Bacon Grease Week – You Got Some, Now Use Some…

It’s easy to come up with recipes that use bacon grease in exchange of whatever fat you may typically use, especially in baking or frying…but what about other ways to use the drippings from our favorite meat?

Here’s a few to “chew on”:

• Shoo Fly! – Mix in a little bit of vegetable oil to make it a little more runny and sticky. Dump in a pie tin or Styrofoam plate and set out where you don’t want to be “bugged”. The bugs will get stuck when they land in the greasy goodness.  Then all you have to do is trash the container.
• Start my fire – Grab a paper cup and some paper towels, stuff the towels in the cup and then pour in the grease.  Let that set and you’ve got a simple fire starter that will burn clean and hot, almost guaranteed to get the blaze a goin’.
• Polish leather – Believe it or not it’s an inexpensive way to replace leather shoe polish. A dab of cooled bacon grease on a rag helps boots, belts, shoes, etc. to shine. 
• Heal those heels - Before bed, dab some grease on the dry parts of your feet and put on a pair of socks. Just make sure you wash up good and proper in the morning or you’ll have all the dogs in the neighborhood chasin’ you.
  
• Shoo Fly! – Mix in a little bit of vegetable oil to make it a little more runny and sticky. Dump in a pie tin or Styrofoam plate and set out where you don’t want to be “bugged”. The bugs will get stuck when they land in the greasy goodness.  Then all you have to do is trash the container.
• Clean yourself - Yup, any fat can be used to make soap, including bacon grease…
• Start my fire – Grab a paper cup and some paper towels, stuff the towels in the cup and then pour in the grease.  Let that set and you’ve got a simple fire starter that will burn clean and hot, almost guaranteed to get the blaze a goin’.
• For the birds - Here’s a fun little craft.  Grab some pine cones, smear them with the grease and then roll in bird seed.  Viola, a natural bird feeder.
• Make the medicine go down – Puppy won’t have any problem taking their pills when you coat them in bacon grease.

No matter what you end up doing with it, I can guarantee you’d love making it!

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