If you didn’t grow up in a family with a cook who taught you how to store bacon grease, it might seem like a foreign concept. We clean off all other pan drippings after cooking, so why save these?

Bacon grease is like liquid gold in the South, so it matters how you keep it. Photo by Polina Tankilevitch In the South, bacon grease can be a pretty hot topic. Every Southerner worth their weight in ...

Is there anything better than the smell of bacon frying in a pan? Well, sure—the bacon itself. But when you fry up a pan of bacon, you’re not just left with salty, smoky pieces of pork; you also have ...