Shoppers Swear By This $12 Bacon Grease Strainer

Eating succulent, crispy strips of bacon is a bliss of its own. However, saving the liquid gold left in the pan can make other foods just as deliciously rich and smoky. Whether used in scrambled eggs or added to a pot of chili, bacon grease is the resource cooks have been using for ages to upgrade their dishes — but how you store it matters.

If you’re not careful, bacon grease can go rancid quickly. Filtering it through a fine-mesh strainer and into a container — an old coffee tin, a glass Mason jar, or even a coffee mug — may seem compelling, but tiny bits of meat often still sneak through the cracks. For longer-lasting bacon grease “without the bits,” shoppers are turning to this 2-in-1 bacon grease strainer and storage container that’s safer for pouring and holds much more than your recycled salsa jar.

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Barring the plastic handle, this bacon grease container is entirely stainless steel. Unlike aluminum or tin cans, which may have reactive linings, the stainless steel construction is food-safe. It’s also heat-safe, allowing you not only to pour hot bacon grease directly into the container after cooking, but also to place it in the dishwasher for easy cleaning. Certain glass and ceramic containers, on the other hand, may not be resistant to thermal shock and could cause a dangerous mess of oil and shards in your kitchen.

Thanks to the built-in strainer, you’ll never have to balance a pan of oil with one hand and steady a mesh filter with the other. Both the strainer and the container have handles, so you can carry the entire unit to the trash and safely discard the unfiltered food bits from the strainer. One shopper prefers this 48-ounce grease container over glass jars because “the wide mouth means nothing ends up on the outside.” And even if you accidentally drip a bit on the exterior, another shopper says the spill-catching base “makes it mess-free, stress-free.”

Many home cooks keep bacon grease on the stove for quick and easy access, so we wish the handle were made of heat-resistant silicone. However, highly flammable animal fats are best kept away from the stove anyway. Storing it in the fridge, instead, helps maintain peak freshness, which is further enhanced by the filter that shoppers praise for catching “even the smallest amount of debris.” At under 6 inches in diameter, the container fits in most refrigerator door compartments, and the included lid helps to protect the grease from dust and refrigerator flavors.

All in all, the Kyraton Bacon Grease Container is a must-have kitchen tool for bacon lovers, chicken fryers, tallow makers, and more. No matter what you’re frying up, the filter catches unwanted bits and leaves behind delicious fat for use in other dishes. You can grab the tool, rated with five stars by over 3,100 shoppers, in black, green, or red — or snag it in silver for 25% off right now.