Heloise Dear Heloise: This hint to remove grease from soups involves putting ice cubes in a metal ladle and sitting the bottom of the ladle on the surface of a soup. The cold ladle causes the ...

Bacon grease, which is solid at room temperature ... You'll want to start this recipe by adding your rendered, cold bacon fat ...

I had intermittent problems with “air locking” the grease gun, especially in cool or cold weather. When I started storing the grease tubes vertically, the air-locking problem went away.