I forget which other poster told me about adding vinegar to the water I use when I get ready to deodorize a batch of tallow, but it worked!
I filled a large stainless stock pot about 1/4 full of water and enough vinegar to give it an odor, then drop a handful of gravel into the bottom, and begin melting the tallow at about 6 in the morning until it was level with the pot handles' rivets. Once the water started to bubble and steam up through the tallow, I turned the flame down between 1/2 and 1/3 and let it simmer in there, periodically adding water to keep it close to the original level, until about 8 at night, when the vinegar odor and the meaty smell of the tallow were gone. At that point, it smelled like ordinary candle wax.
I let the tallow cool overnight, and in the morning it was the whitest tallow I'd ever seen. I was easily able to spoon it into ice trays and freeze it into bars for soap making day. The last blobs of tallow to come out ofthe pot had little particles of carbon in them, but this tallow can always be added to the next batch.
I filled a large stainless stock pot about 1/4 full of water and enough vinegar to give it an odor, then drop a handful of gravel into the bottom, and begin melting the tallow at about 6 in the morning until it was level with the pot handles' rivets. Once the water started to bubble and steam up through the tallow, I turned the flame down between 1/2 and 1/3 and let it simmer in there, periodically adding water to keep it close to the original level, until about 8 at night, when the vinegar odor and the meaty smell of the tallow were gone. At that point, it smelled like ordinary candle wax.
I let the tallow cool overnight, and in the morning it was the whitest tallow I'd ever seen. I was easily able to spoon it into ice trays and freeze it into bars for soap making day. The last blobs of tallow to come out ofthe pot had little particles of carbon in them, but this tallow can always be added to the next batch.
