Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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Has anyone done this?

flag	asked May 26 2010 at 14:03 Laura 66●1

You should be able to. Set it on high, add a little fluid. Give it 10-12 hours or so. – Matt Baldwin May 26 2010 at 14:46

Bread-Eating Beelzebub · Answer 1 · 2010-05-26 18:36:24Z UTC

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I do this all the time. I usually use pork belly because I get a meat + lard. I cook the pork belly + seasonings in the crock pot on low overnight. In the morning you should have delicious belly in a pool of fat. The fat can be further purified on the stove.

answered May 26 2010 at 18:36

Bread-Eating Beelzebub
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	I do the same with pork belly, but have recently switched to welsh lamb shoulders. Fatty heaven. – sean Nov 18 2010 at 20:21
	And now lamb belly! (called lamb breast in UK). As fatty as pork belly but with a much better fat profile than pork. – sean Nov 20 2010 at 16:16

Jordan · Answer 2 · 2010-05-26 14:38:07Z UTC

I was just reading this site, http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/07/09/how-to-render-lard-tallow/, which gives instructions for rendering fats in either the Oven, the Stove, or Crockpot. Haven't tried it out just yet...trying to source the fat first!

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I have never seen pork belly in any market. Where do you get it?

answered May 27 2010 at 0:20

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I ask my butcher for it. Most of it becomes bacon, so I guess that's why you have to ask. – Bread-Eating Beelzebub May 27 2010 at 0:35

Michael · Answer 4 · 2010-05-27 07:41:12Z UTC

Yes. I prefer this method to using a stove because I get render the fat at low temperatures. Use the lowest setting possible. I could use an oven, I find that a little messy. (btw, I use Sanyo ECJ-HC100S model as my slow cooker. I love it. All the other slow cookers have warning stickers for lead in their ceramics.)

Can I render fat in a slow cooker/crockpot?

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