2026-09-19 15:45 UTC
So I bought these Boulder Creek potato chips cooked in Beef Tallow.
Beef Tallow has been making a comeback as a cooking oil thanks to crackpots in the US government. I was also under the impression that it might taste good so when I saw this at Costco, I figured “why the hell not.”
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It was NASTY. Whatever I remember of stuff cooked in beef tallow, they had beef tallow in it as opposed to being cooked in it. Stuff cooked only in beef tallow tastes like rancid beef fat.
#rfkjr #brainworms
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@bryan@dusty.ninja 2026-09-20 06:30
@sysop408@sfba.social this same company makes avocado oil kettle chips and they are delicious. Sold at Whole Foods. No reason to get beef tallow versions. Beef tallow goes rancid very quickly and that’s why beef jerky is always very lean cuts or completely juiced with preservatives. I don’t know how McDonald’s did it (probably preservatives) but their fries were cooked in beef tallow through the 1980’s and they were great. Nowadays it’s vegetable oil and “beef flavor” derived from milk, wheat, and stonewalling from corporate. https://www.vrg.org/blog/2025/01/24/mcdonalds-french-fries-contain-a-milk-ingredient-natural-flavor/