bacon fat
Rendered pork drippings
Bacon fat is the rendered grease from cooking bacon, prized in traditional cooking for frying eggs, seasoning vegetables, or flavoring dishes like beans and greens.
Home cooks often save it in a jar by the stove: She fried the potatoes in bacon fat.
The term also refers to the fatty portions of uncooked bacon.
- drippingsFat released during cooking
- greaseThick oily lubricant
- lardClarified pork fat
- renderedDepicted or processed
- sizzleSound of frying
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- Fats and Oilsvegetable oil, olive oil, coconut oil, canola oil, sunflower oil
- cooking fatslard, shortening, tallow, vegetable oil, suet
- Fatlard, blubber, suet, tallow, adipose
- animal fatslard, tallow, suet, schmaltz, ghee
- pork fatslard, fatback
- fats and greasesgrease, lard, tallow, suet, drippings
cooking fat source
bacon fatvegan butter
Non-dairy butter substitute
olive oil · coconut oil · vegetable oil · avocado oil · canola oil
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