I'm new to hunting deer. Got a deer this past Sunday evening and I'd like to try making ground venison burgers. I read the Deer Burger post and learned that adding say, 2lbs of bacon to 8lbs of ground venison makes good burgers. It seemed that incorporating the bacon fat was the point of adding the bacon.
My wife always saves the bacon grease so we've always got a surplus of rendered bacon grease in the fridge. Is adding this to ground venison a decent substitute to the actual non-rendered bacon fat you get with adding fresh bacon? Or will it all melt out when on the fire and totally not going to work out?