I sent you a note yesterday saying that I found your videos. As I watch more of them the more you remind me of my family. It may be different decades but you could have been my father. You even dress alike. We had lard but mostly used our smoked bacon grease. I enjoy your videos.
Hey Micah I thought some body might loose a finger when you set that plate of bacon down 😂. I’m glad you cooked the bacon I was wondering how the real fatty bacon was going to be. I never thought of Cracklin‘s ,my gosh I bet they are great!!!great video!!! Happy New Year!!!
I've used bacon grease (drippins) my whole life for cooking frying potatoes, eggs. And fresh caught trout and greasing my skillets especially when making cornbread.
A lot of the oldest people I have known grew up on lard, bacon grease, and real butter. They lived to be nearly 100. But keep in mind they also raised their stuff like you. And they ate a lot of stuff from the garden, high in fiber. And they worked hard. We are killing ourselves eating hydrolyzed oils and food so processed it should be illegal to label it as food.
Lol, I always save my bacon grease too! I have to try my eggs in bacon grease. Gives them alot better flavor. Apparently I've been hearing that it makes good Lynx cat lure as well. Happy new year to you and your family, Brother!
Great video, as always. If you've never done this, try using the bacon grease in sweet baked goods, in place of butter, margarine, or shortening. (Cakes, cookies, etc..) Sounds gross, but the effect can be amazing.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures also not to tell a man how to do his job but when you smoke fish use this: 3 parts of any brown sugar and 1 part of NON IODIZED salt and then any other spices you want. Put the dry-brine on and leave just as you have always done. Then when the time is up you can rinse it, I do, or not but IMPORTANTLY hang or place on racks and let it dry well. I usually rinse and then blot with paper towels and rack it for 4-5 hours, longer if it’s colder which is better. You want the surface DRY because it will take smoke better. Then either hot smoke or cold smoke until it’s dry but not a rock. Then it’s fish salad, on sandwiches in pieces, salads, fish noodle casserole etc. Also that blood/ line if you score it to the skin but not through the skin, then you can scrape it out with a spoon before you do the salting process, it takes some of the “extra fishiness” out if you want to.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures also so there is no misunderstanding the dry brine stays on for 24 hours. 48 for fish jerky. And when you brine do it in a container. After it’s ready it will be in a liquid, that is where the salt and sugar drew out the moisture. And when I rinse I don’t go crazy. Just trying to get the excess salt off. You can leave it on if you want a saltier profile. But you must let that fish at that point get dry. Really it’s a dry tackiness that you want, that’s called the pellicle and it helps the smoke stick and penetrate the fish.
IT'S LIKE BACON WITHOUT THE BACON LOL 😂😂😂😂BUT OOOHHH SO TASTY!! I LOVE TO PAN FRY BRUSSELS SPROUTS IN BACON FAT WITH A BIT OF ONION OR SHALLOTS IT'S THE MOST DELICIOUS WAY TO EAT THEM 💖💖💖 GOOD VIDEO BUDDY!!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures I WISH IT WAS ACCEPTABLE TO BATHE IN BACON FAT HAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂OH CAN YOU IMAGINE? LOL! I’M SO SORRY THAT IT ARRIVED SO LATE I POSTED IT SO LONG AGO BUT CANADA POST HAS HAD COVID AT MANY SORTING OFFICES SO THERE HAS BEEN MANY DELAYS OVER THE HOLIDAY. GLAD YOU LIKED IT, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL BUDDY!!
@@VintageVibesHomestead You are very kind and I hope for the same thing! I do however still need to hear your accent 😂 I picture it in my head to be the same as a story teller I used to listen to on the radio by the name of Mrs G? You might find her talkin online and tell me if that’s the one???
No refrigerator necessary. But I do keep most of it in the outside kitchen where it’s cooler than in the house. I’ve never known bacon grease to spoil.
I'm thinking their diet will determine how much fat is on the hogs.. I know mine does😭.. I've seen other mangalitsa'😂s butchered with more meat in their bacon. I used to have a hog, Matilda bell.. she loved beer.. she loved everything😂..
I’ve also got three litters currently and people aren’t buying right now. Money getting tight I guess. We always eat what we don’t need to keep and can’t sell.
Gotta ask. What brand is the phone holster? I have been looking far a decent holster and cannot find anything that suits me. Notice this once looks pretty good.
I put it in glass canning jars when it’s hot and tighten the lid good so that it seals…… it will last for years like that, but it doesn’t last that long!
Your bacon started off just fat. The one picture of real bacon at one point. In the end you were feeding the boys plain fried fat. No wonder it was cracklings! 😳 NOT BACON 🥓
Not much.... we live to visit but I run a construction company and between that and running the farm and TH-cam channel you can imagine how much free time we have 😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures expect something Thursday. If you can’t use it, feel free to pass it on to another homesteader that can. I think you can find a use for my little gift though. I appreciate the videos. Not looking for or wanting any recognition. Just something I noticed in a few videos that work well for me.
I sent you a note yesterday saying that I found your videos. As I watch more of them the more you remind me of my family. It may be different decades but you could have been my father. You even dress alike. We had lard but mostly used our smoked bacon grease. I enjoy your videos.
That’s really great! I’m very happy that my boys will have these memories as well!
Hey Micah I thought some body might loose a finger when you set that plate of bacon down 😂. I’m glad you cooked the bacon I was wondering how the real fatty bacon was going to be. I never thought of Cracklin‘s ,my gosh I bet they are great!!!great video!!! Happy New Year!!!
Good thing we didn’t close our eyes for a blessing! No telling how many fingers would have been lost😂😂😂😂
Listening to the crunch got my mouth watering
That’ll definitely do it!!😂😂😂
Love it! Bacon grease is great for cooking. The best!
And SSOOOOOO HEALTHY!
So enjoyable to watch you and beautiful family Thank you GOD BLESS from a grams in Hawaii 🇺🇸🤙🏽🍍🌴❤️🌺
Thanks Margaret! We really enjoy bringing you the videos!
I've used bacon grease (drippins) my whole life for cooking frying potatoes, eggs. And fresh caught trout and greasing my skillets especially when making cornbread.
It’s the perfect thing for the job!
It is good for healing wounds on horses too! I always keep a jar of bacon grease on hand.
Awesome! Does it cure constipation?😂😂😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures depends on what end ya put it in, but I would think so... 🤣
😂😂😂
Those slices of pork hanging is so pretty. Wonderful wood cook stove. ❄️
I agree! Thanks!
I always have to make sure I watch your videos AFTER I eat! ;-)
Very true!!! I need to put warnings on my videos 😂😂😂
A lot of the oldest people I have known grew up on lard, bacon grease, and real butter. They lived to be nearly 100. But keep in mind they also raised their stuff like you. And they ate a lot of stuff from the garden, high in fiber. And they worked hard. We are killing ourselves eating hydrolyzed oils and food so processed it should be illegal to label it as food.
That’s very true! We die early because it’s so convenient!
Lol, I always save my bacon grease too! I have to try my eggs in bacon grease. Gives them alot better flavor. Apparently I've been hearing that it makes good Lynx cat lure as well.
Happy new year to you and your family, Brother!
Thanks brother! Always fry eggs in B.G 🍳🍳🍳🥓🥓🥓
Only 1 for the cameraman.. 😂😂😂.. he must be furious.. 😂😂
😂🤣😂 that’s a very good point!!!😂🤣😂
We only ever saved bacon grease for bear baiting. I got lots of bacon to try this out.
That’s awesome! Everything is great fried in it.... or even in biscuits..... I bet bears go crazy for it!
Great video, as always. If you've never done this, try using the bacon grease in sweet baked goods, in place of butter, margarine, or shortening. (Cakes, cookies, etc..) Sounds gross, but the effect can be amazing.
Oh my yes! I can definitely imagine!!!
Eating as the good Lord intended! That bacon looked 👍 great! Yummy 😋 😍
The pig was a vegan so I don’t have to be 😂😂😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures 😆 🤣 😂
Yum! You made some great points.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the video 👍
My pleasure!!
Man that bacon looks good. Can’t wait for the next video
Yes it’s pretty good! We’ve got a great lineup coming!
I bet that bacon tasted awesome ! I remember my grandma always saving her bacon grease . I hope you guys have a great New Years !
Thanks brother !!! Bacon grease is like gold! I say gold is worth it’s weight in bacon grease!
That bacon looks so good! I love making fried potatoes in bacon grease.
Oh yes that’s the best potatoes on earth!!! Crispy or soft..... either way!
Bacon grease and popcorn!!!
Pops the best popcorn.
Oh absolutely! Everything is better with bacon grease!😂
Wow looks good and yum
It is! Thanks!
I need to jar mine up like that. Love me some bacon grease.
Oh yes it’s the quality of life!😅🤣😂
What time is breakfast? That bacon 🥓 looks DELICIOUS.
Breakfast is on!
You should try baking the bacon. 350 and flip about 1/2 way through! Still get the grease and the bacon doesn’t shrink as bad, at least store bacon!
Oh that’s a great idea! Thanks buddy!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures also not to tell a man how to do his job but when you smoke fish use this: 3 parts of any brown sugar and 1 part of NON IODIZED salt and then any other spices you want. Put the dry-brine on and leave just as you have always done. Then when the time is up you can rinse it, I do, or not but IMPORTANTLY hang or place on racks and let it dry well. I usually rinse and then blot with paper towels and rack it for 4-5 hours, longer if it’s colder which is better. You want the surface DRY because it will take smoke better. Then either hot smoke or cold smoke until it’s dry but not a rock. Then it’s fish salad, on sandwiches in pieces, salads, fish noodle casserole etc. Also that blood/ line if you score it to the skin but not through the skin, then you can scrape it out with a spoon before you do the salting process, it takes some of the “extra fishiness” out if you want to.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures also so there is no misunderstanding the dry brine stays on for 24 hours. 48 for fish jerky. And when you brine do it in a container. After it’s ready it will be in a liquid, that is where the salt and sugar drew out the moisture. And when I rinse I don’t go crazy. Just trying to get the excess salt off. You can leave it on if you want a saltier profile. But you must let that fish at that point get dry. Really it’s a dry tackiness that you want, that’s called the pellicle and it helps the smoke stick and penetrate the fish.
@@donniewillis2926 Great advice! Thanks so much!
I've got lard canned so I can trade it...you know, later. I wouldn't mind having mangalitsa lard though.
We’ll definitely make a “deal”😃
Good reason!
Took months to figure out why😂🤣
IT'S LIKE BACON WITHOUT THE BACON LOL 😂😂😂😂BUT OOOHHH SO TASTY!! I LOVE TO PAN FRY BRUSSELS SPROUTS IN BACON FAT WITH A BIT OF ONION OR SHALLOTS IT'S THE MOST DELICIOUS WAY TO EAT THEM 💖💖💖 GOOD VIDEO BUDDY!!
I agree!!! Hey thanks for the awesome card Jo!!!! That was so sweet!!!!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures I WISH IT WAS ACCEPTABLE TO BATHE IN BACON FAT HAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂OH CAN YOU IMAGINE? LOL! I’M SO SORRY THAT IT ARRIVED SO LATE I POSTED IT SO LONG AGO BUT CANADA POST HAS HAD COVID AT MANY SORTING OFFICES SO THERE HAS BEEN MANY DELAYS OVER THE HOLIDAY. GLAD YOU LIKED IT, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL BUDDY!!
@@VintageVibesHomestead It was very special to me....... almost but not quite as awesome as a bacon grease bath on a cold night!!!😂🤣😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures HAHAHAHAHA YES I THINK THE FAT JUST GOT THE EDGE LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I MEANT EVERYTHING I WROTE AND HOPE TO ENJOY MANY MORE VIDEOS!
@@VintageVibesHomestead You are very kind and I hope for the same thing! I do however still need to hear your accent 😂 I picture it in my head to be the same as a story teller I used to listen to on the radio by the name of Mrs G? You might find her talkin online and tell me if that’s the one???
👍👍👍👍
Question, do you refrigerate your jared grease? Or would it keep in a cabinet being that it’s in a sealed jar? Thanks for the video 🐷=🥓
No refrigerator necessary. But I do keep most of it in the outside kitchen where it’s cooler than in the house. I’ve never known bacon grease to spoil.
Cod liver oil could not get sick around my mom and daddy you were going to get cod liver oil LOL
😂😂😂 I don’t know what it tastes like but it’s probably not like bacon grease!😂
Oh I had my share of that stuff as a kid, had to pinch my nose to take it😩
@@CampDogOutdoors 🤧🤧🤧
I'm also in Tennessee the Lewisburg area wouldn't mind sharing a BLT sandwich with ya sometime
Sounds delicious! I’m in the Cookeville area
From the look of them boys that bacon must not be fit to eat. Haha. I thought they were going to lick the plate
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm thinking their diet will determine how much fat is on the hogs.. I know mine does😭.. I've seen other mangalitsa'😂s butchered with more meat in their bacon. I used to have a hog, Matilda bell.. she loved beer.. she loved everything😂..
I’m definitely going to try for more meat next time!
I've been doing the same thing for over sixty years,,
It works like a charm!!!
I have my first litter of mangalitsa. I need help marketing the males I don't need to keep
I’ve also got three litters currently and people aren’t buying right now. Money getting tight I guess. We always eat what we don’t need to keep and can’t sell.
Gotta ask. What brand is the phone holster? I have been looking far a decent holster and cannot find anything that suits me. Notice this once looks pretty good.
I get it from the leather shop in Muddy Pond Tennessee. They might do online selling if you are too far away.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures Jay's Custom Leather or Mountain Leather? I can give em a call.
Jay’s should have it….. if not he’ll steer you in the right direction 😉
Do you reuse all the leftover salt that you packed the meat in?
I usually use it twice.
😋 Bacon 🥓
Better cooked??? Lol😂😂😂
Wilbur would appreciate all this fame and screen time!
😂🤣😂 very true JJ!!😂🤣😂
You can't beat soybean oil, ina diesel fuel tank .🎉f j b 😊
😂😂😂 absolutely!
Do you reuse the salt that was used to cure the meat? If so, how long do you keep it?
I use it through a fall/ winter season and toss it. It’s great weed killer!
I am now hungry for some reason
I’m gonna try bacon with camp dog...... gotta be good!
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures read the directions 😆
I only slop feed my hogs thats y theres so much fat on them realy thick bacon sides
That’s awesome!! 🥓
How do you store bacon? And for how long?
I ment the bacon grease
I put it in glass canning jars when it’s hot and tighten the lid good so that it seals…… it will last for years like that, but it doesn’t last that long!
Your bacon started off just fat. The one picture of real bacon at one point. In the end you were feeding the boys plain fried fat. No wonder it was cracklings! 😳 NOT BACON 🥓
That seems to be the Mangalitsa story. Next time I’ll kill it younger and see if that helps.
Do you sale pigs without so much fat
Nope. Fat is where it’s at!
Do you ever let people come visit your homestead
Not much.... we live to visit but I run a construction company and between that and running the farm and TH-cam channel you can imagine how much free time we have 😂
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures I just live close I think and would like to see how to you are setup and how the smoker shed is built
Maybe we can work out a visit when things slow down. I’d definitely like to meet you!
That would be awesome I live Westmorland area.
Oh, my, too bad you don't have smell-o-vision!
😂🤣😂. Very true! It’s so good!!
Whos frank
Frank would be my brother in law’s father, my mother in law’s ex, and my favorite old man to pick on!
Get a funnel!!!!
😂😂😂
Do you have an address viewers can mail gifts to you all?
Yes it’s
PO Box 4
Livingston Tn 38506
We don’t promote giving us things , but we definitely appreciate the kindness that some have shown.
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures expect something Thursday. If you can’t use it, feel free to pass it on to another homesteader that can. I think you can find a use for my little gift though. I appreciate the videos. Not looking for or wanting any recognition. Just something I noticed in a few videos that work well for me.
@@w4ame Oh man! I’m excited! Thanks so much!
Man ur bacon must be so salty I don’t like that much bacon
It’s not very salty...... it was so thick and dense. It’s like store bought
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures ya well that’s good