Ready-to-Use Bacon Grease…

Who Makes Bacon Up?

Bacon Up® Bacon Grease is sold by Better N Bacon LLC (BNB). BNB is a small, family business founded and managed by five siblings. They work with the nation’s largest independent producer of pork & bacon to source and package the bacon grease.

Originally from Western Kentucky, the four brothers and one sister grew up in a house where there was always a can of bacon grease by the stove.

“Start with a Scoop” was a way of life in their kitchen.

A few years ago, they were all together for their annual Thanksgiving Turkey Fry. They had gotten a couple five-gallon drums of bacon grease and used it instead of peanut oil in their turkey fryer. It was a (really delicious) “Eureka!” moment.

Before long, they had formed Better N Bacon and established a working relationship with a world-class pork producer to supply and pack the bacon grease.

Where’s Bacon Up Made?

From the very beginning of the Bacon Up brand — and every tub and bucket since — has been produced and filled in Ohio.

The grease “cooks out” as our supplier makes bacon bits and pre-cooked bacon for their other customers from high quality smokehouse-cured bacon. The grease is then triple-filtered to remove all the bits and pieces of bacon, a process that extends Bacon Up’s shelf life (since the meat bits are what go rancid first).

We’re proud to work with one of the nation’s largest family-owned producers of bacon and pork products, right in the country’s heartland. They employ world-class food scientists and use state-of-the-art equipment and processes that are inspected and passed by the US Department of Agriculture to assure food safety.

What’s in Bacon Up?

And what happened to the bacon?!

Bacon Up is 100% authentic bacon grease, captured as our supplier makes bacon bits and pre-cooked bacon for their other customers. Nothing goes to waste! They triple-filter it and pack it into Bacon Up tubs.

Bacon Up contains:

NO seed oils
NO gluten
NO dairy
NO carbs

NO peanuts
NO MSG
A serving (one tablespoon)
has 0g Trans Fat, 0mg Sodium,
and 0g Carbohydrates

Bacon Up is NOT Hydrogenated.

Although Bacon Up contains only ONE ingredient – bacon fat – we are also required to list the ingredients that the bacon MAY have been cured in. Because our supplier prepares bacon with different cures for different bacon products, we list them ALL, just to be on the safe side.

Note that thorough testing by independent food scientists has shown that these “cure” ingredients DO NOT pass through to the bacon grease and are NOT detectable at reportable levels in Bacon Up Bacon Grease. That explains why you see ingredients like salt and sugar in the list of things the bacon may have been cured with, and yet 0mg of Sodium and 0g of Carbs/Added Sugars. Be assured that our Nutrition Facts have been reviewed and approved for accuracy by the USDA!

Ingredients

Rendered Bacon Fat (Bacon cured with Water, Sodium Nitrite, May Contain: Salt, Sea Salt, Potassium Chloride, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Smoked Sugar, Smoke Flavor, Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Erythorbate, Dextrose).

Nutrition Panel

The Nutrition Facts for Bacon Up® Bacon Grease have been reviewed and approved for accuracy by the USDA.

Amount Per Serving
Calories	120
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13g	17%
Saturated Fat 4.5g	23%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 15mg	5%
Sodium 0g	0%
Total Carbohydrate 0g	0%
Dietary Fiber 0g	0%
Total Sugars 0g	0%
Includes 0g Added Sugars	0%
Protein 0g	0%
Vitamin D 0mcg	0%
Calcium 0mg	0%
Iron 0mg	0%
Potassium 0mg	0%

* The Percent Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients and Nutrition Panel for Original Formula

Ingredients

Rendered Bacon Fat (Bacon cured with water; may contain Salt, Sea Salt, Potassium Chloride, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Smoke Flavor Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Ascorbate, Dextrose, Sodium Nitrate), BHA added

Nutrition Facts

Amount Per Serving
Calories	130
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14g	22%
Saturated Fat 4.5g	23%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 20mg	7%
Sodium 0g	0%
Total Carbohydrate 0g	0%
Dietary Fiber 0g	0%
Total Sugars 0g	0%
Includes 0g Added Sugars	0%
Protein 0g	0%
Vitamin D 0mcg	0%
Calcium 0mg	0%
Iron 0mg	0%
Potassium 0mg	0%

* The Percent Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

How should I use Bacon Up?

START WITH A SCOOP OF BACON UP EVERY TIME YOU FRY, COOK, OR BAKE for an extra layer of flavor and a crispier texture. You’ll love the difference it makes in your everyday cooking!

Fry/Cook	Use a 1-to-1 exchange rate
Bake	The rule of thumb is to sub in Bacon Up for 1/2 the shortening, butter or oil called for.

BACON UP IS PERFECT FOR CAST-IRON COOKWARE AND NON-STICK GRIDDLES. Great to cook with, PLUS use it to season and re-season your cast iron and to seal your griddle after cleaning. Wondering about Bacon Up’s SMOKE POINT? Here’s a great article.

Refrigeration is optional for Bacon Up — even after it’s been opened! Bacon Up will change from solid to slushy to liquid (and back again) as its temperature rises (and falls). That’s normal and does not reduce its quality. For long-term storage, we recommend keeping Bacon Up at temperatures below 80°F.

PREVENT CONTAMINATION. For best results and the longest possible shelf life, always use a clean utensil to scoop from the tub AND do not add used grease back into the container.

Safety Cautions

What SHOULDN’T I do with Bacon Up?

Honestly, we haven’t found anything that wasn’t better with Bacon Up – although we haven’t put it in coffee yet.

But here are a few things YOU SHOULD NOT DO:

Do Not Overheat

We recommend a maximum cooking temperature of 380°F.

Do Not Leave unattended

Like all oils, hot bacon grease can splatter and burn. Keep children and pets away from hot grease.

Do Not contaminate

To maintain purity, do not add used grease back into container – especially if hot.

Never pour in trash

Never pour hot grease of any kind (including Bacon Up) in your trash can or compost pile. Wait until it cools and solidifies and then discard it.

Never pour down drain

Never pour ANY grease (including Bacon Up) down your drain. When it cools, it can clog your plumbing.

Never add water

We can’t stress this enough, NEVER add water to hot or flaming grease.