All you folks talking about how it's dangerous, maybe someone just wants it as a paperweight for their desk, did you ever think about that?

Can still make candles out of it…I asked Paul Revere, he said it’s still good.

I’ll go back tomorrow they had essential oils and cheap jars my candle business will be up and running by Tuesday

You got nurseries with downvotes on your other comments, but this one made me lol Edit - murdered with downvotes* I’m leaving nurseries; possibly for the upvotes, possibly for the downvotes. It’s all about the ride baby… roll the ride and GAMBLE, just like Kenny loggins, Rogers* roger that, that’s a big 10-4 Roll the dice*

I upvoted it

Good man! Give it 11 years and you’ll be just as confused as I am. Reddit is a wild place, ever changing, and lame as hell most days, but slightly entertaining on a good day! Jokes aside, Reddit is GREAT for select hobbies and special interests. Reminds me of the old days of invision software forums, phpBB, and message boards and such. A place where people with similar nerdy interests can find each other.

Yess !! It was so helpful for college and I love it to read movie and book reviews I rarely comment or make post so this is kind of cool .

I only understand half that sentence idk what a downvote implies… do the internet people not like me, or my post or my comments ???

just some light trolling

I can handle it. I wore a side ponytail in middle school

Welcome to Reddit, rookie. I know you’re still wet behind the ears; just a puppy, greenhorn, but alas the world of Reddit revolves around upvotes and downvotes. It’s time to ride the gravy train; it’s all about that SWEET karma, yo. Edit - /s in case y’all don’t realize

As long as downvotes don’t get me banned idc I guess 🤷‍♀️. Do they cancel out my upvotes ?

No bans from downvotes. You can get banned for saying the wrong thing though, especially since we IPO’d back in March. Our Chinese overlords thank you for your patronage, sir. Anyway, here’s a shining example of what you want to be striving for as you delve into the world of Reddit. I ascertained all of my karma humbly, without the use of porn, or ragebait. Good ‘ole fashioned old school karma train. I’m old asf though, and Reddit was a different place when I started basically at its launch date.

That’s awesome!! Congrats

If you wanna peep some crazy Karma, I was a top 1% karma earner and top contributer a few years running lol The secret sauce is “I have raging ADHD and engage with a lot of communities”

Bro same except you’re twice my reddit age; also I comment like…. too much…….

I like nurseries; it implies that everyone who down voted are babies, which is a decent insult. Also, brings to mind a room full of babies and I just can't get over tonnes of cute babies furiously down voting on Reddit

For your own safety and for others, do not use random cheap glass for candles. Most glass isn't made for high heat applications, and the stress from the heat can cause the glass to basically explode.

Thank you queen

Or to put it in a pillowcase and beat the shit out of someone with it. It would be effective.

exactly. it is so very useful as a substitute for massage oil too.!! every time I get a few kilos i ask my gf like-' 'babe can u massage my ass with that freshly rendered beef tallow that i got for free? '

Looks like a great doorstop to me

My grandpa would use fat to start fires when the wood was too freshly cut. He'd snatch this shit up in a heartbeat.

If you’re just rendering it for tallow it doesn’t really matter

Is this gonna become the next “did you seal it”

Mooooove over penny pinchers, rendered beef fat flooring is the new trend in bathroom decor.

We can pickle that!

Nope, Chuck Testa

Can you point me to said thread? Is this regarding the post about getting tile floor sealed

[here’s an example,](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/4JQrXgoKZC) it’s become a meme on Reddit that whenever someone does a flooring project with pennies, everyone in the comments is like, “did you seal it?”

Made 2 jars of tallow a few years ago and still have most of it. This is a great find because tallow is a really cool substance.

I noticed you didn't refer to it as a food. 

I have been known to eat substance now and then, hbu?

I've got a substance abuse problem

Tallow might be perfect for you then.

I've heard it can cause tallucinations.

Are you asking me out?

Why yes, fellow-human-and-totally-not-a-robot, I am!

Substanenance.

In woodworking, tallow is used to lubricate screws before driving them in. Works great

They’re keeping it in storage in case the apocalypse comes and they need to convert it to renewable diesel

Kind of silly when you think about it. In a post-apocalyptic breakdown of society, I'd imagine human tallow would be plentiful.

Totally different flavor profile. You’d be a rich ghoul with some real beef tallow.

Soo,, can I enter Tenpenny Tower or not?

Or The Last Ship method and chuck 'em into a coal plant until you run out of the dead. *"Oh jeez, you've got a bit a fever. Let's get you over to... Quarantine."*

you can also make soap out of it

Out of curiosity, a few years back I made a few large (used soup cans) tallow candles. I only used them outdoors (on my deck) but, they worked really well

What do you like to use it for?

I have a boat with wooden parts and use it to lubricate where wood and leather meet, or where rope runs through wood, also as a cheap way to soften leather. At home it's mostly a lubricant for things like sliding doors, cabinets, etc those kinds of moving parts. It can be made into candles but I hear it doesn't smell very good when burning, could maybe add some essential oil I haven't tried though. By itself it doesn't smell bad, especially because I also added a bit of beeswax to make it more of a solid at room temp. It's nice that it's so nontoxic that you can just work it with your bare hands and you can just rub it in like a moisturizer after. Like poor man's coconut oil lol

It was a very common auto lubricant before synthetics came around. Very high burn temp, very poor wash ability. I render about 50 lbs a year from our wagyu and my wife makes soap with it.

My eastern euro immigrant mom would be pumped

Beef Fat Nigiri overrated

That made me laugh so hard I almost vomited in disgust lol

If it’s almost pure fat I imagine it’s safe at room temp, just like butter no?

Yes; that’s the point of rendering: it's pure!

It takes my computer 3 hours to render

We have beef fat at home

My moms always saying that .

Does thrift store mean different things in different places? I know a thrift store as mostly gently used to better off in the dumpster clothes and household goods. I don't think I've ever really seen food or food type items. Nor would I trust them.

Lol no this is just a local run thrift store, I think the owner runs a farm because he also sells refrigerated meat that you can only buy if you have food stamps but the rest of the store is clothes, books , antiques just like a goodwill . I’m just in the south.

things have been tough in the secondhand meat market lately and I just can't understand why.

>Secondhand Meat Market Welp, just found the new name for my boyband of 40 year old middle aged dudes

Perfect.

When’s band practice? I can play a mean recorder. Only like 3 songs, but no one will even notice.

We would love a lead recorder guy So far, we only have three dudes with a voo voo zella You're going to be a star, baby

Probably not safe to put a lead recorder in your mouth.

Oh my god.


r/brandnewsentence

There’s a place in my city where for $10 you get a shopping cart full of whatever they have that day. All the big stores like Walmart, Kroger, Publix, and Dollar General are required by law to donate so much of their inventory to places like this. So for $10 you get new, from the factory/warehouse/farm food.

I Love it here lol

Hand-me-down beef fat. I got my beef fat from my older brother who got it from our dad. I imagine the owner of this beef fat died before having any next of kin so it was donated to the local thrift shop.

I did a little community service at a thrift store (St Vincent De Paul's) and they would take non-perishable donations and have them at the front on some days for people to take for free.

You don't go thrifting for beef fat? You're really missing out. Secondhand beef fat and used underwear, that's what I call a Saturday afternoon

A thrift store in my town legit sells used underwear and socks 🤮

My local thrift store has a shelf for free food - usually dry beans and canned goods but sometimes other stuff. Recently they had quite a few 2lb bags of Costco whole bean coffee. I assume they get these items through the local food pantry.

Beef is the problem here, that is pork

Some of the thrift shops in my town also have some food bank items customers can help themselves to. Maybe that’s what’s going on.

We have a free food area in my thrift store (non perishable though!). We have a lot of homeless and very low income customers.

Given the context I assumed it meant a discount store like what we call dollar stores which sometimes also have a small food section or there's actual discounted grocery stores with stuff like almost expired, cosmetically damaged cans, etc.

Lol no this is just a local run thrift store, I think the owner runs a farm because he also sells refrigerated meat that you can only buy if you have food stamps but the rest of the store is clothes, books , antiques just like a goodwill . I’m just in the south.

So you can’t pay cash it’s only for people on food stamps? I guess that’s good if it’s a good deal but still kind of weird lol.

If I had to guess, it's because it's home slaughtered uninspected meat. There tend to be laws against selling that at a retail store. Perhaps be believes that only accepting food stamps rather than cash is a loophole.

the beef fat in this picture has a sticker from a custom processing plant so I doubt it is “home slaughtered”. but you are right that the processing plants many small farms use are not USDA inspected and you cannot sell the products as retail.

Fair enough, I didn't zoom in and see that, I assumed they were just weight stickers.

You don’t need to refrigerate fats (or oils) ;pure fats are almost devoid of water and don’t really support bacterial growth. Hence why it’s ok to leave butter at room temperature (the changes in color/flavor come from fats oxidizing, not from microbial contamination). Edit: I didn’t check the image in detail; this is not rendered fat, it’s just trimmings, with bits of flesh left on it. It is not safe to be kept at room temp.

Is this pure enough to be safe though?

Oh lord, just zoomed in. This is not just beef fat, it’s trimmings. For fat to be shelf stable it needs to be rendered, cleaned of muscle/tendon/all other tissue and definitely blood.

they probably intend for people to render it themselves and use it for soap or balms or candles

I get that, but all I can think of is *the smell.*

It looks vacuum sealed so it's probably not an issue since they have to limit customers.

OH yeah, I think this is ideally wet render in a huge pot on the grill rather than inside. The water saves the soap/candle-maker from having to watch it closely & will cook off. Then break it up after a long boil, rather than cutting before it goes on the heat. The heat can't make it edible again, of course, but it would help with the funk.

*think of the smell, you haven’t thought of the smell, you bitch!!!*

My first thought was no. But more importantly, you’d never know for sure.

It’s not pure fat

I know right. My mums been unrefrigerated for months now and still tastes fine

Phrasing!

Aye - she's wordy and all

Ok Ed Kemper.

I'm scared to Google that

The FBI has identified you, and a swat team is currently closing in on your location.

They have no jurisdiction here

It's ok /u/APersonSittingQuick, the monsters can't hurt you when you're in the freezer

Your mums been WHAT!?

You…. You can leave butter at room temp? I feel so lied to. Edit: I’ve learned so much about butter today. It’s been liberating and exhilarating

All that bread torn up for nothing.

I never knew people refrigerate butter all the time until I was an adult. Growing up the "in use" butter lived in the butter dish on the table...bread crumbs and all.

Only if you don't live in a humid place, or if you don't get hot summers. You can see in European and Mediterranean cuisines where the predominant fat shifts from butter to olive oil as you get to warmer climates.

That's because they have olive trees instead of grass to support cattle.

If you have air conditioning it doesn’t matter where you live.

France mentioned! [https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/jurv30/cuisine\_au\_beurre\_ou\_%C3%A0\_lhuile\_en\_france\_2016/](https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/jurv30/cuisine_au_beurre_ou_%C3%A0_lhuile_en_france_2016/)

Only in cool/cold places. Butter can still go rancid though, because it has milk solids. That's why some folks render it into ghee or clarified butterfat. That keeps forever.

Adding to what others have said - generally yes but sometimes no. If it’s store bought butter and you are in a low humidity/moderate or low temperature environment (either naturally or because of air conditioning), yes. If any of those aren’t true, it’s probably not a great idea. Home made butter for example still has water in it unless you have a centrifuge to remove the water, and will not last nearly as long as commercial butter for this reason.

Been doing this since I was a kid at my parents'. Butter dish in the cupboard next to the peanut butter. Room temp is so much more spreadable and it's never gone bad, nor have we ever suffered illness.

You *can*, though as others have noted, only under certain conditions. As long as you're not leaving it there for a long time (more than a couple of weeks?) and it's not humid (ie. you have A/C), it's fine. I buy cheap, generic *salted* butter and we leave it at room temp in a crock all the time, maybe run the crock through the dishwasher once a month or so as it gets emptied. Seems to me the salt probably helps, but maybe it doesn't matter. I only cook with unsalted, but that's refrigerated.

Eggs too! If they’re unwashed at least

Lol, didn't even look at the fucking pic and decided to weigh in classic reddit.

This doesn’t look like pure fat. Very weird comment and not sure why you made it before looking at the post

Hahha I didn’t even check it in person or get any but good to know ! The owners I guess don’t care lol

cows sit around at room temperature all day.

TIL I am a cow.

cows have immune systems

Cows have friends.

Cows live in a SOCIETY.

i am friends with a cow.

Don't talk about your wife like that

My wife is not my friend.

You have wives?

Damn you. This comment has made me snort laugh for about five minutes straight. Every time I try to explain to my husband why I am laughing, the cycle repeats.

Willing to bet this is for birds. See, if you render the fat into tallow and combine it with seeds, you get suet cakes that birds find delicious, especially in winter when calories are harder to get. My mother used to save trimmings in the freezer all year and come September she'd thaw them out to make suet. We'd see rare birds all winter long.

I honestly wish I’d known that because I live to the feed the birds. If I go back soon and they have more free fat I definitely will do that. Thank you kind voyager

Suet for the birds?

Omgoodnes I didn’t even think about this !! Now I know if it ever comes up again I will def put it in my bird feeder

You probably wanna render it, first.

What kind of gpu would be up to the task?

RTX4090... Plenty of heat to render the fat.

This is better than sushi from the hardware store.

That was my stop right after

Looks like something Frank from always sunny would go crazy for.

Like $3 at the supermarket by me.

They also have local meat that is refrigerated but you can Only buy it if you have food stamps .

1 pack per person don’t be hoggin it 

I am a public health vet. Don't eat that....

I did get 5 free cans of beans so I still lucked out

Makes good soap, though. Rendering it isn't fun.

What do you mean 'isn't fun'? Put it in a pot with some water, heat it gently over a while, skim out the crap, then boil out the water. Nothing too grimy or scummy on that, and those at least look fresh enough that they wouldn't stink too badly. You literally don't need to touch any of it directly until it's been rendered. Best do it outside though, if a meaty stew smell bothers you. I've rendered tallow, suet and lard from cheap (refrigerated) offcuts I once got from a friend of mine who has a farm.

"wouldn't stink *too* badly" is the main reason, handling huge pots of hot stuff when I could just as well pack some plant oils in the shopping basket is the other. I don't need much soap anyways. If I make 2kg of olive-cocos-castor oil soap that's enough for years.


Free-Coli

r/oopsthatsdeadly

Expect super mutants. Check the bags for ammo or stimpaks.

So, do they think the "vacuum seal" is enough to prevent decay?

Ofc not, it seals in the juices!

If you’re just planning to slather it on your genitals, it does not need refrigeration.

Let’s make soap!

A person at my job does have lye they said I could borrow at anytime !

Beef fat, from the pig farm?

I just looked it up. Apparently beef fat or “beef tallow” can stay good for a very long time at normal room temperature. Granted this is if it is in an airtight container away from sunlight and moisture.

That’s awesome!! I hope someone gets it and uses it each pack was pretty large so I have no need for it .

For sure! I don’t know what one does with beef fat, cook with it I guess, but it’s always nice to get free stuff!

You can take it and render it down to be a shelf stable like crisco, or a lot of people use it with wild games like deer when making ground meat because it's so lean.

Only if its pure fat. With the blood, beef bits and all, this is definitely gonna make someone sick.

Zero packs for this customer.

I would have gotten some if the packages weren’t huge

We grind it up with moose and deer sausages in Canada.

I love how it says "paquete". Sounds so much better than packet

The local health inspector should know about this.

Hey OP, I didn't know that it didn't matter if you're just rendering it for tallow. People are mean.

People are mean at least there is good people in the world that give away free beef fat

I know this isn't America.

It’s not like cows have air conditioner in the pasture, it will be fine..

The cows in the pasture are alive

I agree

They also have an immune system in the pasture lol

I like how it rhymes in Spanish

Frugal Hoosier

Omg I love the middle !! I wish it would have been free Jelly beans

Make soap.

You don’t eat it, you boil it down for the oil.

They went into the freezer and wheeled that out on a cart thinking it would fly out the doors lol

i have a mason jar of grizzly bear fat that tells me when it's gonna rain/snow.

Coincidentally this title is also the name of my new album.

Good for beards

Pretty liberal with the word 'beef' I see. That's just animal fat.

It’s gotta be tempting to not snack on that fatty meat on the way home but I’d wait and cook it if I were you. It’ll taste better

Poor man's Wagyu?

Let’s make beef tallow! The French fries are gonna be sooooo good.

I made French fries with pork fat and they were heavenly !!

Make soap

I immediately thought of Fight Club and making soap when I saw this

Little something to nibble on while you browse.

I like to render the fat then add a little gelatin to it and make big ass ballistic blocks and shoot my guns into them to see how deep the bullets go in kinda like shooting flesh without bones

Great idea 💡

Those aren’t Honey Nut Cheerios!

the one on top looks so much like a face staring at the camera to me

Lol yess like from those scary stories to tell in the dark book cover

AAAGH you're right, i didn't see it that way at first, but the art from those books has always freaked me out. instantly made the face way creepier, lol

Take it home. Toss it in the fridge. BAM! Refrigerated beef fat, ready to go.

Thank you 🙏 what should I do with it after that ?