Saturday, April 30, 2011

Tallow Soap, Part 2

Here are a few pictures of the tallow rendering process. Not pretty. Uh-uh.

I started with a pot of beef fat, then ran it through the grinder (you get more fat out and it's much quicker this way). The last pic is all that I ended up throwing away out of about 24# of beef fat.








And, apparently, I'm going to be making my own lye as well. Seems that lye has been taken off shelves because it's used to make Crystal Meth. Hrmph. I'll be making my lye contraption thingy tomorrow.

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