beef tallow
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- noun
- /biːf ˈtæloʊ/
- Specialized
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- Beef tallow is great for frying.
- vegetable oil and beef tallow
- beef tallow and oil
- using beef tallow
You're going to use bacon grease, beef tallow, chicken fat, butter, ghee.
- You're going to use bacon grease, beef tallow, chicken fat, butter, ghee.
- And so if you have really, really dry skin and, and get aged and weathered skin, you want to get tallow or beef tallow.
Examples
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I don't know of any other restaurant in America that is using only grass-fed beef tallow for frying.
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When rendering beef tallow, you don't need to be as finicky with it since it won't be used for pastries.
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I miss the good old days when the French fries were fried in beef tallow.
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We've been eating butter and lard and beef tallow for thousands of years.
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Back in the day, McDonald's used beef tallow (beef fat) in their machines to fry their French fries.
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We 1) got canola oil (also known as rapeseed oil) completely out of our kitchen, and 2) switched all of our frying to grass-fed beef tallow.
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Beef tallow is commonly used in traditional cooking for its rich flavor.
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Many chefs prefer beef tallow for frying because it produces a crispier texture.
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Our family recipe calls for beef tallow, which adds an authentic taste to the dish.
Synonyms
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2.6
The oily part of animals' bodies used for cooking and making products
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A hard white fat from animals used to make soap and candles and to grease machines
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'beef' specifies the source (cattle) and 'tallow' names rendered animal fat, so together they denote fat rendered from cattle. This straightforward noun–noun 'type-of' combination is semantically transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Beef tallow comes from the old practice of melting the fatty parts of beef until the clear oil rose and then letting it cool into solid tallow. So, beef tallow today means 'the melted and hardened fat from cattle' that people use for cooking, candles, and soap.