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I’m going to try #4 this weekend. From personal experience, everything is better with beef tallow.

How’d you end up on HN and/or how’d you end up in the BBQ game?

Anecdote: Last year my girlfriend recently became obsessed with BBQ and has been smoking brisket using technique #4 for the past month. It's consistently improved the brisket every time.

#4 is rumored to be one of Aaron Franklin’s secrets

Yes. you make the best fries using tallow as well. That's what they (used to) do in Belgium.

McDonald's used to fry their fries in a 93% tallow oil blend until they stopped in 1990 because of hysteria over cholesterol in beef fat.

Guess nobody considered the patties were still chock full of (much more) beef fat, but oh well. (Properly deep fried fries retain only a few grams of oil vs upwards of about 500% more in a single, lean McDonald's patty.)

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