Rendering Fat

Here is a two-part video I did on rendering fat. Fat gets a bad rep, but the fact is that our bodies need a certain amount of it because some nutrients are fat-soluble and not water soluble. And animal fat is not necessarily unhealthy if used in moderation, and if you are getting lots of exercise like I do.

In this video I render fat from pork chops with fat from my home made bacon, so as to give the fat a bacon flavour. This fat can be canned in mason jars for long term storage, and has all sorts of uses in applications where you want to add a bacon flavour to something. And who doesn't want everything to taste like bacon?

And here is part 2