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I've been rendering my own lard by cooking down packs of bacon "bits & pieces" (leftovers from well manicured bacon products) in a big iron pot on my back porch

I've been rendering my own lard by cooking down packs of bacon "bits & pieces" (leftovers from well manicured bacon products) in a big iron pot on my back porch. About once a week I pull 3-4 cups of fresh lard for cooking, baking, frying, etc. I make enough to keep a deep fryer filled up. Potatoes fried in lard are truly magical. I also had a lot of distrust around using it in pastries due to the smell of pork, but some transformation happens in the oven about halfway through baking. Crisco, et. al. cannot compete with the result.

bediger4000 2y ago
You're getting very salty lard that way. And I am a fan of Lars in baked goods.
unsnap_biceps 2y ago
3-4 cups of lard a week? That's an amazing amount of bacon weekly. When I cook a pound of bacon, I save the lard and get about a cup to a cup and a half of rendered, clean lard. That said, I fry our eggs in lard and make grilled cheese sandwiches with it. Potatoes are amazing, and even sometimes we'll throw some lard with some green beans and finish with a squeeze of lemon.
aldarion 2y ago
Now that is some useful advice!
fuzzfactor 2y ago
I don't even consume it often enough to digest it very well any more, but I was a pork lover and saw this message when the topic was "dead" so I vouched for it to bring it back. This is the way to do it though, although I hope no varmints can get into your bacon grease out on the porch ;) I've mentioned this before but I've boarded a number of chemical tankers and I got the idea that some of these Mates were not going to clean our petrochemicals out of the tanks as well as they could when they got done unloading in South America. Before they started loading the fancy tallow for the return voyage. Sometimes you could even smell it :( Sometimes not, lots of times there's too much chemical smell coming from other vessel compartments :\

bediger4000 2y ago

You're getting very salty lard that way. And I am a fan of Lars in baked goods.

unsnap_biceps 2y ago

3-4 cups of lard a week? That's an amazing amount of bacon weekly. When I cook a pound of bacon, I save the lard and get about a cup to a cup and a half of rendered, clean lard. That said, I fry our eggs in lard and make grilled cheese sandwiches with it. Potatoes are amazing, and even sometimes we'll throw some lard with some green beans and finish with a squeeze of lemon.

aldarion 2y ago

Now that is some useful advice!

fuzzfactor 2y ago

I don't even consume it often enough to digest it very well any more, but I was a pork lover and saw this message when the topic was "dead" so I vouched for it to bring it back. This is the way to do it though, although I hope no varmints can get into your bacon grease out on the porch ;) I've mentioned this before but I've boarded a number of chemical tankers and I got the idea that some of these Mates were not going to clean our petrochemicals out of the tanks as well as they could when they got done unloading in South America. Before they started loading the fancy tallow for the return voyage. Sometimes you could even smell it :( Sometimes not, lots of times there's too much chemical smell coming from other vessel compartments :\