Set Up for Rendering and Start Cooking

looks like here we are we're doing this outside so that is our lard all cut up our leaf fat all cut up it's not lard yet it'll be lard in a minute what we're using here is just a hot plate here this is a toastmaster hot plate we could do this on a wood stove it's just not cold enough but we really don't want to do this inside i've got this on a cart this is a titan attachments shop cart and it's super duper handy super sturdy i can lay on this thing it's really tough we probably have a pounds of pork fat here now questions i got asked a whole lot last time we did this how do you start it well how do you start cooking bacon you know it's pretty much as simple as starting to cook bacon so we'll just start on a low heat and then we'll bring up our heat gradually to a boil okay you want to put this in a very stable location this will be very stable it'll be just fine for what we're doing here so we're going to turn the heat on low and i've got to babysit this thing for probably the next three hours what we'll do i'll get a flat faced spoon or spatula and i'll stir it a metal spatula and what we're basically doing is cooking all of this down much like you cook bacon down and we'll cook it down into a liquid and we'll put it in jars it's a job but you're going to make enough to have for years to come a lot of times this stuff will be shelf stable if you want to you can sprinkle a little bit of salt in there it won't hurt anything it's kind of like salted butter i guess so a little bit of salt would be okay i'd say for a pot this big and this is uh this is a pretty darn big pot for for a total of about 20 pounds i'd say put a teaspoon of salt in there and that'd be plenty okay so we're going to start cooking this down and we'll see you guys in a few hours that's all this is all you do is cube up the fat and inside where that fat comes out of