The likelihood of me ever rendering beef fat is slim to none. Yet I watched from start to finish and never lost interest in this video. Meg just has an awesome way of explaining things. Great to see her have an entire video to herself tonight. Except of course Ben's brief cameo of Ben being Ben lol!

@erikas974

6 ай бұрын

Me too. I only "render" pig fat but that gets the crackling as you squash it out which we eat or bake in scones.

@susanw9630

6 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure you speak for most of us!

@emoure77

5 ай бұрын

Actually she makes it way to complicated and messy by not using a large mixing bowl to chill the tallow....comes completely out of the mixing bowl as a solid piece when chilled....

It’s wonderful seeing you use these old skills that are in danger of being lost, and preserving them in video format so current and future generations can retain these skills is such a blessing. Thank you!

I watched a video you did 6 years ago and WOW!!! I didn't recognize you two, it was about why you chose the homestead life style, such an amazing transformation. You 2 are rock stars. Love watching you, continue to do what you do. Blessings for your family and farm.

Meg, you should save your beef gelation to add to the bone broth you make. Or, you can freeze dry it to make your own beef bouillon for gravies & soups.

As a kid growing up in the UK in the 1950s the jelly was either used in stews or as a stock, it was also a staple spread on bread and a sprinkling of salt. nothing like bread and beef dripping 😊. Love the video's.

@IwaEiwa

6 ай бұрын

looking for this comment, saw the jelly and was thinking that that's the flavour for dripping sandwiches :)

@nonahammon1098

5 ай бұрын

Iu

Sooo cool and interesting. I'm the sober city girl who listens to y'all to help stay clean on sleepless nights. Congrats as well and thank you! Hugs from Cleveland ❤❤

@malina1239

6 ай бұрын

You are amazing girl , you did it!! 🥰 And watching the Hollars vlogs is well spent time! They have gotten me through some really hard times too They are informative , filled with positivity, love and compassion for each other , the land and the animals. A lovely family with great values and work ethics . That they also have fun and making jokes and puns , makes the vlogs even better❤ I’m cheering for you and for them! May this year be a wonderful one and give you courage and strength to face the challenges we all meet during a year . But I hope this will be a good one for us all🎉❤

@ljmike5519

6 ай бұрын

Congratulations. I'm proud of you and keep up the good work. Blessings

@werethewilsons

6 ай бұрын

@@ljmike5519 Blessings to you also...thank you!!🥰🥰

@werethewilsons

6 ай бұрын

@@malina1239 oh, and I'm here cheering for you, too, sis! We got this!!!

@werethewilsons

4 ай бұрын

@@malina1239 I love this comment, and I'm going to screen shot it and read it when I need a boost. I hope all amazing things for you-- big hugs from Cleveland ❤️

Pro tip on tallow. 1 Tbls salt, 4 cup water, grind tallow, mix in roaster, low heat to avoid scorching, strain into large stainless bowl, rest in cool location. Here's the best part, place a cutting board over bowl, flip over onto cutting board, place bowl and board in the sink, run warm water over the bowl..when the water splooshs out onto board, rinse the Puck of tallow with cold wster...reheat repeat

Very good teaching! I think anyone who is attempting to render their tallow would benefit by watching this.

Wow! Great job Meg , you work so hard on everything you do. ❤ You too Ben, I saw you still working on the beef in the background. What a feeling that must be to work so hard caring for the animals that feed your family.

Great job Meg! Thanks for taking us along for the ride. ❤

I’m so excited for the addition to your family. I hope you tell us the gender soon. I’m hoping for a girl so buggy has a sister, she has plenty of brothers 😂❤ love you guys and your channel. You and Ben are such a hard working couple. Your raising some great kids! ❤

@mawmaw1833

6 ай бұрын

Looks like butter😊

@mmurphy2317

6 ай бұрын

???👀🤔🫢🤭 Do Meg and Ben know?...

@claireskinner9077

6 ай бұрын

I don’t believe they found out with Buggy, but even if they do, they don’t owe us that information.

@pathoward5721

6 ай бұрын

I pray 🙏 a girl ❤ ❤❤ . SOUTH GEORGIA PEACH 🍑

@Julie-bq6iz

6 ай бұрын

How did I miss that announcement?🤔 I watch all the videos.

There is a woman from Ireland who renders a LOT of tallow on TikTok for soaps. I believe she adds some salt in when rendering and that also helps to draw out the impurities!

@TheHollarHomestead

6 ай бұрын

Good to know, thanks!

@katrinaavila3859

6 ай бұрын

@@TheHollarHomestead no problem! Love seeing all that you guys do!

You guys are awesome nice job Meg. Ben and the kids are truly blessed to have you.

I would say that most women will agree with this comment and most men will be surprised. One of the most attractive traits that melts a woman's heart is to be with a man who can make her laugh. Life can be hard but laughing together can get you through the worst. Loved the ending of this video.

Homesteading with the Zimmerman's is an amazing channel. Ruth Ann is knowledgeable on many topics.

Awesome job Meg. I didn’t know you could put water with the fat and clean it like you did. Like you said you showed how to render tallow from start to finish and it was so clean and smooth. Explaining step by step was very informative and helpful. Thanks for sharing . Oh, congratulations on the future a😊ddition to the family. I hope it’s a girl so Buggy will have someone to play with and do girly things together.9. Bye for now from Alabama. ❤

This is so timely for me, my husband took a steer to the processor yesterday, and I requested all of the fat(after watching your videos on processing your steer). Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us. Be blessed ❤

You are a very good and entertaining teacher.

Well you answered all ? I had, but I learned a major lessen! The reason I cook! The same passion I have, I can in your eyes. Thank you for one of the BEST food prep videos I've seen. I gotta ask, educated, self taught, or did someone influence you? Mine was my Mom. She was a proffesionaly trained German Chef and her signiture product was Gravy, Cakes, Pies & Pastry. Do tell .... I'm a 66 year old male and it took me 55 of those years to realize the kitchen should have been my home, instead I chose computer science! Thank you young Lady for bringing back my childhood. "avb"! ...... PS, Any one that asks -avb- = my intitials....I got bashed & quartered by comments by what it meant. Never the less, thank you for what you do! Al

This was fantasticly entertaining to watch! If you do candles I would love to see that process.

Beef scented soap might appeal to the guys!🤪♥️

@dicknijenhuis9894

6 ай бұрын

We might be tempted to eat it.

@jbfarm7735

6 ай бұрын

It doesn't. I have tallow balm that made me smell like a roast and it was nasty. Added in a bunch of lavender to help balance out the smell. Works great on heals. 😃

@villagesteader3552

6 ай бұрын

@@dicknijenhuis9894 😂

I'm getting ready to buy 1/2 cow in February and plan to render my tallow. Thanks for the tutorial on how to do this. Also, I just ordered the containers. I received an ice cream maker for Christmas and only have mason jars to store it in. These will be a much better solution!

Nice job!! Thanks for showing us this ❤

I know you put a lot of work into the video and I appreciated that thank you

Great job, Meg! Loving the content. Keep teaching.

It's always a pleasure watching Meg. She has such an easy, gentle way of explaining whatever she is doing. Taught me a lot. I will never have a homestead due to age and disability, so I have a garden and buy a lit of meat from local farmers. Your entire family are so encouraging and accomplished. Can't wait until May❤.

Dear Meg, Outstanding Meg, that process was so so interesting thank you & the Family for all y’all do!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Patricia

Awesome job on to tallow, looks good! I to watch the Zimmermens homestead and I have learned alot from her myself and loved her carmel popcorn that she made for Christmas so yummy. Again Meg awesome job and so worth it at the end.

Excellent info Meg!! Thank you so much for the full start to finish tutorial. ❤

Jai appris enormement comme toujours, merci Meg ❤

Excellent explanation and demo of how to render the fat for tallow! I'll be anxious to hear how much tallow you have upon completion of all the fat! Excellent tutorial, Meg!!!👍 After you washed it a couple times, it looked like big chunks of rich and beautiful butter after it cooled!!! Gorgeous tallow!

I’m so happy for the new addition coming I hope Buggy gets a Sister but I can’t wait for the surprise when the Baby is born God bless you and your family

Back in the uk some fish and chip shops would use animal fat to deep fry, they were the best fish and chips. Thank you for showing this, I’ve also made your sourdough. Wonderful.

Hope you take us along when you do the facial cream and soap if you do it!! Thanks for showing this process

Thanks Meg, you taught an old gal a new trick. Wish I knew about rendering the beef fat years ago. Although in the last year I've put water in with the bacon grease to get rid of the burn bits and have nice clean grease. You & Ben are good teachers never boring and always good to learn something new whether about meat processing, gardening, trees, soil etc. Blessings to you and the family. 😊🇺🇲

You guys are just the real homesteaders and Meg you’re incredible when it comes to canning and cooking, you guys are just the real thing. Thank you.

Hi Meg, Barry from the UK here, your Tallow, Fat or Lard, however you want to call it, in the UK we would call it Beef Dripping or Pure Beef Dripping, we also have Fat and Lard but this could be made from vegetables, or a mixture of other animal fats, the reason I am telling you this is because before My Wife (Florence (Flo) and I retired we owned and ran a Fish & Chip shop , Yep the good old British Chippy, the secret of good Fish & Chips as any good fryer will tell you is to only use Beef dripping, its very expensive but its the best frying medium without doubt, Oil might be cheaper and last longer, but the finished taste is nothing, compared to the taste of Beef Dripping fried Fish & chips, Happy New Year by the way to you all, we just love Buggy by the way she's so funny and happy.

Woman, Woman, Woman!!! Meg,You are awesome. That was a painstaking task,,,,,but what you get from it is wonderful. A little envious here, in a good way. Thanks very much for taking us step by step on this. Lovin that lard...sooooooo goooood.

Very much appreciate your effort in explaining the tallow process.

Really really REALLY love the kitchen videos, I always learn something new and get some great ideas. I love Ben and the boys and buggy is just the best, Meg, on the other hand is what holds it all together and keeps it running so smooth. Can't wait for the new addition, bless you all and keep you safe.

Great job! I have always wanted to render tallow for face cream and soap. Would love to see your process for that as well. Many blessings gs to your family and thank you for sharing life with us♥️

@tamramuse5136

6 ай бұрын

I would love a video on tallow face cream too

@jacquieanderson6251

6 ай бұрын

Me too

@CindieKristoff-dm2sw

6 ай бұрын

Me three! 😊

TIP: add clear water in after you strain it. It will give you a nice layer for when you separate it in the morning

Meg, you are a very hard working lady, and Thanks for your inspirational videos and sharing your knowledge 😊

Meg, this is a really good instructional video. Your hands must be in super soft condition after 3 days of handling tallow. What a joy to have that much tallow. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

Thanks for sharing Meg. You're an amazing Mum and awesome cook!

Love your episodes, would love to see more from you

Thanks Meg, we are a butchering a steer soon so this video will come in very handy. I have rendered lots of pork lard but always wanted to have tallow in my pantry also.

Thanks for showing the whole rendering process. Funny to see Ben in the background in his chair reading.

Tallow for 2024! I can see you doing all kinds of great things with this tallow. Your tallow looked beautiful. That color!

Fantastic tutorial; thanks for sharing! I’ll try the water washing next time I do beef tallow. Blessings to all 🤗💗🇨🇦

Omgoodness! Ben doing Jr. Birdman! 😂😂

What a great teaching video! I hope you rendered out enough clean tallow to do what you need with your face creams, etc. Y’all are so good at teaching us how to do so many things…you are a wealth of info! Thank you for taking your time to show us all the steps💜💜!

Beautiful sunset tonight.

Excellent video, very educational. Growing up we never did beef but did hogs. Mama had a huge iron kettle and lard was rendered outdoors over a fire. Slaughtering was always on Thanksgiving day and was the same for all the families in our area that slaughtered hogs. Not sure why, perhaps folks who worked on public jobs were off those days and could help and the weather was starting to get cold enough to avoid spoilage. My mother will be 100 in March and made biscuits as long ss her health permitted. In the last 20 or so years she'd say "I don't know why my biscuits don't taste as good as they did on the farm"? I told her well mama on the farm you had fresh lard, fresh cow's milk and homegrown wheat to make those biscuits, I think that probably makes a difference! Love you guys!

💚 Thank you, Meg! Such an interesting process and I appreciate seeing it from beginning to end. Beautiful product, courtesy of Beautiful Biscuit! 💚

That looks amazingly clean. Thank you for sharing!

What a very good tutorial Meg. I’m most impressed with your speaking skills. I remember in the beginning days you were more shy of the camera and now you’ve just taken charge. Excellent excellent job.👍🏼 Thank you!😊

Thank you so much I love your kitchen videos!! I've learned so many skills from you in the kitchen that would have been harder without your instruction. I just love everything you guys do and I'm so thankful I found you guys and all the other homesteaders I follow for all the different skills I'm learning.

So impressive Meg,that is good looking lard.👏👏

You need to write a book with recipes and homesteading skills like canning etc

Enjoyed this very much. Thank you Meg. ❤

Hi Meg, just wanted to know what you did with the fat pieces you strained off from the first boiling? Really really useful video, thank you so much for showing us the process!!

I’d love to try fresh beef tallow from grass finished beef. Can’t possibly be anything better!!! Thank you for your knowledge Meg.

The best mentor ever!!!! Thank you for sharing your tallow tips!!!

Such a great video thank you so much. Thank you for such a great explanation and the reasoning behind your process ❤❤

Great video! Awesome resource! Some friends do this. They keep some plain, some they mix garlic, and other culinary herbs with it snd put it into small jars to have with baguette for dinner. So good! Thank you for sharing your lives with us.

VERY interesting video! Thanks! Sending Blessings to all!

Thanks for the education. It really does help.

That was great info! I would feel totally confident trying that myself after watching this video.

I celebrate the end of my work day by clicking on your videos. Thank you! Rubbing in my tallow lotion as we speak!

Excellent vid/explanation Meg. Thank you

Meg you’re amazing! This was so interesting!

Great job Meg. Looks wonderful . GODBLESS you all

Mmmmm the smell of rendering home harvested beef fat...... success!😋👍🙌❤

Very informative! Thanks!

Thank you so much Meg.😊

OMG You are literally glowing Meg! You’re skin looks amazing!❤️

Thank you for taking the time to put this all in a video by itself.

Thanks, Meg😊❤

Excellent video Meg. You are great. I hope you get all the tallow done and into your freezer. Great work. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you sharing Meg I love watching & learning how you cook things

Awesome video! Very informative, and I appreciate that!

I recently rendered the trimmings from a whole ribeye I bought in my instapot. Actually, I'd planned on using it for suet blocks for the birds, but after reading about using it in cooking, I'm using it in the way. The best steak we've ever eaten are the ones we pan sear using this tallow in the skillet. Amazing! Congrats on the new baby and on getting Biscuit in the freezer.

Thanks for sharing the details of each step. I’ve heard it talked about but never shown. I found this to be very interesting and hope one day to actually do the same.

Thank you for showing us that process!!

Thanks Meg ❤

I am so glad that you did this! We have some tallow coming soon to render down.

I started Carnivore so I really needed to see this ...

A labour of love.... that's how I am with Tamarind seed prep. To get the pulp out of them is a hard job, but worth it. I like to watch Ruth too :)

Thank you for sharing great information. Blessings

My grandpa used a product called 'Teat Balm' that was made of tallow, for his dry hands. It came in square green tins and was originally used on milk cow teats to prevent mastitis and keep them from getting dry after cleaning them. He said before that he liked Sheep Dip, made of sheep tallow, but that product became extinct. It was good for keeping leather supple and clean as well. He worked in the butcher department of a small store.

@danielfawcett5107

6 ай бұрын

I believe it is called bag balm(it might be easier to find under that name if you are looking for it). We have a tin in the medicine cabinet.

Thank you for this AMAZING video!! Can't wait for the follow up on what you make with it all. I have been dabbling in make lotion bars, salves and face moisture with my tallow.

I do this method as well. But for the fat I put in 1/2 gallon jar with a couple cups of water. Put the lid on tight & turn upside down, once cool enough I put in the fridge & let the fat solidify. Take it out, turn it right side up & you can just pour the water out. You can usually tell how clean your tallow is once you dump the water out if the first layer of fat still has nasty stuff on it then it needs cleaning again, if it’s clean then you’re good. Usually it’s always at least a minimum of 2 cleans.

We have been doing this at my house too. Thanks for sharing another way to get this job done!

Arms - I'm watching - looking good!

Great video. Thank you for sharing the process, it seems a bit less daunting after watching you do it.

There’s no chance of me doing that but it was fascinating! Thanks, Meg! 🌻

Thank you Meg. Definitely helpful

Hey, in Turkiye, after straining they put tallow in a pot filled with water at the bottom, that way, those impurities go into the water and tallow sits on top. You get zero brown bits.

I love Ruth Zimmerman &&&& you Megan❤