Lamb fat, worth rendering?

Ignoramus30209 wrote:
Just curious... I have about 15 or so lbs of lamb fat (I bought about
175 lbs of lamb with a friend, who won 4 lambs in a livestock
auction).

Would it be a proper idea to render it (melt off the rinds and strain
the liquid), to use for cooking? Or would it be too foul smelling?

I made some lamb hamburgers today, from various bits (the kid loved
them), and some fat that remained, after cooling, was decent tasting
and likely suitable for cooking. That was perhaps not representative
of the remaining fat, so, educated opinions will be appreciated.

I would hate to waste 15 lbs of fat.

Thanks

i


Render it! You could make a couple batches of soap with that. I've
used beef, pork and duck fat for soap so far. I would think that lamb
fat would behave about the same.

For cooking though ... I would think the flavor would really interfere
with whatever else you were cooking.

Rebecca

"Ignoramus30209" wrote in message
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Just curious... I have about 15 or so lbs of lamb fat (I bought about
175 lbs of lamb with a friend, who won 4 lambs in a livestock
auction).


I am sooo jealous!!! How much did 175lbs of lamb cost??

I have a souvla - a greek (from cyprus really) rotisserie BBQ shishkebob
grill. I want lots-o-lamb to cook on it. last night i was looking at $5lb.

make sure you cook some in olive oil with rosemary.

Lamb is sooooo awesome. Deer is my other favorite

I wouldn't want to cook with lamb fat. But my MIL has a 'recipe' for an old
timey salve (that she swears by!) that uses mutton tallow (she has always
used lamb fat.)

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Linda
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"Ignoramus30209" wrote in message
...
Just curious... I have about 15 or so lbs of lamb fat (I bought about
175 lbs of lamb with a friend, who won 4 lambs in a livestock
auction).

Would it be a proper idea to render it (melt off the rinds and strain
the liquid), to use for cooking? Or would it be too foul smelling?

I made some lamb hamburgers today, from various bits (the kid loved
them), and some fat that remained, after cooling, was decent tasting
and likely suitable for cooking. That was perhaps not representative
of the remaining fat, so, educated opinions will be appreciated.

I would hate to waste 15 lbs of fat.

Thanks

i

Rebecca wrote in message news:_jTXc.194617$8_6.128834@attbi_s04...
Ignoramus30209 wrote:
Just curious... I have about 15 or so lbs of lamb fat (I bought about
175 lbs of lamb with a friend, who won 4 lambs in a livestock
auction).

Would it be a proper idea to render it (melt off the rinds and strain
the liquid), to use for cooking? Or would it be too foul smelling?

I made some lamb hamburgers today, from various bits (the kid loved
them), and some fat that remained, after cooling, was decent tasting
and likely suitable for cooking. That was perhaps not representative
of the remaining fat, so, educated opinions will be appreciated.

I would hate to waste 15 lbs of fat.

Thanks

i


Render it! You could make a couple batches of soap with that. I've
used beef, pork and duck fat for soap so far. I would think that lamb
fat would behave about the same.

For cooking though ... I would think the flavor would really interfere
with whatever else you were cooking.

It would be good for frying lamb.

Rebecca

--Bryan