Rob,

I've tried to make pemmican from beef drippings and I had the same results
you did. I think the problem is that the heat used for cooking the meat is
too hot for the fat, so the pemmican tastes burned. I've gone back to using
fat trimmings and rendering them slowly. It's more time consuming, but I
usually render a bunch at once, it keeps for a long time, and the pemmican
tastes great.

Sam

>Has anyone ever made a bad batch of pemmican?
>I made one yesterday that was terrible.  I think it is because I used
>drippings from ground beef.  I usually get fat trimmings from my
>butcher, render, strain, and make pemmican.  Recently, I have been
>collecting my drippings from making hamburgers, meatballs, etc. (all
>paleo, of course)  The pemmican has an odor and taste it never has
>before.  I guess I'll go back to getting my fat from the butcher.