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Tag: tallow

Can’t not eat money, maybe

November 29, 2016 Marc Abrahams

The saying “We can’t eat money” begs disagreement from British vegans and vegetarians. A report in The Guardian says: Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly More than 50,000 sign petition to cease use of tallow in production process, saying it is unacceptable to vegans and vegetarians… NEXT POST: Did those kids drool way […]

Arts and Sciencecash, money, pound, tallow, vegan

Edible tallow — It’s what’s for dinner

June 30, 2010 Marc Abrahams

Though some people mistakenly think tallow is just for making candles and soap, some savvy tallow-makers make edible tallow. In 1982, J.C. Marlow of the Australian firm Advanced Meat Industry Technology Pty., Ltd. wrote a monograph called “Edible Rendering” that contains a section on “Production of Edible Tallow.” The discussion is a bit different from […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsFood, rendering, tallow

Edible rendering, an earlier look

June 29, 2010 Marc Abrahams

This study delivers a less modern (than the 1986 report we mentioned yesterday) look at edible rendering. Edible rendering, again and still, the process(es) of rendering some of this uneaten edible stuff so that it becomes, again, edible. Bates, at Armour and Company in Chicago, writes about steam rendering, dry rendering, the Vio-Bin process, and […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsFood, rendering, tallow

Edibility, rendered again possible

June 28, 2010 Marc Abrahams

The uneaten remains of edible things are sometimes hauled off to be rendered. In 1984, C.J. Fenton of Alfa-Laval Pty., Ltd, in Lidcombe, NSW, Australia, wrote a report about rendering some of this uneaten edible stuff so that it becomes, again, edible. Fenton’s report [an image from which you see partially rendered here, at the […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsFood, rendering, tallow
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