Eggs: I don't taste the difference between cooking in corn oil vs bacon grease

[FIREin2018]

I always hear that eggs cooked in bacon grease is delicious.
My mom fries eggs using corn oil.

Recently I made bacon and fried eggs in bacon grease. (I usually use  avocado oil)
I didn't notice a difference.

If you fried eggs in both veggie oil and bacon grease, can you taste a noticable difference?

[Metalcat]

This really belongs in off topic.

But it probably comes down to your sense of smell.

[GuitarStv]

Bacon grease is saltier.  That's great main difference I notice . . . but I'm weird in that I don't hold bacon in any special place of reverence.  It's fine, not a be all end all kinda thing.

[Metalcat]

Bacon grease is saltier.  That's great main difference I notice . . . but I'm weird in that I don't hold bacon in any special place of reverence.  It's fine, not a be all end all kinda thing.

The big difference is that bacon grease smells like bacon and flavour comes from smell. That's why I posit that it may be a sense of smell thing.

How is your sense of smell? When I couldn't smell very well for a year after covid, I didn't give a fuck about bacon. It was just greasy and salty.

[GuitarStv]

I think my sense of smell is fine?  I can immediately smell when my wife peels an orange a couple rooms over.  Bacon just tastes/smells kind of like pork grease to me though.  Now I want to get a standardized smelling test though.

[Dicey]

I think my sense of smell is fine?  I can immediately smell when my wife peels an orange a couple rooms over.  Bacon just tastes/smells kind of like pork grease to me though.  Now I want to get a standardized smelling test though.

Is there really such a thing?

[Metalcat]

I think my sense of smell is fine?  I can immediately smell when my wife peels an orange a couple rooms over.  Bacon just tastes/smells kind of like pork grease to me though.  Now I want to get a standardized smelling test though.

Is there really such a thing?

There isn't.

We still don't actually even know how smell works.

[NotJen]

If you fried eggs in both veggie oil and bacon grease, can you taste a noticable difference?

I have fried eggs in olive oil, butter, and bacon grease, and I can taste a difference between all 3.  Can't say I have a true preference - I think they are all delicious.

I like bacon okay, but only in small quantities.  If I make bacon, I do prefer to use the grease instead of wasting it.

[MoseyingAlong]

I think my sense of smell is fine?  I can immediately smell when my wife peels an orange a couple rooms over.  Bacon just tastes/smells kind of like pork grease to me though.  Now I want to get a standardized smelling test though.

Is there really such a thing?

There's a bunch.
"Standardized olfactory tests such as the University Of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) or “Sniffin' Sticks”, the University of Connecticut Test Battery, the Pocket Smell Test, or the Brief Smell Identification Test.  Other tests include Smell-Threshold Test, Smell-Suprathreshold Test, and Smell Unilateral Test."

from https://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/300_399/0390.html

Just one of the first search results.
I find it fascinating what we know and are learning about the human body as well as what we knew and now know is wrong. The other thread about streams of consciousness and how people process the written word was great.

[Metalcat]

I think my sense of smell is fine?  I can immediately smell when my wife peels an orange a couple rooms over.  Bacon just tastes/smells kind of like pork grease to me though.  Now I want to get a standardized smelling test though.

Is there really such a thing?

There's a bunch.
"Standardized olfactory tests such as the University Of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) or “Sniffin' Sticks”, the University of Connecticut Test Battery, the Pocket Smell Test, or the Brief Smell Identification Test.  Other tests include Smell-Threshold Test, Smell-Suprathreshold Test, and Smell Unilateral Test."

from https://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/300_399/0390.html

Just one of the first search results.
I find it fascinating what we know and are learning about the human body as well as what we knew and now know is wrong. The other thread about streams of consciousness and how people process the written word was great.

Neat-o, I don't know why I didn't think there were standardized smell tests...

[cannotWAIT]

I can 100% taste the difference among eggs cooked in butter, olive oil, and bacon fat. It is a dramatic difference to me and I would confidently bet any amount of money on my ability to identify which is which.

[Telecaster]

I make my own bacon (I cure it and smoke it) which says how much I like bacon.  Bacon grease is a noble cooking oil and has many uses.

But I don't really like eggs cooked in bacon.  I think eggs work better with a lighter, more delicate oil like butter.

[RetiredAt63]

I make my own bacon (I cure it and smoke it) which says how much I like bacon.  Bacon grease is a noble cooking oil and has many uses.

But I don't really like eggs cooked in bacon.  I think eggs work better with a lighter, more delicate oil like butter.

I'm also an eggs in butter person.  Generally the bacon grease is too salty.

But both are way way better than corn oil.

[GilesMM]

We prefer our eggs poached.

[GuitarStv]

The key to poaching a good egg is to make sure that the king's men don't catch you in the act and hang you.