What are you baking today (2025)?

[Barriehie]

Barriehie I'm down to 5 cans of lower sodium Spam®
HURUMPH!!!

I'm down to 19... When I get 8 I'll reup.

 

[Z-Cook]

Grits, scrambled eggs, tallow, cheese, green onions and low sodium Spam. Grits were cooked in bone broth.

Which part of the cooking do you use the tallow for? I'm guessing it's sheep or beef fat. Never seen it for sale so guessing you DIY?

 

[Barriehie]

Which part of the cooking do you use the tallow for? I'm guessing it's sheep or beef fat. Never seen it for sale so guessing you DIY?

Tallow is what's rendered from beef fat. There's a market a few miles away that sells blocks of it. They're shaped weird so I melt them and pour into quart containers for use. It looks like white butter and has a flavor that I appreciate. I've never seen it for sale until moving back here but there are -many- meat processing plants so there's an abundance of all things beef.

I use it to sear the Spam. The melting point is 480°F.

Tallow - Wikipedia

 

[Z-Cook]

Tallow is what's rendered from beef fat. There's a market a few miles away that sells blocks of it. They're shaped weird so I melt them and pour into quart containers for use. It looks like white butter and has a flavor that I appreciate. I've never seen it for sale until moving back here but there are -many- meat processing plants so there's an abundance of all things beef.

I use it to sear the Spam. The melting point is 480°F.

Tallow - Wikipedia

Ok. Aka beef dripping - considered by some to be the best fat to cook chips/fries in tho not the healthiest it would seem. Then again I'm a butter olive oil cook

 

[Morning Glory]

Ok. Aka beef dripping - considered by some to be the best fat to cook chips/fries in tho not the healthiest it would seem. Then again I'm a butter olive oil cook

I was going to add the same comment.

 

[Barriehie]

Ok. Aka beef dripping - considered by some to be the best fat to cook chips/fries in tho not the healthiest it would seem. Then again I'm a butter olive oil cook

I use all of them!

 

[Morning Glory]

Please note some interesting posts about the effect of altitude on baking have been moved to a new thread. Cooking at altitude

 

[SoCalZone10]

Ok. Aka beef dripping - considered by some to be the best fat to cook chips/fries in tho not the healthiest it would seem. Then again I'm a butter olive oil cook

I had some fish and chips fried in beef dripping in Durham years ago, before the pandemic, it’s fabulous.

 

[Barriehie]

Another bread pudding, mostly for the GG's...

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Just baked this vegan-friendly rustic almond and walnut cake (with some lemon zest)

 

[Barriehie]

Another bread pudding... I'm starting to do these like Puggles does pizza...

My first ever, it mostly worked, thin crust pizza. (Thank you TastyReuben.)

 

[Puggles]

Another bread pudding... I'm starting to do these like Puggles does pizza...View attachment 138434

My first ever, it mostly worked, thin crust pizza. (Thank you TastyReuben.)

I don't even like pizza. That's a vicious rumor.

 

[Puggles]

I had some fish and chips fried in beef dripping in Durham years ago, before the pandemic, it’s fabulous.

Fried in beef tallow. Oh man. I saw something once in a restaurant in New England that did clam chowder and served it with clam hushpuppies that were fried in a giant vat of pure beef tallow. That must be amazing. That fish and chips must have been legendary.

 

[Barriehie]

I love tallow! I buy blocks of it...

 

[Z-Cook]

It gets very solid on cooling, doesn't it?

I made up some overnight pizza dough last night. An old recipe revisted. Will see how it turns out.