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The price between soy and tallow narrowed in 2024 but there is a bigger problem with tallow - what to do with the waste grease? The rendering industry is in disarray. Back in the 1980's, we used to get paid by rendering companies to pick up our waste grease (each restaurant generates 2-3 50 gallon drums per week)
I knew a guy maybe 15 years ago who made a bunch of local deals to pick up their waste grease/oil. He converted both a VW bug and a truck to biodiesel and had a small building on his property where he did all of his filtering and clean oil holding. It was an interesting little setup.

Granted, at a large scale, that's a different situation but I'm still surprised there's not some type of market that has developed further since then at a more local level.

No idea if the guy still does it, but this post made me think of it.
 
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I knew a guy maybe 15 years ago who made a bunch of local deals to pick up their waste grease/oil. He converted both a VW bug and a truck to biodiesel and had a small building on his property where he did all of his filtering and clean oil holding. It was an interesting little setup.

Granted, at a large scale, that's a different situation but I'm still surprised there's not some type of market that has developed further since then at a more local level.

No idea if the guy still does it, but this post made me think of it.
I think every town has a grease/bio fuel guy. But only one
 

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British chef, Rick Stein stands by beef tallow, or dripping as it’s called in Oz, for the crispiest potato chips

My grandmother always rendered excess pork fat to use in cooking.
A favourite childhood rice dish was a tablespoon of freshly rendered lard, an egg, soy sauce and lots of white pepper all mixed up with a large scoop of steaming hot rice.
A scant teaspoon of Marmite or Bovril if you’re feeling flash 😋
We kept the lard when having a hog slaughtered. We gave some to my mother. My wife and mom liked it for making pie crusts.
 
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My Great x 4 Grandfather lived in Missouri or "New Spain" as they called it then. We have a copy of the list made of his "estate" after his death, and on it was 2 "barrels" of beef tallow. It was a valued commodity.

Apparently he owned property, and may have exchanged property, with Daniel Boone.

We also have some of his pay stubs, or some kind of record of payment anyway, for his service as a private in the Revolutionary War. He was paid 6 and 2/3 dollars per month.
 

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My Great x 4 Grandfather lived in Missouri or "New Spain" as they called it then. We have a copy of the list made of his "estate" after his death, and on it was 2 "barrels" of beef tallow. It was a valued commodity.

Apparently he owned property, and may have exchanged property, with Daniel Boone.

We also have some of his pay stubs, or some kind of record of payment anyway, for his service as a private in the Revolutionary War. He was paid 6 and 2/3 dollars per month.
Yes, it was New Spain back then. As a result of the French-Indian War, France transferred the land to Spain to keep the English from acquiring it as a war trophy. Once Napoleon conquered Spain, he transferred it back to France and sold it to America. Daniel Boone's house was not too far from where I grew up.
 
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but there is a bigger problem with tallow - what to do with the waste grease?
Not sure if this happens in the US but there is/was a company in Suffolk, UK that somehow made lipstick from all manner of used oils, fats, grease!

Waste not want not as they say but I wonder how many women know what they're putting on their lips.

Jay.
 

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Yes, it was New Spain back then. As a result of the French-Indian War, France transferred the land to Spain to keep the English from acquiring it as a war trophy. Once Napoleon conquered Spain, he transferred it back to France and sold it to America. Daniel Boone's house was not too far from where I grew up.

I have a now useless skill, of reading abstracts of title. The Missouri General Assembly passed a wise law about 25 years ago that effectively gives title insurance a monopoly and I was overjoyed to be able have a good reason to not read abstracts. It paid nothing much and stirred up much resentment.

But when I cleaned out my office there were about a half dozen or so abstracts my wife wanted to toss and I refused. I might want to read them again someday.:)

All Spanish and French land grants until 1803 were recognized, and still are.


Daniel Boone was sort of like Jesse James, he slept everywhere, and had countless homes.:)

Truth was Boone’s Missouri adventures were sort of disastrous. He nearly starved out and went home to Kentucky, but he left a trail of places that bear some kind of his name. He died of cholera, which generations of Missouri mothers to the present day use to forbid their children from drinking from streams.

My favorite place that links to Daniel Boone is where his sons found a salt lick.


At that historic site, there’s a memorial to a 16 year old kid buried that somehow fell in a caldron of boiling salt water and died a few days later.

I took all four of my children there, and would add to the story the father is buried over there in an unmarked grave where the boy’s mother put him, for not watching that kid.:)

Those people were absolutely, completely, and exactly like us,

They just wore a different style of clothing.
 
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