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? 🤔
The natural oils are not loaded with Omega 3. Also, the seed oils are typically extracted at very high pressure and usually the process involves some chemicals you would not want in your body (benzene, etc.).
Meanwhile, your body has been eating tallow for 200,000 years, so it knows what to do with tallow.
P.S. If you think tallow is great for fries (IT IS), for Christmas buy yourself some duck fat and make fries with that. Stupendous.
EDIT: I should add that this year I found duck fat at Walmart. Blew my mind that Walmart has duck fat.
In the UK, we use duck or goose fat for our roast potatoes on our Christmas dinner, tastes amazing.