How To Use Suet And Tallow

Suet and tallow are fats used to cook and bake with. These fats are age-old cooking gems. Tallow is still a good and healthy choice for candles, soaps, lotions, moisturizers, lip balms, hair care products, gun oil, waterproofing, making leather softer, and bird suet squares. Suet and tallow can be stored in your refrigerator or freezer for two years. Although, it is best to use the suet and tallow within one year to take advantage of its full flavor. 

Suet and tallow became less popular with vegetable oil. Vegetable oil was touted to be a healthier alternative to tallow. Studies touted that the manufactured oils were healthier than pure animal fat. Recent studies have shown that tallow is one of the more beneficial fats to consume.  

What is Suet? 

Suet is the hard, often crumbly, interior cavity fat around the kidneys and loins. 

It's an excellent source of pure animal fat and has a variety of uses outside of being a healthy and hearty source of fat in your diet. You can render suet into beef tallow or use pieces of suet to melt in a pan, providing a Wagyu beef flavor to your favorite ingredients.

Suet is loaded with vitamins and essential fatty acids—making it irresistibly soft and crumbly. Its higher levels of stearin also give it a high smoke and burning point, making it a great alternative to vegetable oils or butter.  

Suet is an excellent alternative for feeding the birds in the winter or any time of the year. 

What is Tallow?

Tallow is suet that is rendered down to a liquid that returns to a solid after it cools down. Tallow shares the same health benefits as suet. Tallow is just easier to cook with. See our recipe at Rendering Suet - Premium Dakota Beef on rendering your suet down to tallow. 

Tallow is a healthier option for cooking, deep frying, baking, searing, smoking, and homemade health products. Tallow is beneficial for our hormones, brain, skin, gut, and overall health. 

When a recipe calls for lard, try using tallow. Tallow has a similar consistency to butter. Tallow will give your pastries that flaky and fluffy quality. Leave tallow at room temperature to make it soft and easy to work with. 

Tallow is the best-kept secret to enhance any dish. Its high smoke point, around 400 degrees, is perfect for deep frying, searing, and sauteing meats. Chefs use tallows to make a statement dish. Tallow helps lock in the flavor, giving you a tender, mouthwatering steak. If you would like to try more of a traditional fat to cook with, tallow is the way to go.

Try using tallow when making steaks and burgers. Are you into smoking your favorite meats? Try using Wagyu tallow to enhance the flavor of your meat.  

Where can you purchase suet? 

Wagyu Suet - Premium Dakota Beef

Premium Dakota Beef provides 100% pure Wagyu Suet. If you are looking for 100% pure Wagyu suet, Premium Dakota Beef suet is the way to go. 

Wagyu is a Japanese cattle breed whose genetic lineage goes back thousands of years, while the importation of Wagyu into the US only recently began. Wagyu beef is famous for its copious marbling, leading to unparalleled buttery tenderness. The fat marbling in Wagyu beef has the highest percentage of mono-unsaturated fat out of any protein you can find in the US.

Premium Dakota Beef is raised on our family farm in South Dakota. We hand-select our beef for processing to ensure the best quality beef for our customers from our farm to your table. Our beef is processed at a family-owned butcher shop that is USDA certified.

Sources:

Butchering Beef by Adam Danforth

Wagyu Beef Tallow (2023) | All You Ever Wanted To Know (couchpotatodelivery.com)

(378) 12 Reasons Why You Should Eat SATURATED Animal Fat - YouTube

(378) Beef Tallow Benefits | THE IDEAL HEALTHY FAT & TRADITIONAL COOKING ESSENTIAL | Bumblebee Apothecary - YouTube

This Is How Crisco Is Really Made (mashed.com)

Suet and tallow have been used for centuries. Tallow is still used for healthy versions of candles, soaps, lotions, moisturizers, lip balms, hair care products, gun oil, waterproofing, making leather softer and bird suet squares. Suet and tallow can both be stored in your refrigerator or freezer for two years. Although, it is best to use the suet and tallow within one year to take advantage of the full flavor it provides. 

Suet and tallow became less popular with vegetable oil. Vegetable oil was touted to be a healthier alternative to tallow. Studies touted that the manufactured oils were healthier than pure animal fat.  Recent studies have shown that tallow is one of the healthier fats to consume.  

What is Suet? 

Suet is the hard, often crumbly, interior cavity fat that sits around the kidneys and loins. 

It's an excellent source of pure animal fat and has a variety of uses outside of being a healthy and a hearty source of fat in your diet. You can render suet into beef tallow, or simply use pieces of suet to melt in a pan, providing a Wagyu beef flavor to your favorite ingredients.

Suet is loaded with vitamins and essential fatty acids—making it irresistibly soft and crumbly. Its higher levels of stearin also give it a high smoke and burning point, making it a great alternative to vegetable oils or butter.  

Suet is a great alternative for feeding the birds in the winter or anytime of the year. 

What is Tallow?

Tallow is suet that has been rendered down to a liquid that returns to a solid after it cools down. Tallow shares the same healthy benefits as suet. Tallow is just easier to cook with.  See our recipe at Rendering Suet - Premium Dakota Beef on how to render your suet down to tallow. 

Tallow is a healthier option to use for cooking, deep frying, baking, searing, smoking, and homemade health products. Tallow is healthy for our hormones, brain, skin, gut, and our overall health. 

When a recipe calls for lard try using tallow. Tallow has a similar consistency to butter. Tallow will give your pastries that flaky and fluffy quality.  Leave tallow out at room temperature to make it soft and easy to work with. 

Tallow is the best kept secret to enhance any dish. With its high smoke point, around 400 degrees, it is perfect for deep frying, searing, and sauteing meats. Chefs use tallow to make a statement dish. Tallow helps lock in the flavor, furthermore, giving you a tender, mouthwatering steak. If you would like to try more of a traditional fat to cook with tallow is the way to go.

Try using tallow when making steaks and burgers.  Are you into smoking your favorite meats? Try using Wagyu tallow to enhance the flavor of your meat.  

Where can you purchase Suet? 

Wagyu Suet - Premium Dakota Beef

Premium Dakota Beef provides 100% pure Wagyu Suet. If you are looking for 100% pure Wagyu suet, Premium Dakota Beef suet is the way to go. 

Wagyu is Japanese cattle breed whose genetic lineage goes back thousands of years, while the importation of Wagyu into the US only recently began. Wagyu beef is famous for its copious marbling, leading to unparalleled buttery tenderness. The fat marbling in Wagyu beef has the highest percentage of any mono-unsaturated fat out of any protein that you can find in the US.

Premium Dakota Beef is raised on our family farm in South Dakota. We hand select our beef for processing to ensure the best quality beef for our customers from our farm to your table. Our beef is processed at a family-owned butcher shop that is USDA certified.

Sources:

Butchering Beef by Adam Danforth

Wagyu Beef Tallow (2023) | All You Ever Wanted To Know (couchpotatodelivery.com)

(378) 12 Reasons Why You Should Eat SATURATED Animal Fat - YouTube

(378) Beef Tallow Benefits | THE IDEAL HEALTHY FAT & TRADITIONAL COOKING ESSENTIAL | Bumblebee Apothecary - YouTube

This Is How Crisco Is Really Made (mashed.com)