I have a fat question

[Dirtyhip]

So, can you save all the bits of fat, in a freezer bag, and then cook them down and skim for fat/oil for soap?

My friend told me that you need this specific type of fat for the soap.  She said you need a hard fat.  I have been using cocout oil, olive il, shae and crisco style oil.  You can use beef tallow.  I thought that beef tallow is made from all kinds of fats, and not this one fat that she told me about.  Shoot, let me text her and get what kind.   she  just told me that I needed. retro peritoneal fat

[maddmaxx ★]

I make soap

disappear.

Then I go to the store

and buy more.

[bikeman564™]

I was hoping this was a fat bike question

[Dirtyhip]

2 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

I was hoping this was a fat bike question

Fat biking is a fad.  

[UglyBob]

1 minute ago, Dirtyhip said:

Fat biking is a fad.  

Any time I ride I'm fat biking. Doesn't matter what size tires I'm on... 

[donkpow]

Is the quality of soap the issue?

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Yes, you can freeze fats for later use. I have some pork fat I’m saving for sausage makings. I want to get some leaf lard for pie dough making. It’s a pure pork fat from around the kidneys without the pork flavor. 

[Longjohn ★]

I thought this was going to be about good fats and bad fats in your diet, not your soap.

[Dirtyhip]

1 minute ago, donkpow said:

Is the quality of soap the issue?

Never had a problem, this is a concern in trying this though.  I am trying to make my own fat from the foods we have, instead of buying as much of it. Some of the recipes call for beef tallow.

[dinneR ★]

12 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

Fat biking is a fad.  

You're funny. 11 years and counting for this fatbiker. 

[Longjohn ★]

11 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

Never had a problem, this is a concern in trying this though.  I am trying to make my own fat from the foods we have, instead of buying as much of it. Some of the recipes call for beef tallow.

Didn’t you buy a half a cow for your freezer? Tell them you want the tallow too. Most people don’t want the tallow unless they are feeding birds.

[Dirtyhip]

2 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Didn’t you buy a half a cow for your freezer? Tell them you want the tallow too. Most people don’t want the tallow unless they are feeding birds.

Tallow is a processed item, I think.  They just give you chunks of cow.  Beef tallow is rendered fat, is it not?  The butcher does not render fat.  they just cut, grind and wrap the cow for you. 

[Digital_photog ★]

Get some goats.  My sister makes very nice soap from the fat in goats milk.  They will also furnish you meat, milk to drink, cook and make cheese and mow your lawn for you. No need for a gas mower.

[Dirtyhip]

Just now, Digital_photog said:

Get some goats.  My sister makes very nice soap from the fat in goats milk.  They will also furnish you meat, milk to drink, cook and make cheese and mow your lawn for you. No need for a gas mower.

i wish.  Don't really have the time for that.

[Digital_photog ★]

1 minute ago, Dirtyhip said:

i wish.  Don't really have the time for that.

Priorities.  Do you want to be a farmer or a schralper?

[Longjohn ★]

Well ask for the suet next time you buy a cow and render it yourself. That would be more fun anyway. Give that new stove something to do.

[Dirtyhip]

7 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Well ask for the suet next time you buy a cow and render it yourself. That would be more fun anyway. Give that new stove something to do.

I might do that outside on that camp stove.  

[Dirtyhip]

10 minutes ago, Digital_photog said:

Priorities.  Do you want to be a farmer or a schralper?

Right as I read this, I heard a chicken's egg song in the distance.  No kidding. 

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

1 hour ago, Dirtyhip said:

I am trying to make my own fat from the foods we have, instead of buying as much of it.

Buy mass quantities of bacon. Eat the bacon, save the fat, and forget about all the rendering beef fat stuff. 

Besides, what could be better than washing with bacon scented soap?

[Digital_photog ★]

Do you want some silkie chicks?   This morning our second hatch is starting in the incubator.