bacon. That delicious, salty food that makes breakfasts, lunches and dinners even better. If you used to throw away the fat after cooking bacon, this list might change your mind. Store your bacon grease in a jar and use it for these 7 genius tips!
1. Remove Stuck-On Labels
Bacon grease is ideal for removing sticker residue from labels. Simply spread a little bacon grease on the affected area, then use a scrubbing brush and ordinary cleaning product to remove it. It’s easy!
2. DIY Candles
Love bacon so much that you want to make a candle out of it? Well, you can! Click here for an easy tutorial on how to make candles out of old bacon grease. Sounds like a fun project for a rainy afternoon!
3. The Perfect Eggs
And one more thing to cook bacon grease in… eggs! Just pop a spoonful into your pan before cracking the eggs, and you’ll have the most delicious, flavorful eggs in existence.
4. Make Some Sweet And Savory French Toast
Speaking of delicious things to cook with bacon grease, why not make French toast? If you add a little bacon grease to the pan in which you fry the toast, the taste will be a perfect combination of sweet and savoury. Anyone else drooling?
5. Fry Up Some Potatoes
What could possibly be more delicious than perfectly seasoned baby potatoes? Well, baby potatoes that are fried in bacon grease. Although you may not want to make this version every morning, it’s a wonderful hack for over-the-moon tasty potatoes.
6. Grease Any Pans
Bacon grease isn’t just useful for cast iron skillets. You can use it to grease any pan instead of using olive oil, coconut oil, cooking spray, or anything else you generally use.
7. Grease Your Skillets
Cast iron skillets are great for a number of reasons, but they’re also pretty hard to take care of. If you coat your skillet in a bit of bacon grease before cooking with it, it will stay clean and rust-free for longer.
