At 01:34 PM 01/19/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>What? Is this thing on? Hello!? No one seemed to want to answer about my
>beef fat question. So allow me to try it again. I was cooking my steak last
>night, a shame I know, I'd prefer it raw but it was store bought. After it
>was done, I noticed I had some fat in the pan. I poured the fat into a glass
>container to save it for future use, maybe pemmican. My wife freaked and
>said that it would spoil. She reminded me of the last time I hid the pan of
>ground beef fat and the smell it created. Not pleasant. So what's the deal?
>Can you not use this fat to make pemmican with?

        Try using a refrigerator unless you can eat it before it turns rancid.
Besides, if it didn't rot it wouldn't be worth eating.

Dr. Dave