For Soapmakers: How to break down suet and grind it for tallow

[pgarmin]

This is wonderful, but what happens if we just cut everything in small pieces and boil to separate fat? Is there a way to skip the breaking part and all the laborious work? :)

[TarotLadyLissa]

I prefer lard to tallow, but tallow makes a great softening bar too! Right now I only sell vegan soaps, but my family prefers lard!

[Oreocremerocks]

where did you get your suet, and roughly how much per pound did you have to pay. I am going to make some tallow soap this summer to have for the winter months ( first time for making my own tallow, I bought it before, but yikes its too much now, and hoping if I do the work it will be cheaper) crosses fingers.

[Desaundrea]

@Oreocremerocks Sorry I am late to see this comment. I bought the suet from my butcher and I paid 99 cents a pound. I paid roughly 30 dollars for the tallow. :o)

[Oreocremerocks]

@Desaundrea NP =) We don't have a butcher in our town, just prepackaged gunk LOL. But I go to the city once a month for most of my meats, I will just get some then or order it saved if they don't have it put back already.

[WuTangghost0007]

Great Video!!

[Leadervisions]

Thank you so much for making and post these tallow videos, I am ready to begin my soap making adventure. I would love to see a video of you making your black soaps. that would awesome. Love and Peace be with you.

[Splendorious]

REally you are doing good carrying on a legacy i have only heard of so you are richer for it and thanks for enriching us <3

I for the past couple of months have aspired to learn and you have greatly helped my learning curve.

[zippyspring]

Lord have mercy. I don't know what to think. I know we need soap and this is part of the process but I think I need to find a way that does not include using animal fat. I have to find a way to make soap for myself instead of buying commercial soap. Thanks for putting the truth out there.

[Desaundrea]

You can use all oils :-) You don't HAVE to use animal fat. I am going to do two kinds of soap animal fat (suet) and veggie. I don't have 15 molds laying around so I have to make them in two different batches lol. Using animal fat is a CHOICE thing, not a requirement. :-)

[jeffzahnd]

why don't you just pour the soap into a 5 gallon bucket or something instead of molds. You can mold them after you hand mill it. Oh, and you can just use a pvc pipe. I shoot some Olive oil spray in the pipe, pour and once it's cured some you can push out a log of soap and cute into pucks.

[Splendorious]

YUCK! OMG

[Desaundrea]

LOL its not for eating you know lol, BTW do you know how soap companies make sodium tallowate? They start the same way I did in this video lol Enjoy your next bath knowing it has beef fat in it making your skin soft and smooth :-)

[ibbs72]

My mom was watching this with me. she remembers helping my greatgrandmother doing this when she use to make the old fashion soaps for laundry and stuff. They use to use the big old cast iron pots and even make lye from wood ashes.

[Desaundrea]

I know cool right? lol I know its not a new thing but I kinda feel like it is. Commercial soaps don't have that creaminess that tallow soaps have, and I want that back. It wasn't that hard to break down the suet and I got a some nice thick discs out of the fats :-)

[07ARYSSA]

I accidently waste all my grape seed.

[Desaundrea]

How did you manage that?

[07ARYSSA]

That looks crazy.LOL