Beef dripping

[jimdoesketo]

In the last 24 hours I have finally experienced the revelation that is using beef drippings for cooking. So far I have enjoyed roasted broccoli and eggs scrambled in beef dripping and it’s safe to say this has to be a staple fat for me now.

Does anyone have any UK experience to share on best sources for this type of fat, and maybe some other fats I can try that offer the same magic in terms of lifting the flavour of whatever you are cooking?

I can’t believe it’s taken me two years to finally try it but I suppose it’s that sub-conscious bias we’ve all been programmed with (saturated fat is bad etc)

[Shortstuff]

I buy blocks of beef dripping in Tesco for next to nothing

[MarkGossage]

I usually get these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooks-Co-Goose-Litre-Pack/dp/B0081G1PLS/ref=sr_1_1_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1522229152&sr=1-1&keywords=goose+fat
great stuff with little “taste” so works with anything… great for roast veg.

[Shortstuff]

I would struggle with this as I rescue and look after geese, swans, ducks etc… I know it’s a bit backwards in some ways as I eat other meat products, but I couldn’t eat my furry four-leggeds either…

[MarkGossage]

Oops sorry… !

[Shortstuff]

Your preference is your preference… just don’t ask me to…

[Duncan_K]

Wait, what? Why haven’t I tried this yet!? Off to the supermarket I go.

It’s only 70p for a 250g pack in Sainsburys

[matt]

Is this just the British name for tallow?

[Shortstuff]

Yes I believe so

[matt]

Cool. I use this one.

[jimdoesketo]

Is grass fed commanding a significant premium? No idea if the stuff I have is grass fed.

[matt]

It was not cheap but it was there so we bought it. It’s lasted a good while. Personally I don’t much care about grass fed. I would buy other tallow just the same.

[justatube]

Got a bunch of suet when I bough a quarter cow recently, ended up rendering it all down and making a beef short rib confit. Confit’d a roast too, which was good, but those ribs were fantastic.

[cywgdave]

Got a recipe or link to one by chance? We got a 1/2 grass fed cow with a bunch (9lbs) of suet. And I love beef ribs. Carl’s Pressure Cooker Beef ribs are currently my favorite but always up for something new.

Thanks

[runswithdogs]

Check with your local butcher/s.
My butcher gives me suet & pork fat whenever I want (need to email him ahead of time so he can put some aside for me) and I just render it myself. easy to do.
Also… get some good butter (I have a local dairy I get mine from) & make Gee!

[The_Keto_Cockney]

Check with your local butcher £2.75

[The_Keto_Cockney]

And I know this is a bit off topic, But I just found this in sainsbury’s. keep an eye on the price at the till as it was priced on the shelf @ £2.20 but when I got to the till it jumped to £2.45. It is lush.

[runswithdogs]

Yup, we got that one… plus …

And got this one for making ghee