Step 5: Come back tomorrow. Remove the bowl from freezer. At this point the bacon fat has congealed into a solid disk floating on top. Remove that and discard, unless you have a use for congealed bacon fat with whiskyish aftertones. I don't want to know.

Actually, it's not uncommon to save bacon fat (after straining it through cheesecloth or something) and use it like butter or shortening.

I have to post your epic Saw recap to metaquotes.