28 Delicious Ways To Use Leftover Bacon Fat

Some recipes, like pie crust or cookies, will call for cold or room temperature bacon fat, which means that the fat will be solid and you'll cut or beat it into the other ingredients. Other recipes, like sauces or soups, call for you to heat the bacon fat and use it as cooking fat for other ingredients, which means either melting your cold, pre-rendered bacon fat, or using warm, just-rendered bacon fat.

Toss popcorn in a peanutty, slightly spicy bacon fat-based caramel, then add the cooked bacon back in for the perfect sweet/savory mix. Recipe here.

Cooking the chicken in bacon fat carries the flavor over to an extra component of the dish. Recipe here.

This one almost seems too obvious. Recipe here.

There's bacon fat in the batter, but make sure you have extra for greasing the pan to cook the pancakes! Recipe here.

It all just works. Recipe here.

Sautéing shredded Brussels sprouts in a mixture of butter and bacon faster is much faster than roasting them whole. Recipe here.

Easy cheesy. Recipe here.

The original recipe simply called for lard, but blogger Joy knows what's up. Recipe here.

You don't like salads? Here's one to change your mind. Recipe here.

Perfect for your next summer barbecue. Recipe here.

Spoiler alert: the twist is that there's half a cup of bacon fat in the batter. The result is dense and fudgy, with seriously awesome bacon flavor. Recipe here.

A flaky, bacon-y, perfectly textured biscuit is hard to find. Recipe here.

If you're having pork tacos for dinner, might as well go whole hog. Recipe here.

Crisp up some flour tortillas by pan-frying them in bacon fat for quick, delicious crackers. Recipe here.

On a scale of 1 to Brangelina, how dangerously inevitable was this one? Recipe here.

Greasing the loaf pan with bacon fat is a genius way to get a bacon-infused crust. Recipe here.

Yes please. Recipe here.

On the off chance that you find yourself with leftover mashed potatoes, add a little flour, form the mixture into disks, and fry it up in some bacon grease. Recipe here.

Grease pan with bacon fat, toss potatoes with half of the bacon fat, roast, toss potatoes with the remaining bacon fat. Recipe here.

These gluten-free, grain-free "pancakes" are made with coconut flour and egg whites, which give them a fluffy and, dare I say (because I mean, BACON) light texture. Recipe here.

Just a little bit of reserved and refrigerated bacon fat goes a long way in this ice cream base. Recipe here.

Squeeze on everything. Recipe here.

No need to make a separate sauce, since the bacon grease, reduced wine, and melted parmesan will flavor the pasta and keep it from drying out. Recipe here.

Get serious bacon flavor inside and out by cooking bacon, stuffing it in a grilled cheese sandwich, and then frying said sandwich in the rendered fat. Recipe here.

Recipe here.