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What (who) is Tallow - definition

RENDERED FORM OF BEEF OR MUTTON FAT, PROCESSED FROM SUET
Beef tallow; Greaves (food); Beef grease; Beef fat; Cow fat; Tallow dip; Tallows; Stag tallow; Deer tallow; Mutton fat; Graves (food); Tallowate
  • A tallow candle
  • rendering]] calf [[suet]]
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  • stearic]] and [[oleic acid]]s.

tallow         
n.
Suet (freed from adhering membranes).
tallow         
Tallow is hard animal fat that is used for making candles and soap.
N-UNCOUNT
tallow         
¦ noun a hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat, used (especially formerly) in making candles and soap.
Derivatives
tallowy adjective
Origin
ME: perh. from Mid. Low Ger.

Wikipedia

Tallow

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, primarily made up of triglycerides.

In industry, tallow is not strictly defined as beef or mutton fat. In this context, tallow is animal fat that conforms to certain technical criteria, including its melting point. Commercial tallow commonly contains fat derived from other animals, such as lard from pigs, or even from plant sources.

The adjacent diagram shows the chemical structure of a typical triglyceride molecule.

The solid material remaining after rendering is called cracklings, greaves, or graves. It has been used mostly for animal food, such as dog food.

In the soap industry and among soap-making hobbyists, the name tallowate is used informally to refer to soaps made from tallow. Sodium tallowate, for example, is obtained by reacting tallow with sodium hydroxide (lye, caustic soda) or sodium carbonate (washing soda). It consists chiefly of a variable mixture of sodium salts of fatty acids, such as oleic and palmitic.

Examples of use of Tallow
1. "As the Chinese tallow and other invasives take over, they form a dense canopy that makes it hard for the oak and maple to grow well.
2. Where today‘s science has yielded hair wax, putty, glue, and paste to cement them into place, pomps of yore depended on beef tallow, bear grease, and other artery–cloggers.
3. But some of the native deciduous forests were severely damaged, and the young, slow–growing oaks and maples are being squeezed out by Chinese tallow trees –– an ornamental plant imported more than a century ago.