Never fry bacon naked! Bacon comes out better if you bake it in the oven on sheet pans. No splatter, no mess, and you CAN be naked!I was hoping there was something I could do with bacon grease myself. I'm going to be frying up three pounds of bacon tomorrow and that will mean a lot of grease.
Absolutely true.t's a great thing to have on hand.
Bacon fat is generally consumed in small amounts, comparatively speaking and anything can potentially create a health risk, even water.Using bacon grease in special recipes can add a rich and savory flavor. However, it's high in saturated fats and sodium, so moderation is key. Downsides include potential health risks if consumed excessively. Additionally, strong bacon flavor may not complement all dishes.
Sounds interesting. So, you make a bechamel sauce and crumble in some blue cheese and stir until it's melted?I made another blue cheese bechamel sauce for streamed cauliflower again, one of my favorites, anyway, I used bacon fat instead of butter for the roux, it's a keeper, just thought I'd share.
The onion adds some flavor and sticking a couple of bay leaves to an onion with cloves makes it easier for retrieval as opposed to trying to remove a couple of cloves and bay leaves and could be pretty frustrating I suspect when there is no need for extra texture. I suspect this goes back to the 17th through to the 20th century when French chefs started to refine and codify recipes to showcase and make repetitive consistencies in taste, basically the foundation of French cooking. A consomme is a good example of that technique.It's also traditional to add what's called an onion pique while making the bechamel which is basically an onion stuck with a couple of cloves
I sooo remember my mom standing at the stove with an onion stuck with cloves in the sauce!
Don't remember if there was bay or not, but for some reason that whole onion with the cloves fascinated me. I also couldn't understand why one would throw it out after. Why would you cook something and then throw it out. LOL, just didn't make sense to my child's brain!
Of course she may or may not have saved it and thrown it in something else (a stew or chili?) but I'll never know now.