How to Make Beef Tallow
Learn how to make beef tallow! It’s extremely easy, stores for several months, and is super versatile. Use it for high heat cooking, stir-frying, sauteing, deep frying, roasting and for baking. It’s also used to season cast iron and for making soaps, lotions, candles, shaving cream and leather conditioners!
Beef tallow is rendered beef fat that can come from various fat sources from the cow, for example back fat or kidney fat (also called leaf fat, it’s the fat that surrounds the kidneys of the cow). Beef tallow that is made from back fat, as opposed to kidney fat, has a stronger flavor and is used more for savory applications like frying French fries and as a general substitute for oil or butter. Beef tallow made from kidney fat (the fat that surrounds the kidneys, also called leaf fat) has a milder flavor and so is better suited for sweet applications like pies, cakes, etc. When tallow is rendered it is a liquid and as it cools it hardens. Properly stored in a cool place it will keep for a few months.
- 3 pounds beef fat , trim off as much muscle/meat as you can