What do I do with my bacon grease?

[playa hanjin]

Total newb question even though this is my sophomore year.

I will be actually cooking this year (had an RV last year). Cooking bacon for breakfast a few days (of course).

Bacon grease is lovely and delicious but doesn't evaporate. What do folks do with it? Cook eggs in it? Mop it up with an English muffin?

[swampdog]

seal it in a can to pack out or burn it in a fire.

[Shpilkus]

Why don't you bring a package of precooked bacon. The grease has already been rendered from it, and you are just left with the delicious bacon goodness. If you feel you must go through the torment of cooking bacon on the playa, bring a mayonnaise jar to pour the grease in and then take it home with you as a souvenir of your week at Burning Man!

[Bob]

Makes for great lube on your bike chains and tent zippers, if you can fend off the coyotes.

[FIGJAM]

Bring some bisquit dough, roll it thin, and fry it in the drippings.

Fry bread!

[swampdog]

Bob, you scared me there, I thought you were going to recommend using bacon grease for a different type of lube. Hey, now that I think about it.....

[theCryptofishist]

Bob, you scared me there, I thought you were going to recommend using bacon grease for a different type of lube. Hey, now that I think about it.....

AT one point, Crisco was the lube of preference in certain circles, as I understand it. Everything old is new again...

[Roberto Dobbisano]

[HandJamMasterC]

swampdog wrote:
Bob, you scared me there, I thought you were going to recommend using bacon grease for a different type of lube. Hey, now that I think about it.....

AT one point, Crisco was the lube of preference in certain circles, as I understand it. Everything old is new again...

NO - DON'T USE CRISCO FOR SEX LUBE !! Why? It's shortning...............

[Bob]

Soap?

[squish]

I fry eggs or potatoes (or both) in the grease. Going to try the biscuits this year
Then I wipe the pan with a paper towel or two and put those into a big paper bag with all the rest of my paper waste to burn.
I have some nifty little disposable dishwashing towels (already soaped). Scrub the pan with one and rinse. Done.

[Packoderm]

I put the grease in a can, put aluminum foil held tight over the top with a rubber band, and use it for cooking on the playa. Before I start a big batch of bacon, I'll take a few spoon fulls of the grease from the last batch and heat it in the pan for a head start on the frying process. Doing the same thing with less grease before cooking corned beef hash will make it crispy and yummy. I'll pour some of the grease on wood that's to be burned the next day. It starts so much easier that way. When you're all done for the week, put your can in a bigger jar and put the lid on it to take home.

[jkisha]

If you use a glass or plastic jar make sure you let the fat cool first. I bring a coffee can.

Why don't you bring a package of precooked bacon. The grease has already been rendered from it, and you are just left with the delicious bacon goodness. If you feel you must go through the torment of cooking bacon on the playa, bring a mayonnaise jar to pour the grease in and then take it home with you as a souvenir of your week at Burning Man!

[shykat]

Cover pan with foil.
Cook bacon.
Let grease cool.
Scrunch up foil into a small ball.
Haul out with trash.


Clean pan and little amount of trash.

[BBadger]

Use it to fry up eggs and tasty goodies the rest of the week.

[pizzamancer]

Just cook your bacon on a burn barrel. Bacon grease makes burn barrels burn really well.

[ygmir]

I wait, and I wait, but, no one goes there..........

[playa hanjin]

This was the most useful and fun collection of answers I could have possibly received. Thank you all. I hope I get to serve some of you bacon.
Oink.

[Tafkah]

Bacon grease is the BEST thing you can put on your dry, cracked feet. Seriously.

[theCryptofishist]

The government is collecting it for armaments.

[ygmir]

The government is collecting it for armaments.

VDR's? of course Fishy, you're brilliant. virgin denial round

[DustHand]

Last year, cooked the eggs in most of it, the leftover went in a beer can with the top cut off. After it cools, it's (mostly) a solid and it goes in the garbage we packed out.

[Trishntek]

A little dab behind the ears is a guarantee to gain a following.

[knowmad]

A little dab behind the ears is a guarantee to gain a following.

+1

[Kontradiction]

Sexual lubrication? O.o

[Kontradiction]

A little dab behind the ears is a guarantee to gain a following.

+1

+2

[Kontradiction]

swampdog wrote:
Bob, you scared me there, I thought you were going to recommend using bacon grease for a different type of lube. Hey, now that I think about it.....

AT one point, Crisco was the lube of preference in certain circles, as I understand it. Everything old is new again...

NO - DON'T USE CRISCO FOR SEX LUBE !! Why? It's shortning...............

+1

[EspressoDude]

old song by Paul Revere and the Raiders:

http://www.myspace.com/paulrevereraiders/music/songs/crisco-party-walking-the-dog-28335383

[lemur]

put a buncha playa dust, mix it in with the grease so its like the consistancy of pizza dough... put in to trash bag with normal trash..

now it wont leak all over!

[NessaZee]

bring some cocoa butter, some empty lip balm tubes, melt the two together and make bacon balm. YUM

cocoa butter keeps it hard.

heh