Stellar - Beef Tallow - 100% Grass-Fed & Finished - Good for Cooking, Baking and Frying - Food Grade - 2 LBS

April 29, 2025I am sorry, Steller, I cannot recommend for popcorn. HOWEVER, everyone should try once as tastes vary.I recommend the tallow for anything you fry / pan-sear in . . . It excels when pan-searing a piece of lean meat or chicken in a cast-iron pan!TBH, I absolutely ADORE butter but eat too much of it. Tallow has made a wonderful substitution for cooking and I use much less of it than butter. A good-old-fashioned [turkey] bacon, eggs, and home-fries or hash browns is wonderful cooked in tallow. I must reduce fats in my diet, so this makes it taste so much better even though it is not cooked in butter.March 01, 2025. First Time User but not first time with Tallow or Lard. I will update as needed.First READ. All the 1-star ratings are not on point. It is tallow, not a non-stick chemical, it smells FAINTLY of beef like you just grilled a prime steak.The vendor uses ONE single-size bucket for its tallow. So, if you order the 2-pound or 3-pound, the bucket isn't full. Cost savings for the consumer. See photo of label on top.If you are expecting the Crisco-white - NO. This is not a chemical or hydronated oil. This is tallow, more white but just slightly on the yellow side. See photo. I think of white butter. It is pure.I moved most of the tallow into a jar so I could seal it tightly and keep it in the fridge. Just me.Last photo is a tablespoon of tallow in the pan -- clear as water.Now, taste. I cooked a salmon fillet in it. I could not taste the slight beef in the salmon; I smelled it as it was cooking. The salmon tasted just a bit better than using the olive oil or avocado oil. Please understand that tallow is pure fat, like butter. I found the taste exceptional. I plan to try cooking popcorn in it.Other opinions. My cats love salmon. They got downright RUDE over this salmon cooked in tallow. They and the dogs were having conniption fits over my food. I was beginning to think I would need to defend myself and my salmon physically.Some historical background. In WWII, women were pouring off and storing all rendered fat - pork, beef, and chicken - by pouring off into a can. They would use what they could, and then take the rest to a re-use point "for the troops". They taught this to their daughters in the 50's, and some of us grew up with the same in the 60s and 70s. Crisco came along and so many learned to cook with "shortening". Hydrogenated oils took over. (yuck)Crisco is a brand of shortening, primarily made from vegetable oils. Its main ingredient is soybean oil, which is partially hydrogenated to achieve a solid, creamy consistency at room temperature. Some formulations may also include palm oil or other vegetable oils, depending on the specific product (like the all-vegetable shortening version). The partial hydrogenation process introduces trans fats, though modern Crisco recipes have been reformulated to reduce or eliminate trans fats due to health concerns, replacing them with fully hydrogenated oils or other stabilizers.Additives like mono- and diglycerides (emulsifiers), salt (in salted varieties), and sometimes preservatives or flavorings may also be included. The exact composition can vary slightly by product line or country, but it’s fundamentally a processed fat designed for cooking and baking. Check the label of a specific Crisco product for the most precise ingredient list, as formulations evolve!

Hi quality tallow. No smell and creamy texture .Works well for cooking and skin care. Will buy again and again! 🐄

I will admit I didn’t read the information label on the lid before I opened the container. However, after I did I was pleased with the 2 pounds I ordered. The container is just large for the amount I ordered. After weighing the product I was surprised to see it was more than an ounce over weight. I am just starting to make face cream and soap. And when I need more I will return to this seller because they have clean and creamy tallow. Good quality(according to the wonderful women that is teaching me) this is a good healthy product.

Texture is silky, great value for the price, no taste, no smell, color is creamy white. I use it on my face straight or for making body butters.

All my food stuck to the pans when I used this product. It stuck to my stainless steel pan and my cast iron pan. When pans were cooled, they were sticky. I expected the Beef Tallow to be like Pork Lard. My stainless steel pan came clean after scrubbing with Bar Tenders Cleanser and a SS scouring pad. My Cast Iron pan had to be scoured and and seasoned. I waited for the pan to cool and it is still sticky. While looking for a different Beef Tallow Co. I noticed that some companies say NO SUGAR ADDED. This product does not have that statement, could that be the problem? I do not recommend this product.

this tallow is the best quality i have found for grass-fed and finished.... at all really.the consistency makes me think it must be whipped: unwhipped tallow separates into oil and solids that take about 10 seconds to melt on one's fingers (i use it for oil cleansing, along with cooking, as moisturizer, adding to beeswax candles, etc)i was going to start whipping it to make balms, and may still to fluff it up a little more.... but that's a little ambitious for someone with my executive function deficits 🤣 🤣 🤣anyway, it's real tallow; it's great quality and consistency; and it's actually easier to use for skincare than any other food grade, grass fed brand i know of.id give it more stars if i could because this saves me a TON of work now that I'm scaling up production to sell myself.ill def buy the 10 pound container if i succeed with marketing. the product will sell itself once people know about it, with the ingredients im adding 😉.

This gives food so much flavor and it seems to make food crisper. Before it gets cold strain it into a ceramic or metal container with an air tight lid and you can use it multiple times. It's pricey but it's really good. They say it can be used for other things but I can't help with that but frying with it is great.

Comes in a bucket which makes you think the bucket is full. It's not. By weight, it was correct though. I melted it all down an stored in smaller glass jars. The taste is not unpleasant but does take a second to get used to, especially if you're used to Crisco or Canola.