Recent content by Eclypse

Thank you for this site. I, too, forage, make wine, process most of my own food. I also feed my Federal Service Dogs a biologicaly appropriate raw food diet, so I always have lots of fat for tallow. I really like the calculator that this site provides. It has helped me out with the math and...

Greetings. I render tallow in a crock pot with water. Some practical info to keep "smell" lessened: 1) use FRESH ground suet. 2) after all the fat melts and is floating on the water; skim out the solids with a fine steel mesh strainer. 3) Ladle remaining fat and water through a steel mesh...

I've changed the name on my soap recipe after changing it slightly. Just click on the title while you're in edit, then when you're finished click on update at the bottom.

Thank you so very much.

Could you please add borax to the additive list? I'd like to know the % amount. We have extremely hard iron water and this ingredient has helped in the past. Thanks