# Beef Tallow

A recipe for making homemade beef tallow by rendering down beef fat and purifying it through multiple stages.

- Total time: 4320 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 20 pounds beef fat
- 1 cup water

## Instructions

1. Trim excess beef off the beef fat.
2. Cut the trimmed beef fat into smaller pieces.
3. Place the cut beef fat into an oven and render at 200°F for about 12 hours.
4. Stir the fat, then put it back into the oven to render for another 36 hours.
5. Remove the chunks of rendered fat using a spider strainer.
6. Strain the liquid fat through a fine mesh.
7. Pour the liquid fat into a bowl.
8. Add a cup of water to the fat in the bowl.
9. Place the bowl in the fridge to solidify.
10. Once solidified, cut the tallow into quarters and flip them over.
11. Scrape off any debris from the bottom of the solidified tallow.
12. Chunk the cleaned tallow into smaller pieces.
13. Boil the tallow with water and then scrape the bottom (repeat this step as many times as needed until the fat is clean).
14. The last step is to boil all of the water out of the tallow at 212°F, stirring continuously.
15. Once the bubbles disappear, the tallow is ready.
16. Pour the finished tallow into jars and let them solidify.

## Equipment

- knife
- cutting board
- oven
- large pot
- spider strainer
- fine mesh strainer
- large bowl
- jars
- thermometer

## Tips

- Trim as much excess beef off the fat as possible to get just fat.
- The rendering process can be repeated as many times as needed to get the whitest and cleanest fat.
- Continuously stir while boiling out the water to prevent popping.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/VGTKQKPVIBQ?si=YS-y-XA1p1q3sUsi
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/dd636356-1fc9-4390-b8ed-d5155e97304d
- Extracted: 2025-10-14

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