I tried a little experiment this week, based on a tip-off I got from George. He never leads me astray.

At a dinner party at his house I was cooking up some lamb in a pan when I needed a bit of oil or grease. He handed me a container of rendered bacon fat and told me to have at. What’s this? Rendered bacon fat?!

Lots of Bacon Fat

I had to find out more about this. My coworker informed me, “You know, rendered bacon fat is really just a fancy way of saying lard.” It’s true… congealed animal fat doesn’t necessarily need a fancy foodie title, but I like to think a sparkly name makes it easier to take down some pig fat.

You can make your own rendered bacon fat at home. All you need to do is the next time you make bacon pour the remaining oil through a paper towel into a glass bowl (Not plastic, of course, you don’t want any melty bits all over your counter). Let this set and you’ll have a nice batch of rendered bacon fat to keep in the fridge up to two months.

What can you do with rendered bacon fat? What CAN’T you do?!?!

You can cook eggs in it, or the bacon omlette as I like to call it:

Chop a small onion and red sweet pepper into tiny pieces. Put a teaspoon of RBF into a small non-stick pan and sautee the onion and pepper pieces until soft. Remove from pan. Beat three eggs with a few pinches of salt and pepper into a bowl. Cook the omlette in another teaspoon of RBF, folding in the onions, peppers and some shredded cheese of your choice (I like sharp cheddar). You can add crispy pieces of bacon to this, as well, or just leave it without.

You can pan cook meats with RBF. Last night I made a panko and herb crusted chicken breast browned in RBF over a bed of arugula. Mmmm so crispy.

You can brown potatoes (homefries) in this lovely fat or add it to burgers for some extra flavor. Basically, anything you want to taste sinfully good you can add this to. We’ve probably each gained five pounds just sharing this blog post together, but don’t fret. RBF is a natural animal fat and therefore I’ve dubbed it healthier than any processed fake oil you might use for cooking. Just make sure you pair whatever you cook with a “Canadian Bacon” and you’re good to go.

“Canadian Bacon”
Canadian Whiskey
Maple Syrup
Lemon Juice
…with a rim of Bacon Salt
…and a Bacon Swizzle Stick
-Via Bacon Salt Blog

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