But the best trick is to first fully heat your pan before adding the grease*
I did not know that! I knew sometimes it stuck and sometimes it didn't - but I did not know why...well - that's just exciting - think we will have some of that in the morning! Thanks Green Witch
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rosborne979
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Sat 3 Jan, 2009 06:28 pm
@Green Witch,
Green Witch wrote:
But the best trick is to first fully heat your pan before adding the grease*. Food doesn't stick when you do this.
I didn't know that. Cool. I'll have to try it tomorrow. By the way, the best thing to scramble your eggs in is bacon grease (if you like bacon)
My Mom makes chicken in a basket - I can't do it yet - need to practice I guess...she tears a hole in whole wheat toast and butters both sides...she then puts it in the (Pam sprayed) skillet and cracks an egg in the hole then flips it to finish the other side...it is quite yummy. So cool how she can do that.
love that, i use a round cookie cutter to make a hole in the bread
Ms. Picky likes her eggs whisked briskly at some length and then scrambled past the wet stage but not too far past. Ms. Picky shuns islands of egg white, due to a childhood phobia which lasts til this day re the ugginess of cooked eggwhite. Ms. Picky loves omelets, but, of course prefers them with the egg just right and the stuffing not like the compilation of an entire grocery store.. more like a treasure to be found. She is presently happy enough with the spinach pinon omelet at Calico Cafe on 4th.
I have two favorite fancy-egg dishes. One is huevos rancheros, NM style. Especially favored is the HR served at Dave's Not Here in Santa Fe. The other is a dish I had in Byron Bay in Australia. It was fried eggs over a croissant and served with slices of avocado and baked beans. Yum!
Simple eggs I eat any old way: fried, scrambled, omelet, boiled or poached. just had a boiled egg five minutes ago.
My fancy egg dishes are devolved from asian egg custard things - eggs beaten, some diluent like a bunch of water, chopped scallions, and much this and that, in a glass pie dish, probably oiled or buttered, baked x amount of time.
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ossobuco
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Sat 3 Jan, 2009 08:07 pm
@littlek,
I think a few of us need to make a trip to Dave's Not Here one of these days.
I grew up on foods fried in bacon grease. I guess we must have had lots of bacon because we had a separate bacon fat can in the fridge for frying whatever it was that needed frying, particularly eggs.
I grew up on foods fried in bacon grease. I guess we must have had lots of bacon because we had a separate bacon fat can in the fridge for frying whatever it was that needed frying, particularly eggs.
Geez Louise. So did we.
Plus another can of grease for frying fish. You think it's a Louisiana thing?
(not a bad one, as I still have a container in the fridge)
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hawkeye10
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Sat 3 Jan, 2009 10:15 pm
Quote:
Bacon grease, also known as bacon drippings, is the grease created by cooking bacon. When bacon is cooked, its fat naturally melts, releasing a highly flavorful grease. Bacon grease is traditionally saved in southern U.S. cuisine and used as an all-purpose flavoring for everything from gravy to cornbread[7] to salad dressing.[8]
One teaspoon (4 grams/0.14 ounces) of bacon grease has 38 Calories (160 kJ).[9] It is composed almost completely of fat, with very little additional nutritional value. Bacon fat is roughly 40% saturated.[9] Despite the health consequences of excessive bacon grease consumption, it remains popular in the cuisine of the American South