Tallow for dinner anyone?

There is a chap selling tallow candles on the bay in the uk who sells out door stuff like knives, camping goods etc, he says these tallow candles will stay alight for 10 hours and can also be used for cooking oil and if needed for survival eaten, so there we are, next time your off on a camping trip take a tallow based soap, you never know when you need more than a shave, and they are suitable for vegetarians

I'm pretty sure tallow is really bad for you if you eat it... like cancer bad, not just sick stomach bad.

Tallow is just rendered fat. A lot of people around the world cook with it. If eating fat causes cancer, at lot of people are doomed!

Before switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990, the McDonald's corporation cooked its french fries in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil.

taffy said:

and they are suitable for vegetarians

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uuummmmmm, no, it is not
(tallow is rendered animal fat)

rnfuller said:

Tallow is just rendered fat. A lot of people around the world cook with it. If eating fat causes cancer, at lot of people are doomed!

Before switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990, the McDonald's corporation cooked its french fries in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil.

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That's why McDonald's french fries USED to be SO good. The Chicken McNuggets used to be a lot better, too.

The white stuff in Oreo cookies used to be beef fat and sugar....

buddydog said:

The white stuff in Oreo cookies used to be beef fat and sugar....

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Wow!! Thats gonna freak my vegetarian daughter out big time. She loves Oreos! Although they may be ok now the fact that they used to be .........!

I don't think I'll tell her.

Haven't used tallow, but my biscuits use lard and maybe a touch of bacon grease.

buddydog said:

The white stuff in Oreo cookies used to be beef fat and sugar....

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I'd say it's a good thing this is no longer the case... otherwise some damn fool would try to lather and shave with it

oscarbowman said:

Wow!! Thats gonna freak my vegetarian daughter out big time. She loves Oreos! Although

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That's why Hydrox were always marketed as Oreos for vegetarians. Used vegetable fat instead of beet fat. They were even pareve (near kosher).

Jeff in Boston