Organ meats get lumped together and they should not be. They cook differently, taste nothing like each other, and some are much easier to start with than others.
Tallow and Nutrition
Beef Tallow Roast Potatoes
Four ingredients. The step everyone skips is the one that makes the difference, and it takes thirty seconds.
Tallow and Nutrition
How to Cook Beef Heart
Heart confuses people because of where it sits in the animal. It is a muscle. It tastes like very lean beef and it cooks like it.
Tallow and Nutrition
How to Cook Beef Tongue
Tongue is the cut that turns people around on offal, and the method has one step that has to happen at exactly the right moment.
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Plain Whipped Tallow, for Skin
This is the unseasoned version. Same fat, same technique, nothing folded in at the end. People use it on skin, and the method is worth getting right.
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Stock, Broth and Bone Broth: What Is the Difference?
Three words used interchangeably on labels. Two have real definitions and the third is mostly a newer name for one of them.
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What Certifications Do and Do Not Tell You
We are not certified organic, and we are reasonably often asked why. The honest answer involves saying something slightly unpopular about certification.
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What Is GoldenWurst?
It is a name on a label, which means it tells you nothing by itself. Here is what is actually behind it.
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What to Do With Beef Kidney
Kidney is the one people try last, usually once. Done properly it is the backbone of a steak and kidney pie. Done carelessly it is unforgettable for the wrong reason.
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Whipped Tallow: A Bread Dip
Rendered tallow beaten until it holds air, seasoned, and served with warm bread. The whole trick is the temperature you start whipping at.
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How Is Beef Tallow Made, and How to Store It
Rendering tallow is one of the few kitchen processes where doing almost nothing is the technique. Low heat, a long time, and patience. Rush it and you get something brown that tastes of the pan.
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How to Cook Beef Liver
Liver has a reputation built almost entirely on bad versions of it. Cooked gray all the way through it is dry and metallic.
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How to Cook With Beef Tallow, Including Frying
Tallow behaves like a neutral oil with a better crust and a faint beefiness that suits almost everything savory.
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Nose-to-Tail Beef: Using More of the Animal
A beef animal yields far more than the handful of cuts people name at a counter.
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Organic, Non-GMO and Natural Meat Labels Explained
Natural is the word people trust most and it is the one that tells you least about how an animal lived.
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Pasture-Raised vs Grass-Fed vs Grass-Finished Beef
These three terms get used as if they were interchangeable and they are not. The useful distinction is not how an animal started, because almost all of them start the same way.
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What Does Clean Label Mean for Meat?
Clean label is not a regulated term and nobody audits it, which makes it either meaningless or useful depending entirely on who is using it.
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What Is Beef Tallow? Rendered Beef Fat, Explained
Beef tallow is rendered beef fat, and very little else.
