Food Tasted Better When Cooked In Lard

[Vette40th]

Been watching some shows on reverse searing, and many use Wagyu beef lard to cook.. I know that beef does taste good..
Rendering the fat is a thing many did, as it was normal part of cooking.
I am going to try this when I get home in a couple weeks.

[04 commemorative]

Worked the grill side of a Bar & Grill many years ago and all the fries were deep fried in lard

[Rob]

Originally Posted by PLRX

That's when life expectancy was around 35-40 years of age.

Wrong. My grandmother turned 104 this week and still cooks with lard as do I. I do not use margarine or other chemical crap.

I do not expect to live as long as her, but I do expect that I will live a good long life.

God is in charge. I am thankful for every day.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Rob

Wrong. My grandmother turned 104 this week and still cooks with lard as do I. I do not use margarine or other chemical crap.

I do not expect to live as long as her, but I do expect that I will live a good long life.

God is in charge. I am thankful for every day.

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[ZipZap]

I started making ghee a couple years ago and keeping it in a mayo jar. Always a treat to saute in that stuff.

Happen to see a show tonight where chef was making Yorkshire pudding. 1/2" of beef fat in the bottom of every hole in the pan and then just pour the batter in. Looked freaking great.

Animal fat rules

[NotSlo]

I save bacon fat and use it a lot. I also save the fat from briskets, wonderful stuff.

[CurtP]

Lard and tallow are always in the pantry. So is MSG. And you won't find an airfryer in this house either, but you will find several deep fryers.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by slewfoot

I wonder what they use in mess halls now? They would pour that shit on the grill and cook our eggs in it.

They use some crap that looks like melted butter but is about as fake as a
virtue signaling liberal

[Bill]

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[Tikiman]

There is one dish that I make occasionally that just isn't right if I do not use lard. And that is carnitas. They do not crisp up as nicely on the outside if I try using Crisco or other vegetable product.

[Vette40th]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

There is one dish that I make occasionally that just isn't right if I do not use lard. And that is carnitas. They do not crisp up as nicely on the outside if I try using Crisco or other vegetable product.

Carnitas are awesome. Very rarely, unless in San Diego, are they done right.

[Vette40th]

Besides rendering it from bacon etc, what are the brands you use?
For steaks I am going to start using the beef fat. and try one or two seared in butter too.

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

Carnitas are awesome. Very rarely, unless in San Diego, are they done right.

I use the recipe out of this cookbook. I find the recipes in this book to be more authentic than most other Mexican cookbooks.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

For steaks I am going to start using the beef fat. and try one or two seared in butter too.

Spend 30 minutes and a few bucks and make ghee out of that butter. Once you get the milk solids out of the butter it has a very high flash point and doesn't burn like straight butter. I no longer cook a steak any other way.

Get a cast iron skillet and heat it on a grill for 30 minutes. Drop in a couple tablespoons of ghee and then the steaks. If you have a stick or two of rosemary, you can throw that in too.

[theandies]

My food taste great cooking on my gas stove.

[slewfoot]

Thus came the term "Lard Ass."

[Dan Dlabay]

My mom use to keep a container of bacon grease in the refrigerator. That ended after my dad's open heart surgery in 93.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by theandies

My food taste great cooking on my gas stove.

"Not if we have our way!"

~Brandon regime

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by theandies

My food taste great cooking on my gas stove.

Well, you're not a child. If you were, you would be struck ill from the gas. Every good Democrat knows that!

[Bill]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

Well, you're not a child. If you were, you would be struck ill from the gas. Every good Democrat knows that!

Story time:

When Texas had our Winter storm power failure, a significant portion of the outages were due to cascading failure. Much of our power generation is via natural gas, and it used to be that transmission pipelines used natural gas fired compressor stations to move that gas. The environmentalists have been pushing the ppl companies to use electric powered compressors, because somehow it's more environmentally friendly to use electricity from a natural gas fired power plant than to just use the natural gas coming right to the compressor station to power the compressors.

So, when the power failures started occurring, some natural gas compressor stations went down because the electric went out, thus starving power plants of the fuel they needed to make electricity.

Since then, Texas has mitigated that risk somewhat by adding natural gas facilities to the list of critical infrastructure (like hospitals, fire departments, nursing homes, and prisons), that absolutely cannot be blacked out during a crisis. Of course, the obvious solution, going back to tried and true natural fas fired compressors.....nah, can't do that.