Odorless Tallow the EASY Way! How to Purify Tallow Without Burning!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2023
- Hey friends, I hope you try this method of purifying your tallow or lard! The basic ratios are as follows:
- 1 cup tallow or lard
- 1 tsp salt or baking soda
- 2 cups water
Allow everything to simmer on low for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Allow to set in the fridge for 5 hours or overnight, then pop the 'fat cap' off and scrape the side with the impurities off. Repeat the entire process until there are no visual impurities or odors in your tallow. Then use as desired!
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I have a tip you may like. After going onto the jar turn your jar upside down in the fridge with water. Leave enough for a small air pocket. Once cooled the water will be “on top” with the impurities, dump water, scrape impurities off and BAM! Jar of tallow free from impurities.
Thanks for commenting! What you described sounds like the first step in this process, which is to separate the fat from the water/gelatin/large impurities. This is just fine if it will be for cooking purposes. But I personally like to take it a step further by cleaning with salt or baking soda to ensure there is no residual smell or other impurities. Thanks for watching!
That’s genius!
@@thealfordhomestead5191 right… this just helps it stay where you want it and if any impurities get in there somehow it will always be on top, and you can scrape it off when used next, if any at all.
Best video on that topic. And ive been watching plenty. Thank you❤
Thank you for the wonderful comment!
Thank you! Clear and to the point! Excellent video
Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful!
Just stumbled on your channel, great topics, thanks for the content ❤
Welcome! Thank you for joining me :)
Will so try it now and will come back. Please giv a thumb or reply so I can find this again :)
Let me know how it turned out! Thanks for watching :)
hey did you do it? how did it turn out?
Super video 😀
Thank you! Thanks for watching :)
Great explanation - thanks very much! I'm currently saving the fat I pour off from ground beef and will clean it like you show in this video to make soap and maybe balm. Have you ever done something similar? Also, it's not grass-fed so I wonder if it would be OK to use in a leave-on product. Thanks again.
Yes, I often have free fat trimmings that I will clean in order to make soap and balms! It has worked beautifully as a 100% tallow soap! Tallow itself makes a wonderful moisturizer as well. I do not worry about it being grass-fed or not; if it's good enough for me to eat, then it's good enough to put on my skin! Besides, many skin care products are full of harmful ingredients that are probably worse than whatever would be found in the tallow, in my humble opinion. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@@thealfordhomestead5191 Thanks very much for your reply! Good point about if it's good enough to eat it's good enough to put on the skin.
You're welcome!
@@thealfordhomestead5191 What I'm referring to is the fat I pour off when I fry the ground beef. Is that what you mean by "free fat trimmings"? Thanks
Yes, I do this method with both the fat poured off the cooked beef as well as the hard uncooked fat trimmings I get from the butcher. Oftentimes you can get them for free from the butcher. They are both excellent for making soaps etc! @@elainem7722
This is great! I bought 2 jars of epic tallow that where below normal quality, so I did your method and it made the smell and the color much better! What can I do with lard, I see this company Fallow so there must be a way..............
Wonderful! I'm so glad it worked out for you! I often make 100% tallow soap or make tallow balm (I have a video on this). It's a wonderful ingredient for sure however you use it. Thanks for commenting!
#tmcook6161 - I do the same steps for Lard.. I May do it a few more times if necessary... gl.
Great work! We'd love to know the shelf life of your tallow with this method. Another method recommends reboiling the tallow then pouring out while avoiding the water at the bottom. Have you tried this method and is the shelf stability any different?
In the freezer it should last at least a year! I like to keep about a 3 month supply out at a time; in my experience it will last 3-6 months at room temp. I have done this method as well and it does not appear to make much of a difference, but this was just my own experience! Thanks for commenting!
@thealfordhomestead5191 Thanks for the response! Currently giving this method a go. It seems much easier than reboiling. Thanks for sharing😄
Thanks for trying it out! I'm so glad it's working out for you as well :) @@najma2613
Three to six months? I have tallow that I rendered FOUR YEARS ago; I stored it in the dark in food-grade airtight plastic tubs under the laundry sink. It is (as far as I can tell) exactly the same now as when I made it. Hint: I used the sous-vide method of rendering, in plastic bags at minimum heat (under 90 deg. Celsius) and filtered it three times.
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So interesting
Thanks for watching!
Dr Berg talked about this and you had a shorter video on how to fo it. Question,does the meat have to be grass fed?
Oh, interesting! No it does not; the end product will still result in a wonderful tallow with multiple uses. Thanks for watching!
Grass fed and grassed finished is a better quality product. ❤
Once purified and dried can I store this in the fridge until I am ready to use it in my lotions and balms? I live in a hot climate.
Absolutely! I often do this if I know I won't need it for another 6 months or so. Thanks for watching!
do we have to use salt or baking soda? wouldnt that be bad for your skin?
Salt or baking soda help to draw out the impurities. If you were to use just water, the larger impurities would probably come out, but there would still remain much of the smaller, hard to see impurities. The salt won't be in the purified tallow, it ends up mostly in the water, so no it will not be bad for your skin.
Thanks for watching!
Wonder if you could use some magnesium like epsom salts for purifying? (I think they’re similarish?)
That's a great idea! I don't see why it wouldn't work just as well. Thanks for commenting! @@sevillianc
Can you still cook with this after all that refining?
Actually it's even more ideal for cooking now that there are no impurities in it because these impurities are easy to burn while cooking. The smell and taste of your food would be for the worse because of this. So I definitely recommend 'refining' the oil. Thanks for your question!
I wonder if refining removes some of the goodness from the tallow???
Great question! Tallow is very stable even at high heats. Tallow has a very high smoke point, meaning it takes a very high degree of heat at long durations of cooking before it starts to degrade. So perhaps there is a very small amount of degrading, but it's a negligible amount with it simmering in water this way. Thanks for watching!
Hi, i burnt my tallow, is it unusable? Can i fix it ? Does it have any pirpose or do i have to bin it
I have repurposed burned tallow in my soaps. Otherwise, I would try and find some other way to repurpose the oil like greasing up your tools or something! So sorry that it happened though! Did you follow the method in my video or was it already burned?
@@thealfordhomestead5191 no i burned it, then started looking for tallow videos and came across yours. I just binned it. Waste of time and money, idk it got burned
aww I'm sorry to hear that happened! It's happened to me too. Try out the water method next time and let me know how it goes!
wait, so when I cook ground beef, I can turn the fat into TALLOW?!
indeed! Thanks for watching!
Couldn't you just melt it without the water and strain through cheese cloth?
Unfortunately, no. Just melting and straining would not get any smell out and furthermore, will only get very large particles out of the tallow but leave all the smaller bits behind. This method properly cleans all the small particles out and leaves little to no scent behind. Thanks for watching and commenting!
This sounds like a four day process though, it can be way easier.
Thanks for watching!
How do you do yours?
Huh!?