Making Tallow

[Caprock]

I wonder if diet has anything to do with it as deer that are fat on acorns here have a very orange-cast tallow. However, when rendered it is mostly white.

[powderburner]

Mke,
nosir it dont , just wondering if you had a candle mould

[Tom Herman]

Dipping is a much more laborious process than using a mold, although molds have their issues as well.
It's interesting that in England, there were two different guilds of Chandlers: One worked specifically with beeswax, while the other was confined to using tallow...

[Tom Herman]

Most of the molds we have are for large pillar candles, so I've done a fair amount of dipping here for the smaller ones.
I don't consider myself an expert or adept at it.
I wonder how Buffalo tallow soap would come out.
I'd be willing to make a batch of it (we just got done hosting a soap making class here. Been doing this for 20 years).

-Tom

[Kurt]

It's starting to take shape. rendered it twice now and the gelatin is getting less and it's getting hard and very good.
The way it is, it's good for lube. Slicker then snot on a door knob but it needs to be a little dryer so it will store with out refrigeration over a long period of time. I still have a little left from the batch I made two years ago that was very good.

[Dave Roelle]

Nice Kurt----------------i have cooked down whitetail fat in the past, its good stuff as well. Its amazing how long it keeps at room temp !!!!!

Keep on keepin on
Dave

[Ironramrod]

Kurt, What do you think your rendered buffalo fat cake weighs? Just curious, but it looks heavier than it probably really is. I have several lubes that I use rendered deer fat in, and I like the way they perform compared to the ones that don't have the deer fat in them. Deer that live around irrigated corn fields really can "pork up."

Regards
IR

[Gussy]

Kurt,
How did you get the fat?? Will the shop in Valentine set it aside for you? Sounds like something I'd like to do.

I'm still debating keeping the hide. No one locally wants to mess with it.

[Kurt]

Nice Kurt----------------i have cooked down whitetail fat in the past, its good stuff as well. Its amazing how long it keeps at room temp !!!!!

Keep on keepin on
Dave

Dave

If tallow is rendered out right it will last at room temp. I have bullet lubes I made many years ago, 20 plus years, and it is still good. I keep it in a old fridge along with my primers and welding rods . It is at outside temp. It just keeps the damp are off.
I also have some very old deer tallow, all kept at room temp. You make it right it will stay good.
I got some mutton tallow from Dixie once. this is something you just don't find at the local processors around here. That stuff was like a lard and it turned black before I got it all used up.

Kurt

[Dave Roelle]

Wow 20 years that's some kinda shelf life---------i have a friend that stopped by Dixie Gun Works and picked up some mutton tallow and sent some to me, i "re-refined" it just for safeties sake, it works really well on the occasion i shoot GG"s.

Seems the old materials still get the job done

Just about got the 44-90 up and running GG"s using the mutton tallow based lube !!!

Later Sir

Dave