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? 🤔
I live in Greece and just made 500 kg of natural olive oil from my own trees. I mostly use this oil for everything, but also butter and coconut oil. Beef tallow and lard is also good.
Few will ever know the religious experience of drinking freshly pressed OO...
It'll make your soul glow...
Some people drink this stuff? 👀
Olive oil? Sure!
Absolutely...
Drink...like a spoonful or 1/4 cup...NOT Big Gulp chugging...
Er, quibble.
"Beef tallow"
Is there any other form of tallow? I thought that "tallow" is by definition, beef fat, so "beef tallow" is a tautology. Like saying "wet rain".
or is 'tallow' used for other forms of fat, too? Maybe I just don't know.
from pigs is usually "lard"
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Its called Beef Dripping in the UK.
aha. Right.
Yes, probs in Australia too it used to be dripping. Praps lard was actually 'pork drippings'...?
You are correct sir,i use hog fat making pork sausage and kidney beef tallow for mixing deer burger but both are interchangeable and are delicious.
Afaik, tallow is beef, and lard is pork. Not sure if there are specific names in English for fats from other animals...
pig tallow beef lard
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Beef = tallow, pig = lard
Whale = blubber oO
Wow! How long did the process take?
you mean the mechanical pressing of my olive oil? It takes about 90 minutes. I always watch the process at the mill, so I know it is my charge and not another.
That's impressive. How long did it take to procure 500kg?
I did the harvesting on 5 days and each evening I went to the mill. I worked usually with 3 people. To the costs: The harvesting, milling and paying the workers and putting them into canisters of 5 liters cost me 5 Euro and 77 cents per kg. Side note: I pay the workers well. Pricewise I can never compete with Lidl and the big ones, but I have one of the best olive oil in the world, Kalamata olive oil made out of the koroneiki Olives. I sell to people who know my quality, in Switzerland mostly. These are people who have the money to buy the best olive oil.
Lucky you! Do you ship to America? Lol.