Do it with the fan on.

Forget your cold pressed olive oil, pay no mind to chunky blocks of Plugra and Lurpak. These days it’s all about homemade lard—time to fire up a pot and get rendering.

pork fat

ok. I use a lot of lard in cooking, most commonly in mexican stuff. So, I get it from my local latin butcher, where it sits on a shelf in a tub next to the chicharron from whence it was rendered. I like this lard because it has...

FYI, pork fat isn’t lard, which is rendered. Not sure what actual advantage you’re after, since plain old supermarket stuff works just fine for pastry. Most dud pastry results from improper handling and poor prep.

about it a long time ago... I rendered it and was left with a great bunch of white lard-like tallow. anyhow, since that time, I’ve been using it for a number of things. Frying potatoes (fries are good in it). And the best...

I have a lot of fat left over from a lightly cured supermarket ham that I’ve been eating around on, and rather than throwing it away like usual I’m wondering if it could be rendered and made good use of. How could one...

Hi, I was wondering if you could direct me to sources of rendered chicken fat. I do recall buying it solid in small plastic containers at the supermarket when I lived in DC, but I have not been able to locate anything in San...

Yep, the pure rendered fat is schmaltz. Schmalz is just German for lard, but of course when central european jews made it, they used birds instead of pigs for obvious reasons.

Thanks! Commercial drive is a great suggestion — can’t believe it didn’t occur to me. I haven’t tried T&T yet. I have see pork fat there but not rendered lard (granted I wasn’t looking for it at the...

any idea what they call leaf lard in spanish? In my mexican shops, all I ever see are the tubs of rendered lard, which are far runnier than leaf lard, or the hydrogenated bricks of lard. Is there a different name for leaf lard, so...

A lot of Mexican meat markets that make their own chicharron will sell you the lard rendered from the pork skin for a minimal price. Just ask since it’s not not visible.

. Or they might even sell freshly-rendered lard, too.

Sooo on a whim this weekend I bought a nice big hunk of leaf lard from the Wooly Pig stand in the farmers market, and thought it would be a fun experiment to render down some lard for use in...well, there lies the problem. I now...

flavor and isn’t terribly good for you. This is NOT what was used generations ago to create fantastic pie crusts. Freshly rendered lard has a much stronger and very noticable flavor. It makes a big difference. When I use it...