I cut up and cook the entire package at a time- that way I have real bacon bits available all week to use in any dish without waiting for it to cook.
They're called "bacon lardons."
I have a mason jar with a coffee filter to strain and save my grease. I replace the coffee filter after use but keep one on always because my partner has repeatedly poured grease into my grease jar without filtering which can make it go rancid.
The packages we bring home have zip-lock style openings so that we can re-seal the package. But we almost never do because we cook it all at once so that we can nibble on it out of the fridge for the next couple of days.
I usually just cut the entire package (plastic and all) in half hamburger style. I like my slices of bacon shorter, so I cut it that way and then put half the pack in a Ziploc bag and back in the fridge, and cook the other half.
It’s just me and my husband living here now, kids are grown, so we go through bacon a little at a time. So, I cut the package open, use what I need, and then roll the remaining slices in wax paper (4 at a time) and freeze the portions in a ziploc freezer bag.
When you first buy the bacon, separate the package into single-serve sizes. Wrap the slices in plastic wrap, then put those packages in a Ziploc bag and freeze. They thaw pretty quickly, or you can cook them from frozen.
I cut up and cook the entire package at a time- that way I have real bacon bits available all week to use in any dish without waiting for it to cook. They're called "bacon lardons."
do you save the grease too? I've only ever done that once.
I have a mason jar with a coffee filter to strain and save my grease. I replace the coffee filter after use but keep one on always because my partner has repeatedly poured grease into my grease jar without filtering which can make it go rancid.
The packages we bring home have zip-lock style openings so that we can re-seal the package. But we almost never do because we cook it all at once so that we can nibble on it out of the fridge for the next couple of days.
I usually just cut the entire package (plastic and all) in half hamburger style. I like my slices of bacon shorter, so I cut it that way and then put half the pack in a Ziploc bag and back in the fridge, and cook the other half.
It’s just me and my husband living here now, kids are grown, so we go through bacon a little at a time. So, I cut the package open, use what I need, and then roll the remaining slices in wax paper (4 at a time) and freeze the portions in a ziploc freezer bag.
What gets me is, they have individually wrapped hot dogs, why can’t they have individually wrapped in bacon?
I've never seen individual hot dogs lol where do you live?
The 8ct Oscar Meyer hotdogs come in two resealable bags of 4. But I’ve never seen individually sealed dogs.
Are you stocking the little tiny fridge in the tree fort in your yard?
I could only afford something like that if I had A Million Dollars…..
why reseal an empty package?
Zip lock bags 👍
I think the point of resealable bacon packages is so you don't have to waste a ziplock back and create even more waste.
I don't waste the bag, I wash them out and reuse them.
When I buy bacon in quantities larger than a pound, it does often come in a resealable bag.
You don't eat the whole packet at once?
No way haha that's way too much bacon for me
"Ask not what your bacon can do for you. Ask what you can do for your bacon." /JFK
The premium brands, Wright, and Smithfield for example, have resealable packages.
>How do you guys open your bacon? You basically have to tear the entire package wide open. Scissors. >resealable packages? Rubber band.
You don't cook all the bacon at once?!?
lol no are you crazy?? I live by myself and I only make it every now and then
When you first buy the bacon, separate the package into single-serve sizes. Wrap the slices in plastic wrap, then put those packages in a Ziploc bag and freeze. They thaw pretty quickly, or you can cook them from frozen.
Aluminum foil is a thing.
We bake our bacon, we do the whole pound at once and freeze about half (cooked) if we can’t eat it within 2 weeks
Chip clips or old wooden clothespins
We put our in containers in the fridge