meat fat
Rendered cooking lipid
The fat found in or rendered from animal flesh, distinguished from plant-based fats and oils.
Meat fat includes beef tallow, pork lard, and chicken schmaltz.
It may refer to visible fat on cuts of meat or to fat used in cooking: The recipe calls for meat fat rather than butter.
Meat fat carries flavor and was the primary cooking fat before vegetable oils became widespread.
- lardClarified pork fat
- beef tallowRendered bovine fat
- tallowRendered animal fat
- suetHard animal fat
- greaseThick oily lubricant
bacon grease · marbling · dripping · bacon · pork belly · crispy · sizzle · render · juicy · cholesterol · streaky · unctuous · butcher · pork · belly · trim · crackling · skillet
- cooking fatslard, shortening, tallow, vegetable oil, bacon grease
- kitchen scrapseggshell, coffee grounds, carrot tops, apple core, crumbs
meat fatvegetable oil
Plant-derived culinary lipid
olive oil · seed oil · coconut oil · canola oil · sunflower oil
meat fatlean meat
Flesh with little fat
muscle · lean protein · lean · sinew · tenderloin
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