Continue Rendering and Add More Fat (if needed)

inside where that fat comes out of that's where the fat that's around the kidneys that's what we're using um inside there there's a membrane we want to get that membrane off and cook this up and once these little fat cubes shrink up that's what makes cracklings and cracklings are delicious little snacks they're low-carb snacks and they're great in cornbread too so if you've ever had cornbread with cracklins in it it's good stuff i'll tell you that so we're gonna work on this this is country living right here man let's start her up i will caution you don't fill your pot too full okay so we're gonna add to this pot this is only half of the lard okay so we're gonna be adding to this pot as we go so we're going to cut up the rest of it put it in smaller pots and bring it out here and add to it as we go so we'll need a good spatula or a flat tipped spoon for stirring we'll need a ladle so that we can dip this out and pour it into our jars and we're going to let the jars just cool naturally we'll put the lid on really really tight we'll also need a good pair of oven mitts or gloves so that we can handle these jars because this stuff comes out super duper hot okay the reason we're doing it outside is because it has a smell it's not a stinky smell but it's a cooking pork type smell and i don't want my whole house to smell like that we live in a very small house also this is fairly dangerous so do it outside in a place where if this were to fall over or get knocked over it's flammable liquid once it gets hot it's flammable liquid it's fat so you want to be safe about it okay use your head use your noggin we're starting to hear it sizzle a little bit and we've cooked down probably to about half the size that we were so we're going to start adding some more lard i have that big pan that i brought out here and we're just going to take our ladle really you just need a ladle or a fork or something but a nice spoon with a flat bottom like that or a nice spatula with a flat bottom is good to keep stirring it okay so you want to put it on a medium heat to get started and just keep stirring it and we'll have all that lard right here in this uh pan awesome all right we'll see you guys once it cooks all the way down and we start scooping it out into our jars and we're going to be using a little jar canning type funnel for that okay be careful this stuff's hot man you can really hurt yourself so you got to be smart you got to be careful all right we started this probably about