Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, processed from suet. It is solid at room temperature.
Suet
Sure, it is just rendered beef or mutton fat. However tallow really doesn't taste all that great. Lard is also safe to eat, it is just rendered pork fat. Its has a much better taste than tallow!!!
Yes, but to be more precise it is called Beef Tallow. Lard is a term used for pigs
Shortening (All of Popeyes fried items are prepared in the following shortening. This product contains some naturally occurring trans fats.) BEEF TALLOW, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED BEEF TALLOW, BHT ADDED TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, AND DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANE, AN ANTIFOAMING AGENT
Tallow is rendered mutton, beef or other bovine fat. Biodiesel can be made from tallow using similar methods and processes to plant oils. The resulting biodiesel has a higher cetane number than plant oil biodiesel meaning a cleaner and more efficient fuel.
Just about all the major soap manufacturers use a mixture of beef and pork tallow (or beef tallow and pork lard, if you want to get persnickety) Ivory Soap's website says it's made of both vegetable oils and animal fats.
Milkweed
Tallow is beef fat, a trigylceride. Hydrogenation breaks the double bonds of a hydrocarbon, and replaces them with single carbon atoms. This process is known as "saturation" - you're saturating all the bonds with carbon. Generally, hydrogenated fats are solids, and less hydrogenated fats are liquids. Hydrogenation is sometimes called "hardening" the fats involved. Tallow, on the other hand, is pretty hard already. There aren't many bonds that aren't already saturated. Hydrogenated tallow would be a slightly stiffer fat than ordinary tallow.
One source says 0.9. It should be similar to lard, which has a specific gravity of 0.96.
You can get it from mutton tallow.
Tallow is a hard, fatty substance. The candles were made from animal tallow.