How to of the Day: How to Make a Bacon Grease Fire Starter

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How to Make a Bacon Grease Fire Starter Aug 21st 2012, 00:00 Cooking your beloved bacon means generating lots of bacon grease, which you don't want to pour down the drain (unless you want clogged pipes). Instead of tossing it, you could make some gravy for your biscuits, but you can't always live on biscuits and gravy--at least, not for very long! Here's a practical idea for turning bacon grease into a fire starter. Bacon grease is flammable and in the right conditions it can burn for quite some time. As such, it can also be used to start a fire in your fireplace, at a campsite, or pretty much wherever. The steps are simple, so here's what you need to do. Edit Steps Cook the bacon as usual. Drain it on paper towels or on a wire rack. Allow the bacon grease to cool. It should be cool enough to handle safely, but warm enough to stay in liquid form. Generally, the time needed for this can be however long it takes you to eat the meal you have prepared the bacon for. If it congeals, you can always reheat it. Stuff paper towels into the paper cup. Leave a dry corner out to serve as a wick. If you used paper towels to drain the bacon earlier, that's what you can put into the cup. Pour the bacon grease into the cup. Freeze until ready for use. While optional, it's generally a good idea to freeze this if you're not going to use it right away. Bacon grease has a nasty habit of making a mess, so keeping it frozen is a good way to prevent this. Use it like a candle: The paper towel will act as a wick for the fuel (the bacon grease), and the flame will melt the bacon grease. All in all, you can get a good flame for about 30 minutes out of this. Edit Tips If you have pine cones handy, you can soak them in bacon grease for another variation of this project. Edit Warnings This is flammable. Store and use with care. Edit Things You'll Need Leak-proof paper cup (for best results, one suitable for hot liquids) Bacon to cook and its resulting grease Paper towels on which to drain the bacon Edit Related wikiHows How to Fry Bacon How to Freeze Bacon How to Buy Bacon Article Tools Read on wikiHow Email this Article Edit Discuss Media files: 200px-P1270102.jpg (image/jpeg) 200px-Make-a-Bacon-Grease-Fire-Starter-Step-1.jpg (image/jpeg) 200px-Make-a-Bacon-Grease-Fire-Starter-Step-2.jpg (image/jpeg) 200px-Make-a-Bacon-Grease-Fire-Starter-Step-3.jpg (image/jpeg) 200px-Make-a-Bacon-Grease-Fire-Starter-Step-4.jpg (image/jpeg) 200px-Make-a-Bacon-Grease-Fire-Starter-Step-5.jpg (image/jpeg)

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