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? 🤔
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.
Yep, I was going to write "leaf lard" but thought I would be a little too nerdy to do so. Glad there are others who know. :)
We call it kidney fat,ive used it forever in my deer burger mix,i get it from the abatory where they kill hogs on tuesday and cows on thursday,and if your old enough to remember back when french fries at hardees were absolutely the best they were limp and delicious and also the fried chicken at KFC ,what they called back then was extra crispy was fuckin delicious ,not like the fries today are inedible.
They have it at Walmart below the Crisco……white tub with green lettering.
That stuff is not 100% natural lard. It has been hydrogenated to a certain extent.
Read the back label!
Cool. I always just assume supermarket lard is hydrogenated. Will look for it.
Mexican stores
Generally all of that is hydrogenated. Noooo thanks.
I hear Chris Christie has some extra😂😂😂
With Christie, there is no such thing as "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.
I am in the UK and the lard we have is unadulterated, from what I can make out in this thread US lard is adulterated
Good. That sounded horrible. Bleah. LOL