Posted on 08/25/2021 2:41:34 PM PDT by mylife
A few weeks ago, I joined my good friend Cara for an evening of bacon, eggs, and Night Mimosas (mimosas consumed, perhaps trashily, after 7 p.m.). We were celebrating a bit of good news the way all distinguished ladies do: by eating breakfast for dinner.
After Cara fried up the bacon and sloshed out a few Night Mimosas, I volunteered for egg-frying duty. I sidled up to her skillet, which was, to my delight, full of rapidly hardening bacon grease. Cara apologized and offered to wash out the skillet. I looked her dead in the eye, shook my head slowly, and cracked five eggs directly into the pan. She watched wide-eyed as I spent the next five minutes slugging a Night Mimosa and flinging grease over the tops of the eggs. The result: five perfect eggs with runny yolks, lacy edges, little crispy brown bits up top, and perfectly pillowy whites.
Cara was stunned. She had never seen anyone baste an egg in bacon grease. This concerned me, as I had always assumed bacon-basting was a common practice. It’s my preferred egg variation; my mom does it, and her mom did it before her. But I realize now that not all families engage in reckless full-fat cooking for three meals a day, seven days a week. If, like Cara, you grew up in a low-to-moderate-fat household, this is my plea: start frying up your eggs in bacon fat. You won’t regret it.
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Except on meatless Fridays for Catholics and others who observe Friday abstinence.
It’s the best way to fry an egg.
Not particularly healthy though.
Celebrity in Hungary used to sell called bacon at kmart 99c lb
always in my camper pantry when it was still unavailable
Nah, I’ll stick to my personal favorite - scrambled eggs done low and slow using butter. But using a little bacon grease when doing the pancakes on the griddle is marvelous.
ROFLMAO
I’ve basted them in butter, but not bacon grease. Now I’m not supposed to fry my eggs anymore, I can scramble, make omelettes, or hard boil- they must be fully cooked.☹️
that too...
Bacon and Eggs Baked in a Muffin Tin
Yes, in fact cast iron skillets were all we had. We were poor. The handle was broken off one of them and mom still used it. Spouses should be so loyal.
O do about the same but use 50/50 bacon grease/olive oil or bitter/olive oil if we don't have bacon grease. Butter by itself will just burn.
Have to reply - fried Chicken made in bacon grease = Yum! 😋
DAK canned Danish bacon is what I remember in the late 50-60s.
The bacon was paper wrapped and one needed to cut the can top and bottom to push the wrapped bacon out. Remember my mom using the wrap to lightly grease the skillet...sinful to waste all that pork fat.
Danish bacon is not from pork bellies, pin cut IIRC,more meat.
DAK still sells canned Danish ham, good pantry item. Search revealed DAK does still sell bacon but it’s vacuum packed... Sam’s Club has it
Just make sure there's no dogs around.
You’ll have it that long?
Not quite in the same boat, and good luck to you, but I feel extremely lethargic after eating eggs in bacon grease vs butter. The same clogging that happens if the grease is poured down the drain apparently happens in my circulatory system to some degree.
You must not be hungry when you start. Reminds me of pig cookouts...
LOL. Just having fun.
Unlike Muslims, Jews don’t care what OTHER people eat.
Yep. It’s going in a hot pan and frying stuff up. Ate the yolks and ate the fat on the steaks.
A good, well seasoned cast iron skillet is a MUST. I have a half dozen heirloom (several generations) skillets. Well, seasoned.
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