Where do you buy lard?

[isabchi]

I have not idea where buy lard. Maybe, I blind when i shop at the supermarket.LOL

[gen24]

You can probably find some if you go on eatwild.com

[weliveintheforest]

If you have a european deli in your neighbourhood they likely have it there too.

[cristeen]

Most supermarket lard is partially hydrogenated - but it's generally with the Mexican/Hispanic foods. I get it directly from my butcher, or there's another butcher I can go to to pick up pig skin (with the fat attached) and render it myself.

Also, if you have a Mexican bodega or deli near you that makes their own carnitas or chicharrones, you can ask them if they sell their lard - since both of those dishes create large quantities of it.

[isabchi]

Thank you very much for the tips...

[PaulaJoAnne]

[QUOTE=cristeen;14303020]Most supermarket lard is partially hydrogenated - QUOTE]

That, and its been bleached as well.
Never mind that it comes from feed lot animals
Real grassfed lard/beef tallow, is yellow.

[Holiztic]

[QUOTE=PaulaJoAnne;14309421]

Originally Posted by cristeen

Most supermarket lard is partially hydrogenated - QUOTE]

That, and its been bleached as well.
Never mind that it comes from feed lot animals
Real grassfed lard/beef tallow, is yellow.

Are you totally sure on this? Our lard comes straight from an amish farm that is all about grass-feeding and totally WAPF/TF. The lard is white. But pigs eat a lot that is not grass!!

[PaulaJoAnne]

[QUOTE=Holiztic;14309662]

Originally Posted by PaulaJoAnne

Are you totally sure on this? Our lard comes straight from an amish farm that is all about grass-feeding and totally WAPF/TF. The lard is white. But pigs eat a lot that is not grass!!

Our bear lard, and the grassfed beef lard and tallow we have, a very yellow.
Pigs will be a different story, as they do have a different diet for sure
They are rooters, no doubt about it!

You can see the same thing with eggs. Chickens that get to eat all the greens they want, will have orange yolks, but grain fed will have pale yellow yolks.

[Holiztic]

I'm sorry, I thought the word "lard" only referred to pigs!! Opps!

[isabchi]

[QUOTE=PaulaJoAnne;14309920]

Originally Posted by Holiztic

Our bear lard, and the grassfed beef lard and tallow we have, a very yellow.
Pigs will be a different story, as they do have a different diet for sure
They are rooters, no doubt about it!

You can see the same thing with eggs. Chickens that get to eat all the greens they want, will have orange yolks, but grain fed will have pale yellow yolks.

Good to know!.... I think We have to put ourselves to looking a good sources of lard...

[Holiztic]

okay, so i just opened the beef "lard" (tallow, right?) from US WEllness Meats (grassland beef) which is quite serious about ALL grass-fed, and it was white.

I know olive oil can turn whiter when cold, could that be it?

[PaulaJoAnne]

Originally Posted by Holiztic

okay, so i just opened the beef "lard" (tallow, right?) from US WEllness Meats (grassland beef) which is quite serious about ALL grass-fed, and it was white.

I know olive oil can turn whiter when cold, could that be it?

Tallow is white. I just worded my previous post wrong.
Its what candles used to be made from, on the farm.
The other fat on the cow, lard, is yellow.

[Holiztic]

Ok, please help me PaulaJoAnne, you seem to be the queen of lard (oh, that doesn't sound good!!)

Please define lard and tallow for me!!

I though that lard was rendered pig fat and tallow was rendered beef fat. Is this too simple?

[graceomalley]

Originally Posted by Holiztic

I though that lard was rendered pig fat and tallow was rendered beef fat.

You're right. Lard is rendered pig fat and tallow is rendered beef fat .

ETA: Sometimes people refer to sheep or vegetable tallow but most of the time it's just beef.

[Carliegirl]

I'm with ya....that's what I thought the words meant too...now I'm confused! Tell us more!

[PaulaJoAnne]

Originally Posted by graceomalley

You're right. Lard is rendered pig fat and tallow is rendered beef fat .

ETA: Sometimes people refer to sheep or vegetable tallow but most of the time it's just beef.

Lard and tallow can be on the same animal.
I grew up with raising/hunting, sluaghtering all our own meat, is the only reason I know.
Tallow is the hard fat, it will actually flake and crumble when raw. It does not have any tissue holding it together, hence you get a higher return when you render it.
This is also the reason it is used to make candles.
Fat, is soft and has lots of tissue holding it together, and you will get "chitlins" when you render it.

So, if you were to butcher a deer, most of what you would find is tallow.

As to how you use them, Tallow is best for deep frying, as it will give you a crispness that lard cannot.
Oh, and it will stay hard at room tempature, whereas lard will become liquid.

[BedHead]

I am really confused also. Lard, according to every source I've ever seen or talked to, is pig fat. Tallow is what you get when you render fat from other animals. Anyway, that's how I use the terms because that's what everyone seems to understand.

[henny penny]

Originally Posted by BedHead

I am really confused also. Lard, according to every source I've ever seen or talked to, is pig fat. Tallow is what you get when you render fat from other animals. Anyway, that's how I use the terms because that's what everyone seems to understand.

:
To answer the op, supermarket lard is usually poor quality, rancid, hydrogenated, bleached, from unhappy grain lot animals; best avoided. We get our pig fat from a pasture farmer and render it ourselves. Try the farmer's market for local, grassfed fat and meat products.

[dogmom327]

Lard: www.thunderinghooves.net They do ship but I don't know what it costs. The lard itself is $2 lb. and when I render it I get about 3 pint jars out of 4 lbs. (they are fairly local to me and have drop point close to my house but otherwise shipping my be prohibitive)

Tallow: www.uswellnessmeats.com Five gallon bucket for $100. Already rendered.

[crunchy_mama]

aha- finally found it on the us wellness site. I might be buying that when the coconut oil runs out for my high-heat cooking. That is a good price, especially considering they dont' have a shipping charge.