Talk:Tallow

Old talk
The following sentence: "Before switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990, McDonald's corporation cooked its french fries in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil." Is incorrect, in the sentence it states 1990 as the change date, however, I have a box her of Mac Fries™ that I have used for packing our punch bowl and on it it clearly says "Use before 92 FE 16 C LT 136 06:54 C" and on the box the Ingredients: "potatoes, beef tallow, vegetable oil, may contain dextrose and sodium acid pyrophosphate.", so clearly this change did not happen in 1990. So I am changing the page to read "in the 1990's". Skippingrock

The following sentence: —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skippingrock (talk • contribs) 00:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC) "Amid concerns in the 1990s over high cholesterol content, and protests from Hindus (many of whom do not consume food derived from beef) and vegetarians, McDonald's french fries were cooked in a mixture 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil." is either poorly written or an unreferenced slam at McDonalds.

Frappyjohn (talk) 07:38, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Frappyjohn. I think it's either implying that McDonald's changed their french fry recipe from the 93% beef tallow blend because of controversy, or their beef tallow blend cooking mixture caused controversy but I'm not sure which point the sentence is trying to convey. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.232.89.103 (talk) 06:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

to my knowledge, the change came because of an intimidation campaign by the CSPI (center for science in the public interest). As per www.panu.com  and many others, we now know that vegetable oils are kind of a slow-acting poison due to their overwhelming content of omega-6 polyunsaturates. Tallow is mostly saturated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.209.120.109 (talk) 14:14, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Tallow is a term now used primarily in America only. I believe what americans call tallow (i.e. dried, rendered suet) is still called suet in other nations even though it is different from fresh suet.

According to the OED, UK view: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/tallow?view=uk Seems to be the appropriate definition?

How To Do It
In an age where these things are not taught, I'd like a link to something that told how to render tallow. Are there instructions in a wiki cookbook, or on some cooking site? 128.147.28.1 (talk) 18:11, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Dead link
Reference #3 (Hey Flux, for tallow as a flux, presumably), is dead. I don't know what the procedure is for that. 86.169.45.137 (talk) 11:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Polymer Pellet
Tallow is used as anti-static/anti-binding agent in Polymer Pellets in Plastics Manufacturing.

https://www.akzonobel.com/polymer/system/images/AkzoNobel_PolymerAdditives_Sept2016_lowres_tcm96-23628.pdf http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781118582732_sample_385631.pdf

In the UK electrical supply stores sell tubs of tallow, used to ease cables through conduits.

81.178.135.20 (talk) 18:47, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not as a cable pulling lubricant (they sell one, but it's not tallow, it's either a wax or a water-soluble polymer). Tallow is for cutting threads in steel conduit. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:32, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Temporarily leak repair in wooden boats
Tallow also is used to repair underwater leaks in wooden boats. It will temporarily stop incoming water so other repairs can be done in the now dry hull. Basvossen (talk) 02:54, 14 June 2022 (UTC)