🥩 Grassfed Beef Fat – Ready for Rendering into Tallow
This premium beef fat is carefully trimmed, cleaned, and ground in small batches. Perfect for DIY tallow rendering, it delivers a pure, clean fat ideal for high-heat cooking, skincare recipes, or traditional food preservation.
Sourced from the same high-quality grassfed beef you know and love right from local grassfed farm - the fats left from our ground sirloin, and steaks, this chunked fat is easy to work with—just heat gently to transform it into golden, shelf-stable tallow.
Packed By Idaho Meats in Burley Idaho.
✨ How to Render Beef Tallow
Rendering tallow is simple—here’s how to do it at home:
Prep Your Fat:
Keep cold until ready to use (cold fat is easier to handle).
Slowly Heat:
Place fat in a heavy-bottomed pot or slow cooker.
Set to low heat—do not rush it!
As it heats, fat will slowly melt and separate. Stir occasionally.
Strain & Store:
Once most fat has melted and bits have browned (2–4 hours), line a fine mesh strainer with cheesecloth.
Pour hot liquid fat carefully through the strainer into heat-safe jars.
Allow jars to cool fully before sealing.
Cool & Use:
Once cooled, tallow will become creamy white.
Store in the pantry (short-term) or refrigerator/freezer (longer-term).
🍳 What About the Crispy Bits Left Behind?
Don’t toss them! The flavorful beef cracklings (sometimes called “scraps” or “gribenes”) are delicious:
Season with salt and pepper while warm.
Use as a savory topping for salads or potatoes.
Mix into scrambled eggs.
Toss into tacos, burritos, or soups.
Combine with a bit of ground beef to create rich taco meat.
This way, nothing goes to waste—just old-fashioned nose-to-tail cooking.
✅ Product Highlights
100% Pure Beef Fat: No additives or preservatives—just clean, high-quality beef trimmings.
Perfect for Rendering: Pre-chunked for easy, even melting.
Versatile Uses: Cooking fat, baking, soap-making, skincare, and more.
Zero Waste: Use rendered tallow + leftover cracklings.
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