Question about deer tallow.

[BrownBear]

Volume here, too. I melt the tallow, measure it, and add the proportion of oil I want, and stir. Dump into the container of the moment and let it cool.

 

[rabjr]

Well it's all very scientific and complicated. :rotf:

Heres what I just used to mix my tallow. I took a 4oz plastic bottle and marked 4 one" marks on it. I used this to measure the tallow and the oil for each container. :haha:

 

[gmww]

I measure the temp. with my finger (jk). :rotf:

 

[rabjr]

Lol, just had about 20 more lbs delivered from a friend who butchered a couple. Guess I'll havta render it. :haha:

 

[gmww]

My goodness man with that much you could do all sorts of experiments with ratios. My last 2:1 batch that has been sitting in 19 degree F has gotten pretty hard. I'll be transferring one to the refrigerator to see how much it softens if at all.

 

[rabjr]

:haha: I still have 10 to 15 lbs of bear fat buried in the freezer some place I need to get to one these days.

 

[gmww]

The butcher I met told me to call him before next bear season and he hold the fat for me. I think I'm going to like using Bear. When you render bear do you get both tallow and oil?

 

[rabjr]

You let it set and if you did it right, the oil separates from the rendered fat. Both are actually good for lube, the oil is good for a number of things.

 

[rabjr]

Wow, I just rendered a bunch in record time lol. My buddy had put the fat through a coarse grind, looked like very fatty hamburg. I decided to start a kettle tonight and after 3 hours all I could spoon out was some meat particles, no sign whatever of any unrendered fat. I'll let it cool over night and see what I find but thats the way to do it, put it through a grinder before rendering. :thumbsup:

 

[Runner]

Boil it and let it cool. Scrape the jelly stuff off the bottom and do it again in clean water. Third time should just about do it. Heat it one last time and add ground pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and dried berries. Pour off and let solidify.
Best winter trail food going!

 

[rabjr]

Sorry but I'ant eatin deer tallow.

 

[Runner]

Was called pemmican in the day!

 

[rabjr]

gmww and anyone else interested this is what I woke up to this morning. Just under 5 lbs of rendered deer tallow that only took about 3 hours last night. Wish I realized putting it through a grinder would speed things up when I did the first batch which took the better part of 4 days to do lol.

 

[gmww]

Hey looks real good. Was your yield ratio the same as the first time? I didn't grind mine. Instead I just cut it up real small. I think I'd pass on the eating part of it.

 

[rabjr]

Hey looks real good. Was your yield ratio the same as the first time? I didn't grind mine. Instead I just cut it up real small. I think I'd pass on the eating part of it.

Absolutely! Before I had a lot of waste that was thrown away. Only thing that was strained last night was meat particles, no sign of any unrendered fat. I just checked todays kettle and it's the same, ready to strain off some pieces of meat and then let it set. The fat is totally liquidfied. :thumbsup:

 

[Roy]

Thats good to know... :thumbsup:

 

[uncrichie]

You guys that have extra tallow and don't know what to do with it, melt it put sunflower and some smaller seeds in it and when cooled hang the cakes in a tree for the winter birds to feast on. Uncrichie.

 

[rabjr]

And done! I ended up with 9 3/4 lbs from this batch. I wish now I had weighed it before rendering. My buddy just handed it to me saying it's about 15 lbs and he was just guessing. But I defiantly got more out of what I had doing it after it was put through a grinder and the whole thing only took about 6 hours to render. :thumbsup:

 

[rabjr]

You guys that have extra tallow and don't know what to do with it, melt it put sunflower and some smaller seeds in it and when cooled hang the cakes in a tree for the winter birds to feast on. Uncrichie.

The birds around here are very well taken cared for Uncrichie I assure you. :thumbsup:

 

[gmww]

I have a hand meat grinder so the initial process goes slow. I'm thinking I'll have to bread down and spend some money if I'm going to be doing a lot of tallow (deer, bear, and otherwise). I've also been doing a lot of home made sausage lately so I guess the electric grinder is next on my to buy list.