# What to do with rendered fat?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-rendered-fat/222345 "2004-01-02T19:41:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-rendered-fat/222345/21 "2004-01-07T16:47:56Z")

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Rendered animal fat is excellent for making crispy (and tasty) roast potatoes, but also good for greasing the pan for Yorkshire puddings. Duck or goose fat is the best.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-rendered-fat/222345/22 "2004-01-07T16:58:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by N9IWP \*  
> **I’m almost positive it could be used for jet fuel, I’ve heard of parafin (candle wax), why not animal fat?**

I wonder if what you actually heard was someone referring to kerosene by its UK name (paraffin).

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-rendered-fat/222345/23 "2004-01-07T18:01:43Z")

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Rendered fat is great for cooking, but if you are going to dispose of it, keeping it in an old soup can, as mentioned above, is a good idea. Keep the can in the freezer so the fat congeals and just toss the frozen block in the trash on pickup day.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-rendered-fat/222345/24 "2004-01-07T19:14:49Z")

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Avant garde sculpture!

Make a bust of **Czarcasm**!

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