Buji Kern <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Don wrote, re:tallow
>
>>Okay. Now where can I buy it? What type of store? What do I look up in the
>>yellow pages? I suppose one could just heat up fat scraps from the butcher.
>
>I get fat from "on the farm" butchers, and render it in a big pot. There is
>a long thread in the archives about rendering tallow for making pemmican.

The whole point of deep fat frying a piece of chicken is to make things
easy. I have no desire to render my own tallow in the quantity needed to
run a deep fat fryer. I will stick to what I can buy. This may mean coconut
oil, as I don't expect a problem getting this in quantity at an Asian market.

Don.