FWIW, our African Grey likes turkey.
Grease is poured off into a metal can then stored in the freeze. It seems a shame to throw it away, but that is what i do. I am in favor of further separating garbage for salvage of compostable items, oils and grease.
Another form of resource extraction, already in hand!
What. You DON’T keep your mom under the sink and throw her out when she’s full?
We eat turkey bacon. The small amount of fat generated during cooking is blotted up with a paper towel.
In the trash.
1 QT Ball canning jar in the refrigerator.
Small glass jar in the fridge. The layer on the bottom is … oh dear … elderly, but everything looks/smells OK. I don’t use it as often as I’d like to. Those of you who use it daily - what for? (Probably everywhere I use butter, I suppose. We go through a lot of butter.)
I pour my hot bacon and beef fat into glass jars, let it cool, then store it in my fridge and use it for frying other things (veg/eggs/fish in my case).
you save beef fat? I always heard cooking in beef fat wasn’t healthy. This was from older Southern relatives that flavored almost everything in bacon fat or lard. When they cooked hamburgers the fat was thrown out. They never added it to the bacon fat jar.
I’m no health expert. But, based on my childhood memories I’ve always thrown out hamburger/beef fat.
Interesting difference in families.
Total WAG, aceplace57, but maybe it’s because bacon has so much salt and smoke and/or nitrates/ites, and beef has little to none, so bacon fat is easier to preserve than straight-up beef fat?
Good point. Pork is easier to preserve than beef.
I have what is probably a really stupid question . … but. . .
I don’t really eat bacon, never cook it, and my family never really did either. I can understand wanting to keep some bacon grease for cooking, but why do people keep whole jars of it? Is it that you can’t throw it away or you don’t want to?
I think it’s because you don’t want to pour it down the drain, nor have it in the wastebasket.
Why not?
I told you, I’m just full of dumb questions.
It will clog the drain. It will make the wastebasket nasty and smell bad.
It will also, on the other hand, make potatoes and things taste extra-good.
When I was growing up, my parents would store the fat in the juice can until it was full, then toss the can in the garbage on pick-up day. It’s bad to dump it down the drain, as it can congeal and clog it up, and in addition to the smell issues, it’s also a pain to wait for it to cool before throwing it in the kitchen trash.
For people who store it under the sink, on the counter, etc. Do all of you store it for later disposal, or do some of you dispose it outside of the refrigerator, and use it later for cooking?
How long does bacon grease stay edible outside the refrigerator? How about inside the refrigerator?
Until you see tiny little footprints in it. 
My mother certainly never cooked with beef fat, or bacon fat for that matter. I do only because I’ve done a lot of research on nutrition and am of the opinion that meat, animal fat, and saturated fats are very healthy foods for the human body (and industrial vegetable/seed oils that oxidize upon heating are emphatically not). They compose the majority of my calories, and since I need to eat a lot of calories and I don’t have the money to cook everything in butter, I save all fats rendered from meat I cook and add them to other foods.