After watching that video of RFK Jr explaining how fast food restaurants used to cook fries in beef tallow but then switched to oils, I decided to give it a shot. I used to always use vegetable oil for the fries or a little butter to grill the burgers on a griddle. This time I finally caved in and bought a few gallons of beef tallow. Hoo boy, was it amazing. I'm NEVER going back to vegetable oil, I'll only cook fries in tallow from here on out. The burgers were also the best I've ever made.
I wonder, what are the health benefits of tallow? 🤔
It is kinda like when you cook your eggs just using the bacon drippings instead of oil, much better with the natural fat. Grams use to use Lard to cook with, I think that is same as Tallow but, pork fat instead of beef, beef sounds better to me though, I dont like pork lol.
I use REAL butter. It's good too!
I’ve used butter for twenty years….no margarine.
Yep. Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter. Only use Olive Oil and Avocado Oil in cooking too. We don't eat any fried except for fish and we use the Avocado Oil for that!
That and I also use coconut oil
oh, avocado oil with fish hrmmm, usually steam my fish but, a lil crisp from a fry or bake does sound good bout now lol.
I thought Kerrygold is not a safe alternative to butter? I think they said there were heavy metals found in Kerrygold's butter due to the foil wrapping they used?
I remember seeing that from a video someone either posted here or on Reddit... I'll go find it then I'll post it in a different comment.
OK I found the video I saw when it was posted a while ago, can't remember how long ago, but anyways the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmaqGrmA6gs
And while searching, I came across these articles:
https://www.mamavation.com/food/kerrygold-pure-irish-butter-wrapper-pfas-forever-chemical-lab-results.html
https://www.greenmatters.com/food/kerrygold-butter-recall
https://www.classaction.org/news/kerrygold-pure-irish-butter-contains-forever-chemicals-class-action-alleges
EDIT: Forgot to mention that it wasn't heavy metals I was originally thinking of, but PFAS, or better known as "Forever Chemicals" found in Kerrygold.
That's what I used to do, too. Till the price of butter went through the roof.
Yeah, I would imagine that if you got a large family to cook for, butter would not stick around long in fridge and it is pricy.
Yah, I usually cook with real butter but, it does not tolerate high temps like Lard or tallow. For the reg it is Butter or Olive oil, mom use to use that regular vegetable oil or butter. Though, like most people she started relying on Margarian too much. IMO Grams lard was the best lol.
In high temps I use Ghee.
You need to use butter from grassfed cows. Otherwise it's bad.
How is regular butter bad? I've read grass fed butter has higher nutrient and fatty acid content, but that doesn't make regular butter inherently bad. There was a new study released in March of this year that says eating less saturated fat doesn't lower a person's risk for heart disease.
Several cultures have been eating butter for thousands of years. Farmers started giving cows grains in the 1800's. If grain fed butter/milk was the problem, people would have been having cardiovascular issues back then, but it's become a more recent epidemic.
It's virtually impossible to find a specific passage in a 500 page book on Kindle and she cites a number of issues for everything she recommends. She didn't say butter was bad, it's on her list of good fats, she said grass fed is better. I suggest you read her book. It's very interesting. As far as grain feeding goes, even less than 100 years ago most people unless they lived in cities got milk from their own cows and they were grass fed. The cows on the farm my mother grew up on were and all the meat they ate was from animals raised on the farm. The cornmeal and wheat they ate was grown on the farm and taken to a nearby mill to be ground. I think about the only things they had store bought were sugar and coffee. Even the tobacco grandpa chewed came from his tobacco. Of course no one here is going to make you eat grass fed anything.
Bacon grease is AMAZING for cooking. Try pan frying a sandwich with a couple of dabs of bacon grease.
We cook with bacon grease and lard from hogs we raised on our farm. I'm very excited for RFK and Joel Salatin.
Excellent! I need to find a good source of real lard.
And yes, when I saw that Salatin was being brought into the Administration, I swear I almost cried a tear. Heal this land. Heal this people.
If you want real lard, ask places that butcher hogs and cattle etc. for it, its pretty cheap but you have to render it yourself.
Ask for "leaf lard" if you want it for baking as it comes from around the internal organs. It has zero "piggy" taste and is what bakers use. Same with beef tallow, ask for the fat around the internal organs.
Otherwise, all the other fat is excellent for cooking with.
They have it at Walmart below the Crisco……white tub with green lettering.
Mexican stores
I hear Chris Christie has some extra😂😂😂
Most grocery stores sell it on the same aisle as the vegetable oil. Usually bottom shelf, not at eye level so you won't see it unless you're looking for it.
Make animal fat Great again.
Make potato pancakes fried in bacon grease and sea salt to taste. Nothing better.
Ooh...
Oooooo! I'm gonna do that tomorrow for breakfast!
Yep. Good reminder to get a few large glass jars. Always keep the drippings. (Side note, you shouldn't be putting this down your drain anyway)
Liquid gold.
I have cooked with lard for some time now, if you are frying pork sausages and bacon it makes no sense at all to use oil
You use lard to fry bacon? You don't need to at all.
lol, think arty meant that, they use the fat drippings from the bacon and lard is from pork. Guess it is not hard to make never invested to try though.
Eggs fried in the bacon drippings..... damn! Now im hungry.
Lard is HIGH in vitamin D and has a really high smoke-point.
And a very mild taste too so, doesn't over power what ever your cooking.