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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Rendered beef fat is sold as Tallow in the US. Sadly its hard to find, and is pretty much only a mail-order product these days. Though I think any good butcher shop can at least sell people beef fat cuts.
Animal fat is primo #1 choice for any kind of cooking or frying. They tolerate temperature excellently, and taste delicious.
Remember, lard is pig fat, tallow is cattle fat. Both can be strained and reused a few times as well. People in the past wouldn't simply toss frying fat after every meal. Its how they afforded to cook deep fried all the time.
Do beware, many lards are sold party hydrogenated, this is scientific speak for "trans fats" which are toxic to humans. I only use the hydrogenated lard to season my cast iron.
Vegitable oils are all crap, and loaded with pesticides, and they taste thin and plany.
Also don't discount the humble butter, cooks well, and is generally cheap. I actually fry all my steaks and burgers in butter, using cast iron. Fantastic flavor.
And yes you are completely correct, there is a direct, inverse relationship between consumption of animal fats and insanity. Less animal fat you eat, the faster and harder you go insane, because as you mentioned, animals fats are ESSENTAL for brain health. Dr. Julia Ross actually covers this in her book about eating for mental health. As little as a serving of bacon can run away depression in about an hour in severely fat-deprived people.
We’re duck hunters in this house and use rendered duck fat to cook with. Nothing can compare, it is fantastic!
I roasted my first duck about a year ago and saved all the fat. Amazingly delicious bird! We do it at least twice a month. The fat is so versatile. Everything from eggs to veggies cooked in duck fat is delicious.
Yes! It’s good for EVERYTHING! We have a Blackstone and it’s a game changer.
What is a Blackstone?
This is correct.
If you have a good butcher and wanted to render tallow, it might be as simple as asking the butcher for fat scraps.
Vegetable and seed oils might as well be thought of as engine lubricants. Even if they were only pressed, filtered and bottled they aren't good. But then, the oils are boiled, bleached, chemically treated to remove flavors, boiled again, filtered and then bottled... because then they get 20% more oil from the same pile of seeds.
Beef, butter/ghee, duck fat, avocado, extra virgin olive, and coconut oils are best.