Is Boric Acid your source of boron? I think I have some of that somewhere. It was supposed to be used for roaches. Never had much luck just spreading it out by itself like they said to do. I don't think roaches are that stupid.
Didn't know, so I just checked. Smithfield did start in North Carolina. The Wikipedia website goes on for pages with their history. Maybe I shouldn't buy it anymore.
When you're cutting calories it most certainly does. Lettuce and tomato are too much trouble. Mayo is a definite No-No. Four more pounds to go.
There are a couple, one more general: Bacon | SENIORSonly CLUB Bacon is not bad for losing weight because it has fat and protein. Sticks to your ribs (slow to digest). Bacon alone would be even better, but it disappears too quickly. I usually make a half sandwich with two slices of bacon and one bread, NOT cut in a diagonal, and eat it on the fly. Even while walking up the stairs. The longer you cook it the more fat gets left in the skillet, and the lower the calories. I like it cooked just to the point where it's not stretchy, but not crumbly either. The taste of the bacon alone is good. No need for mayonnaise. Sweet bread, salty bacon. Perfect. It seems there is a campaign to shame you into liking thick bacon. It must be cheaper to cut. I like it thin (normal).
My Mother used to save bacon grease in an empty soup can. not sure what she did with it. 20 ways to use Bacon Grease #11. Baconnaise..??
So did mine. I have a large cottage cheese carton in the freezer full of bacon grease now. You can use it to fry eggs or potatoes. She probably used it for skillet corn bread too.
I'm not sure how she stored it....I was trying to avoid using "tin can". It probably had a lid of sorts and plastic makes sense.
The cottage cheese carton will begin to bulge out in the middle if you pour bacon grease straight from a hot skillet. It will probably melt. I have to let it cool a little. Just didn't have anything else available at the time.
My grandma stored her bacon grease in an old coffee can. It sat on the kitchen counter and she used it for frying eggs, and whatever else she may have needed a little tasty grease for.
I keep my bacon grease in a 1/2 pint canning jar in the fridge. When I run low, I buy cheap bacon to replenish it because the cheap stuff yields the most fat. Disgusting bacon grease story: When I lived in my first apartment, I used to pour my bacon grease in a beer can kept on the back of the stove, and then throw it out when it got full and was cooled off. So one day I'm doing housework and I'm working real hard and I reach for my beer and I take a big slug..... No matter how much hot water I swished, no matter how much toothpaste I used, no matter how much bread I chewed, I could not remove that sickly slick feeling.
You can use borax, boron or boric acid. But you have to mix it with something they like to eat that is a bit liquidy. They will clean it off of themselves, ingesting it, if they step in it but they pretty much avoid doing that.