What to do with Banana Peels?

[bbqLuv]

Don't discard banana peels, Make Banana peel Bacon

Amazing Vegan Bacon: How to Make Crispy Banana Peel Bacon in Minutes!

[BruceB]

Nope! No Way.

[bbqLuv]

BruceB You're not even going to give it a try?

[Oak Smoke]

Times aren’t bad enough right now for me to eat banana peels. They are one of the best garden fertilizers you can find. A friends wife buries their peels in her front flower beds. She has beautiful roses and that ground cover plant called chicks and hens was the thickest I’ve seen. I have an informal compost pile at the back of the property for all the leaves and grass clippings , that’s where mine would go.

[bbqLuv]

Oak Smoke "They call me Mellow Yellow".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74nJCrDtqWU

[texastweeter]

bbqLuv you beat me to it.

[Oak Smoke]

bbqLuv I hadn’t heard that song in many years. Thanks!

[RonB]

PM me your addy and I'll send mine to you.

[randy.56]

No way. I like banana's love beacon.

[smokenoob]

never take a banana or a peel on a boat!

[texastweeter]

Bad luck fo sho

[Huskee]

I'll try a different technique: go ahead and put posts anywhere, we will move them where they belong.

[texastweeter]

Sweet! Thanks for the notice! I have about 50 different random posts to post now...

[barelfly]

I use them in the flux capacitor….

[synodog]

Hate bananas so that’s a no go for banana bacon…

This reminds me of a Dead Milkmen song called Smokin Banana Peels.

[smokenoob]

bbqLuv please turn in your BBQ Card 😁

[J-Melt]

You lost me at vegan…

[bbqLuv]

I like vegans, cows are vegans, are they not?

[texastweeter]

https://youtu.be/2tq-JkWUbOk?si=sXYdSbLCjwILuE2w

[Johnny Booth]

They are great for Staghorn Ferns. Stuff them into the center. 👍

[acorgihouse]

No. However, like Johnny Booth and Oak Smoke said, great fertilizer. They have lot of minerals, especially potassium which encourages flowers and fruit. Well known around here about the staghorn ferns, I poke the peels down into mine. They are also great for the banana plant/tree. I have a Blue Java banana tree, it's a little hurricane worn right now, but normally has a chandelier of bananas hanging at any given time. I hate bananas, but like growing them, and the opossum Homer who lives in my backyard comes up to get one every evening. "They" say to just throw the peels back into the middle of the banana trunk cluster, I do, and the thing grows like wildfire. Whatever is left is compost. I'll stick with the real bacon, but thanks. Homer

[bbqLuv]

I see what you went and done did. You named him Homer, now his is a pet.
Have you never heard:
Don't make pets out of your food, or food out of your pets!

[acorgihouse]

bbqLuv Yeah, it's too late now. He was hanging around the first of the year, clearly a baby, drinking water from under the flower pots on the patio. I started putting him out a bowl of water, and every night around 8pm he came and had his water. One night he looked at me funny, so I gave him a banana. He ate it, kind of nodded, and left. The next night, he came back same time, drank his water, and sat there like he was waiting. Gave him another banana (I had a bunch on a tree at the time) and..

[Johnny Booth]

Possums are good for the yard. They eat a lot of bugs. I have never seen one take a banana or mangoe off the tree, but they do eat them on the ground. 👍

[Draznnl]

No thanks. Hate bananas and everything to do with them. No bananas allowed in this house…

except if the grandkids are visiting.

[ofelles]

Never tried to make bacon but decades ago I smoked them and not in a smoker ugh!! and no high

[Oak Smoke]

I can’t imagine smoking a banana peel. We used burning banana oil to check the fit of our Scot air packs in the oil field. If there was the slightest leak on your face mask you would cough your butt off.