I’m ashamed to say in the 10 years we’ve been raising cattle for beef, I’ve never asked for the fat to render from our processor. How wasteful! This year I did. I’ve never rendered down beef fat or pork lard so it was a new experience. I *think* it went well. I just crammed as much as I could into the crockpot. In trying to keep a low boil, I switched it back and forth from the low setting to the warm setting if it seemed to be boiling too fast. I let that go for over 24 hours, stirring slightly every few hours. The smell in the house was not great. 🤢 Maybe that’s a better task when I can open some windows? I did two batches which yielded a little less than 4 pints of creamy white goodness. I plan to use it to fry potatoes, but my husband is on a no candida diet right now so the potatoes will have to wait. I couldn’t quite get to all the fat, the last batch surrounded a bone that wouldn’t fit in my crockpot and I’d lost my steam at that point. It went to the dogs, who are both on a raw meat and bones diet. They devoured it happily. 🐾
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