

Long time.

Like a sourdough starter.....just keep adding to it.

Fry a skillet burger in saved bacon fat, yum.

I am using some that is two years old. its still good.

and then another week, or two

My bacon grease jar hasn't been emptied in over 15 years. Just keep adding to it.

Fry EVERYTHING in bacon fat...

Dang, is it supposed to be stored in a fridge? I got my dear departed Mom's bacon grease bowl, pretty faded white bowl with flowers and a lid. Ever since I was a kid it set on the counter waiting to go into a cast iron skillet. We never stored it in the fridge, maybe it never lasted long enough to go bad. Some times we just fry bacon up to get the grease, makes a great snack, dog likes it when we do.

I think my Dad ate bacon every day. Darn bacon finally got the best of my Dad when he was 84. But, it could of been loosing Mom that killed him....

OMG ! I have never, ever, had a bacon fat fried burger and my Grandma saved bacon fat forever. Supper is gonna be a cheat, but a good cheat !

Lynn

Thanks guys, I know my Grandmother always had a pot of bacon grease and she just keep adding to it, but isn't today's bacon is cured with nuclear waste ?

And, you can make soap.

My Grandma used to take bread dough after it had it's second rise, and roll it out a bit till it was like 2 inches thick. She would then cut it into squares or triangles, sort of medium biscuit size, and fry them in about 2 inches of hot bacon fat. She would brown them on one side, and turn them over and brown on the other side. They just puffed right up, soft and tender on the inside, and crispy on the outside. Butter, jam, honey, anything you wanted was spread on or placed in them, and they were amazing

I miss her so very much, and everything she ever cooked.

Lynn

No. Its the same.

Yep, ours sits beside the stove too !

You know the easy recipe where you cut those little potatoes in half, toss them in some oil, dust them with whatever seasoning and bake till the cut faces are nicely browned? Use a little warmed bacon fat instead of the oil. I bet you'll like it.

+1

That's what we do. The grease in the very bottom of ours could be 15 years old...LOL!!

Mike

Do you refrigerate yours??

Big argument with my wife and I. I never have, but her family always has. Mine never went bad sitting in kitchen.

I use the jar my great grandparents used for storing it. Think of them every time I use it. Jar is over 100 years old

i keep it in the fridge

Fridge in masonjars.

Cooked some bacon yesterday and there on the counter was a bag of unpopped popcorn. Hot grease right there so I had to try it. A different taste but not bad. Doesn't need butter!

Proves once again that bacon anything is good.

not tightly sealed

My Mom made my Dad popcorn popped in bacon grease for lunch every Saturday and Sunday my entire childhood. Never knew there was another way until I was a teen. True story.

We use it to make the roux for sausage and shrimp gumbo. Everything tastes better with bacon grease!!!!