Can i use beef tallow for a roux?

I've used beef tallow to make chocolate chip cookies

I think it will be fine in a roux

Beef tallow is fine for roux because of it's high smoke temp. Butter works but it's lower smoke temp means it needs a less hot fire.

Maybe I screwed something else up, but the one time I used tallow for a roux, it separated badly. If you’re staying away from seed oils, avocado oil or bacon grease work great for rouxs.

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With that being said, can i use a beef tallow for a roux?

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I make my own tallow when buying large slabs of beef with the fat cap and cook down that fat for tallow.

I will use it to make a roux and have done so many times with good results. I'm old school and prefer to make my rouxs low and slow most of the time, especially when needing a lot for a big pot of stew or gumbo, but it works fine.

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I like to use the oil of the protein im cooking with if possible. I

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If you ever make chicken and dumplings, cook your chicken the day before in a pot of seasoned water like you would for making stock. Pick the meat off the bones when it is cooked and return the bones and fat to the pot to simmer longer and make a good pot of stock. Put the chicken in the fridge to make the dish the next day.

Let the stock cool and put in the fridge until the next day and skim the congealed chicken fat off the top to use when making your dumplings instead of using lard or some other fat. Instant chicken flavor in the dumplings and the finished stock can be added to the pot as needed.

Ms GT doesn't care for dumplings so I never make it but I love using the chicken fat for flavor...its great with scrambled eggs too. Chicken on chicken crime

Bacon fat and beef fat have the same smoke point.

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seed oils are literal cancer in a bottle

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With that being said, can i use a beef tallow for a roux?

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You can, but animal fat has a much lower smoke point, so your roux may take awhile.

Don't go to bat for seed oils.