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Simmer and Stir During Rendering

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What happens here

Once the water begins to boil, reduce the heat to a medium-low simmer. Stir the mixture periodically to prevent sticking and ensure even cooking. The water will gradually evaporate, and the fat will slowly melt into liquid lard. Continue simmering and stirring until most of the fat has rendered into liquid, and the solid pieces (cracklings) begin to brown. Monitor the temperature, aiming for 250-300 degrees Fahrenheit, to ensure proper rendering without burning.

Goal: Reduce the heat and let the fat simmer, stirring occasionally, until the water has evaporated and the fat has largely melted, leaving behind cracklings and liquid lard.

Tools and materials

  • Large Stockpot
  • Meat Thermometer (Optional)
  • Slotted Spoon
  • Stove/Heat Source

What they say

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old lay down the old days the women would be inside the house or right outside the house making dinner and hooking up the cracklings and rendering the lard we didn't have that many old women to help us maybe no we don't want oh and then we want young women see looking good so as time goes on over the next hour maybe 2 hours it takes to render all this fat basically we've cooked it down from chunks this size down to chunks yeah the size of the end of your thumbnail here we will go ahead and we'll pour all that fat off into jars and we'll jar it up I wish I could bring you in here and let you smell the aroma the the smell of vision I wish I had smell-o-vision so you could just smell the aroma the pork aroma it's just a really delicious smell that's going on here in the basement my dad's house pretty awesome so my dad wanted to show you we still have the ears this is the ears and the top portion of the scalp and over here we have the feet okay so the ears and the feet and the liver will all be boiled down to make what's called salsa me it's basically what you call head cheese now you can google head cheese if you want to but it's just a delicious treat that's made from pork from boiling this stuff down and rendering it up and making it delicious some folks call it scrapple some folks call it head cheese and some folks call it South's meat delicious stuff all pork products nothing on this pig is going to waste now previously when we made sausage in a video a lot of folks were commenting on this stuff back here these big carboys which are big glass containers what are they contain well they contain wine that we made when we were young kids back in the 80s and they also contain homemade apple cider vinegar underneath here is homemade apple cider vinegar we're gonna tease you with that a little bit and we're gonna talk about that stuff in a future vlog we'll show you how to make it so stick around right now we're gonna let all this fat and cook up we're gonna give it about a good hour and then we'll show you pouring it into jars it's really interesting I think it's really fun guys this is the time when I say click that like button subscribe to the channel if you're not already to subscribe it and follow our farm journey we're gonna take you places you've never been and teach you things you never learned it's gonna be awesome thanks click the like button subscribe click that bell down there it'll tell you when I post a new video all right so you need to know here…

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