My wife and I will be living the life of luxury next week enjoying a tow-in and are thus packing a cooler with some bacon. Since cans are not allowed, what are people doing with bacon grease? I would like to save it to cook fish with, and would rather not dump it into the fire. Thanks!

How about using a small metal bowl to let it cool off in and then place in a some type of tupperware like container.

Good call, I will throw a little tupperware on the pile!

My daddy used to eat bacon grease sandwiches! We didn't let much go to waste when I was a kid. Youngest of seven.

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Render it before the trip. Next day (and beyond) bacon warmed on a skillet never bothered me none.

how about this bacon grease picture?
someone just flipped a blob of bacon grease on a rock next to the fire place.
"the mice will eat it har-har-har"

One of my brothers saves all his bacon grease at home and cooks with it. He also mentioned smearing it on his morning toast. That sounds good!

If we bring bacon we bring the precooked stuff - minimal grease to deal with.

quote deerfoot: "If we bring bacon we bring the precooked stuff - minimal grease to deal with."

even good cold.

I use a stainless coffee cup to cool. Then a plastic bag. Usually carry 2 or 3 gallon size . Put fish batter in them. Water container if you lose one or need more water.

I hope I'm not naughty. I burn it in the fire.

We burn it in the fire pit

We precook bacon prior to trip. Drain well. Vacuum seal. Freeze. No grease, no problems. When ready to use, just warm it in frying pan. The one thing we don't bring is bacon grease.

quote deerfoot: "If we bring bacon we bring the precooked stuff - minimal grease to deal with."

And no cooler needed. Bacon everyday - can't get better than that.

Has anyone noticed the price of bacon lately. Until recently the price in Missouri has been $3.99 lb with $2.99 a great sale price. Last weekend I went to restock the freezer and the cheapest bacon was $7.99 lb.

Sam's Club has the 10 lb box for $4.99 lb.

We may not have bacon everyday on this year's trip.

quote Savage Voyageur: "We burn it in the fire pit"

+1

quote deerfoot: "If we bring bacon we bring the precooked stuff - minimal grease to deal with."

That's what we use now, so it cleans up very easily

According to the liberal news media :)

Bacon consumption is up 6% in the past year.

We pre cook and vac pac our bacon as well to save cook time and fuel. More or less heat and eat or just eat. However, fish oil etc....... = fire starter/enhancer.

I use it all up. Fry bacon, then fry the hasbrowns in bacon grease, then cook eggs in whatever is left. Oh yea, then heat up the bagels on the fry pan when everything else is cooked!

Let it cool in the pan but not solid yet and put it in one of those plastic Tupperware containers that has the snap-over lids that don't easily open?

Have never used bacon grease to fry fish. But I bet it's good. Or you could pack in some lard? Very similar?

quote LuvMyBell: Has anyone noticed the price of bacon lately. Until recently the price in Missouri has been $3.99 lb with $2.99 a great sale price. Last weekend I went to restock the freezer and the cheapest bacon was $7.99 lb.

Sam's Club has the 10 lb box for $4.99 lb"

The "national herd" ie amount of pigs to sell and turn into bacon has taken a solid hit from at least one disease that doesnt affect food safety/humans but causes lots of livestock loss. This has pinched down the supply. I know of one news article related to the main one out of a Des Moines new station.

Plus there is the premium suppliers realized they could get away with (and were missing out on) as bacon has become "cool/trendy" or w/e.

I like to bring the pre-cooked stuff just because it is oh-so-very simple. If I wanted to save grease, I'd let it cool and put it in some sort of plastic jar or bottle... tupperware seems like it would open too easily.

I leave it at home. I don't want to wash any dishes on my vacation. So I attempt to eat simply - so no bacon and eggs except maybe the freeze dried ones for breakfast burritos.

Maybe that's not your bag, but maybe one option for you is to consider ham, Canadian bacon, or something similar that might be less work to cook and clean up. For fish, I'll either poach them in water, or fry them in a tiny bit of olive oil - and then just wipe out the pan the paper towel. Store paper towel and re-use in Ziploc. No big fish fry mess.

Side note - I'm not about to give up meat. But I'm starting to buy into the idea that all the hormones that they put into the livestock we buy to make them big and fat is making us big and fat. Kind of another reason to maybe avoid it. I also feel a bit guilty enjoying a pristine lake that I could maybe drink out of..., meanwhile down at the feedlot lagoon....

I second the advice for cooling the bacon grease in the pan of some other metal container and transferring into the "snap" on lid type plastic containers. I think they might be Snapware as the brand name. They don't leak as much as regular containers and the lids stay on well.

After it cools, I smear it on any exposed skin for bug protection. It works pretty good, but for some reason one or two bears will come sniffing around my tent at night. ;-)

Fill a large bowl with lambsquarters greens. Fry 4 strips of bacon in a fry-pan. Remove the bacon and pour the grease over the greens. Crumble the bacon strips over the greens. Season to taste. Toss the greens. Eat.
I don't know how well other kinds of greens would subsitute for lambsquarters and I have doubts about that plant occurring in the midwest. Spinach might work.
This was the tastiest way to eat greens that I've ever tried. I discontinued the practice over concern for my arteries.

quote Jeriatric: "Toss the greens. Eat."

Hahaha...when I first read this Jerry, I thought you meant throw the greens away and eat the bacon and grease only. :-)

quote Jeriatric: "Fill a large bowl with lambsquarters greens. Fry 4 strips of bacon in a fry-pan. Remove the bacon and pour the grease over the greens. Crumble the bacon strips over the greens. Season to taste. Toss the greens. Eat.
I don't know how well other kinds of greens would subsitute for lambsquarters and I have doubts about that plant occurring in the midwest. Spinach might work.
This was the tastiest way to eat greens that I've ever tried. I discontinued the practice over concern for my arteries."

We have plenty of lambs quarters here in S MN. I may have to try it when my wife is not home. She'll think I had been drinking.

Drink it.

JB

X2 - I prefer to take as little grease as possible, as it makes the clean up much easier.

If it was just me, I would take NO butter, just a few ozs of oil, and precooked meat.

The exception of course is the 1st night steak.

For bacon, try the precooked stuff, warmed on a skillet/griddle it's not bad and basically no grease.

Dan

"I leave it at home. I don't want to wash any dishes on my vacation."

We precook the bacon at home and save the grease to fry fish on the trip.
CB

We precook the bacon at home and save the grease to fry fish on the trip.
CB

quote deerfoot: "If we bring bacon we bring the precooked stuff - minimal grease to deal with."

1+ good and much less grease. Keeps a long time.

My uncle used to enjoy bread with bacon grease wiped straight from the pan.
He died of a heart attack while in surgery for something else.

If I weren't using precooked bacon, I'd wipe up the grease after it cools and put it in a ziplock with the rest of my to-be-packed-out garbage.

But if you want to use it, the Tupperware idea sounds pretty neat & simple.

+1 on the bacon, then frying hashbrowns, then frying eggs. I use awesome uncut peppered bacon.

Pre-cooked bacon first, use what little grease it leaves to cook the pancakes. Nothing to get rid of.

Another precooked bacon user. At home I use some pretty good stuff so you wouldn't think I'd like the precooked. But it's amazing what you'll like out there.

Use it to make pancakes and fry your fish; uber yummy!!

Bacon??? Did you say bacon????

Bacon and Grumpy Old Men

While it's still hot in the pan, throw in a pre-made bag of bannock/fry-bread mix for bacon fry-bread :)

quote deerfoot: "If we bring bacon we bring the precooked stuff - minimal grease to deal with."

+1

quote Jeriatric: "I don't know how well other kinds of greens would subsitute for lambsquarters and I have doubts about that plant occurring in the midwest. Spinach might work."

Lambs Quarters is very common in the mid-west on disturbed soils, lawns, fields, ditches, etc. I haven’t seen much in BWCAW campsites however. Maybe younger fireweed leaves could substitute.

quote PineKnot: "Bacon??? Did you say bacon????

Bacon and Grumpy Old Men "

Forever a classic. Thanks for the laugh. Very few get the punch line when I'm handed a lite beer and refer to it as that sloppin foam.

Bacon grease, pan, popcorn, salt = :)
Just saying...

quote CrookedPaddler1: "I use it all up. Fry bacon, then fry the hasbrowns in bacon grease, then cook eggs in whatever is left. Oh yea, then heat up the bagels on the fry pan when everything else is cooked!"

I second this order of breakfast cooking. Made for some tasty toast at the end.

I use it to seal the seams on my buddy's tent..

quote Savage Voyageur: "We burn it in the fire pit"

+2, bacon grease poured over the burning logs in the fire pit, makes a nice roaring fire.

Hasn't anyone else tried dipping their plastics in beacon grease. Think I heard it increases walleye strikes by over 11%?? Anyone else?

quote benr0: "Bacon grease, pan, popcorn, salt = :)
Just staying..."

A friend in HS had bacon greased popcorn as a snack all the time. His mom made him stop eating it that way and he lost 10 lbs in like 2 weeks...

I just give the bacon grease to the next Canadian I cross paths with.

I made a cooking utensil out of a tin can (horrors of horrors) put a pail on and found a plastic cover for it. One can boil water in etc..

Made just for bacon grease I use the grease through out the trip for cooking many things.

I like the KISS principle.