Start Cooking

Step 4: Start Cooking

All you need to do now is fire up your lamp, pop the pan on top, bung in some fat bacon, and sit back and enjoy the ambiance. After a while the fat will start to liquefy and accumulate at he bottom of the pan. All you need to do is occasionally replenish the fat in your lamp with this liquid from the pan. Make sure the fat has got hot enough to get rid of any water in the bacon. It can make your lamp spit a bit.
Oh, and try not to burn your house down in the process. It's all a bit hot and flammable.

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DanYHKim says: May 16, 2011. 8:57 AM

If you modify the bottom of your cooking pan, it can automatically drip excess bacon fat into the lamp as the bacon cooks. You might get away with driving a nail into the bottom of the cooking pan so it makes a small elevated bump with a hole in the middle. Be sure to do this off-center of the pan, so the grease drips onto the lamp, but not on the wick. The elevation is to ensure that a layer of bacon grease remains in the pan, but any grease that is over this level is drained into the lamp. You may need to somehow have a wire that penetrates the nail hole, so the bacon grease can overcome any surface tension that would keep it from draining. Maybe a bent paper clip or something. Any watery juices will remain in the pan, unable to reach the drain hole.

AMAZONIAbydjljwilliams in reply to DanYHKimJan 10, 2012. 7:10 PM

Wouldn't dripping hot fat, in a trickle out of a hole in the bottom of a bowl, onto a burning flame. with just a bit of oxygen (thanks to those nifty triangles cut in the can) be somewhat of a massive fire hazard?
The fat dripping out the hole, wouldn't be able to completely avoid coating the outer curved face of the cooking pan, even with a paper clip grease guide..over a live flame, I'm thinking this would end up achieving a bacon fat house destroying time bomb, that even Macgyver would be proud of (and whom oddly I am watching on the telly while typing this)