Bacon Fat
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How do you 'render' bacon fat? Question aside, I think it would just be a matter of cure time.
The color looks awfully dark for a triple rendered lard. I hope that's an artifact of the camera, not what it looks like in real life!
Next time, if you really want to get all the water out, heat the fat over medium-low direct heat until the melted fat starts to crackle. The sound is the water boiling and turning into steam. When the crackling largely stops, most of the water will be gone. I don't try to heat it until it's silent (especially if using it soon to make soap), but I suppose a person could. Just don't walk away while you're drying out the fat for safety's sake.
Rendering bacon fat is exactly like rendering pork fat straight from the hog. Pork fat can be rendered wet or dry, depending on the person's preference and on the cleanliness of the fat. Bacon fat needs to be wet rendered at least twice to remove color and odor.
Next time, if you really want to get all the water out, heat the fat over medium-low direct heat until the melted fat starts to crackle. The sound is the water boiling and turning into steam. When the crackling largely stops, most of the water will be gone. I don't try to heat it until it's silent (especially if using it soon to make soap), but I suppose a person could. Just don't walk away while you're drying out the fat for safety's sake.
Rendering bacon fat is exactly like rendering pork fat straight from the hog. Pork fat can be rendered wet or dry, depending on the person's preference and on the cleanliness of the fat. Bacon fat needs to be wet rendered at least twice to remove color and odor.
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This is bacon fat. We rendered it with water 3 times to clean it. I used similar before and the soap is great! I just realized it has some water left in it. And since I’ve learned more about making soap since that last batch I thought I’d check.
thank you!
