When I was growing up my mom would fry a lb of bacon (that's a little less than half a Kg to Lash and Stoat
) and then fry the eggs in the bacon fat to feed the family. I'm sure the amount of extra bacon fat riding on the eggs isn't all that much more than what you get by eating several slices if the bacon anyway. It's the saving of the extra fat in a coffee can and then adding it to all sorts of food that made the difference in our diet. We must have ate a lb a month (thats 454 grams to Lash and Stoat)!
I use the MO a lot. One nice thing to do is take chicken (legs and thighs bone on, skin off) and cook them about half to 3/4 way, then place on the Barb-B-Q on high heat. Cook a few minutes then turn. Cook a few more, then apply Barby sauce. Cook on low two minutes on each side, re-sauce, cook two minutes on each side. You can make this chicken on a weeknight in just about 20 minutes instead of an hour, and you are much less likely to have that nasty raw flesh next to the bone). NEVER cook breast in the MO, unless you plan to add it cut up to soup.
I also use the MO to cook frozen ingredients before adding to a dish. I cut up things like onions, bell peppers, soup veggies, carrots & onion & bell peppers (I can't spell the french name for this but sounds like Mira Puwa). Also, I bake potatos in it, scoop out the insides, mix in cheese, milk, onion, bacon bits, salt and pepper, then return to the skins and add grated cheddar on top and put in the oven to warm back up and brown the top. Twice baked potatos in 1/3 the time!