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.