Making Tallow

[johnboy]

Hi,

Does anybody have any experience of making tallow?

My wifes uncle is a butcher and he reckons that Mutton fat makes better Tallow than beef fat.
The process I'm lead to understand is as follows.

1. Render down the fat from solid to liquid.

2. Purify the fat removing any nasty bits hair fibres ect

3. boil the fat to remove any water as this will make the fat turn rancid.

Hey presto Tallow.

The smell is supposed to be quite 'interesting'.

I wonder if anyone had tried this and if they could comment!

cheers

John

[chad234]

Karen Hood, wife of Widerness Instructor Dr. Ron Hood, has a video entitled Cave Cooking III Wherein the process of making tallow is described, as well as many other subjects.

www.survival.com

Chad

[ChrisKavanaugh]

I've never made tallow, but I have made up pemmican. This is meat dried to almost no percentile of water remains. Jerky has a relatively high content,hence its leathery flexible feel. The meat is then ground up and mixed back into clarified fat,oftentimes mixed with local berries. The resulting foodstuff was virtually impervious to degradation. I would only note to watch your temperatures. Burning the product or yourself is not recommended.

[sargey]

y'alright chad! fancy seeing you here!

cheers, and.

[Keith_Beef]

Hi,
..snip..
Hey presto Tallow.

The smell is supposed to be quite 'interesting'.

..snip..

John

Hmmm... I'll bet your neighbours will agree.

When I was a kid, my grandmother kept a tallow candle, that she would burn very occasionally as a cure for something or other (cold, cough, or something respiratory)...

But since tallow candles were no longer sold, and her candle was only about two and a half inches long, she was saving it for a real epidemic.


Keith.