Easy Homemade Bacon Mayonnaise Recipe

Learn how to make bacon mayonnaise with this easy recipe. Using that left over bacon grease in this recipe will take your burgers to the next level if you love bacon.

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I know some people don’t always know what to use their left over bacon grease for. I tend to use mine for cooking, things like fried eggs. I’ll also add it to my pan to cook meat or add it to some squash when sauteing or as a butter substitute in mashed squash. When I heard about bacon mayonnaise, I had to give this a try. Though, I never have enough bacon grease on hand to make this recipe so I had to get cooking a lot of bacon. No sad faces about that over here. 

I’ve been making my own mayonnaise for several years now and I’ve tried using blenders and food processers to make it thick like mayonnaise should be. With many failed attempts using those machines, due to adding in the oil in too fast or not enough and over mixing it in the process. I had more failed attempts than I did successful ones. Once I finally got myself an immersion blender, it was like night and day. Never again will I use anything else to make homemade mayonnaise. I have yet to have a failed batch for years now. 

So my suggestion to you, if you want to make no fail mayonnaise and are frustrated with how long it takes with the blender or food processor, get yourself an immersion blender. If you have a great routine with what your using now, then keep doing what works for you. 

Ingredients for Bacon Mayonnaise

1 whole egg – I use eggs from my own chickens but you can use store bought eggs. Try to get organic or pasture raised for the best health and quality of egg.

1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard – Regular or Dijon work

1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon salt – See notes. I prefer Redmond real salt  LINK

2 teaspoons Lemon Juice – you can also use apple cider vinegar

1 cup of leftover bacon fat – If you are just a little short on bacon grease, you can top it off with some avocado oil or olive oil.

How to make Bacon Mayonnaise

First you will need to grab your leftover bacon grease. If you don’t have any, you’ll want to cook about a pound of bacon. Depending on how fatty the bacon is, you may need more slices.

If your leftover bacon grease is solid, you’ll need to melt it down into a liquid. Put it in your cast iron pan and melt it down real quick. Once liquified, add the rendered bacon fat to a tall wide mouth mason jar or 2 cup measuring cup.

On top of that, add in your remaining ingredients, egg, mustard, salt, lemon juice.

Put your immersion blender in to the bottom of the jar of the fat mixture and start blending. As the oil at the bottom gets mixed in with the rest of the ingredients you can slowly move the immersion blender up a bit to mix in more of the oil. Keep doing this until its all mixed together. 

You’ll be left with a thick mayo made with bacon grease. 

Notes

Don’t raise up the stick blender too soon or quickly. Allowing too much oil to mix in with the rest of the mixture too quickly can prevent the mixture from mixing properly and it won’t set up into a thick mayo.

You can use room temperature or cold eggs for this recipe. I have successfully used both and the mayonnaise turns out just fine.

If you feel uncomfortable about using raw eggs you can pasteurize the egg if you want to. Here’s a link to learn how to do that. 

Start with the smaller amount of salt. Since bacon fat already has salt in it you don’t want to add too much. Better to add it later if needed.

I have also added an extra egg yolk to make sure the mayo sets up properly but I have found it is not necessary. If you want to add it in for what ever reason you can. You can save the egg whites for another recipe like an omelette.

What to use Bacon Mayonnaise with?

You can use this with anything that you would like bacon flavor in. This mayonnaise is even good for a keto-based diet.

It’s the perfect spread on some toasted bread for your BLT’s or hamburger buns.

Chicken salad or even egg salad

Potato salad would even be delicious with this added bacon flavor

Use it as a dip with French fries, potato wedges or fresh veggies

Your probably also wondering what to use all this leftover cooked bacon in. Well, there are oodles of ideas. BLT, bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, pizza, chicken salad, stuffed mushrooms, ham and pea soup with bacon, homemade corn chowder. If you want to you can crumble up some of the bacon and mix the bacon pieces into the mayonnaise after you’ve made it.

Storage 

Store in the fridge in an airtight container for up to a month. I like to store it in the mason jar that I made it in.

This will solidify a little bit in the fridge. Though, not as hard as leftover bacon fat would in the fridge. You can leave it on the counter for a few minutes and allow it to soften a bit.

This where you could use a little less bacon grease and substitute half of your grease for avocado oil or olive oil. This will give you a softer mayo.

Products Mentioned

Immersion Blender

Pint Wide Mouth Mason Jar

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