I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday while I
was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full of dark smoky
pork fat.

I was hoping I could use this in the same way I use fat rendered from bacon,
i.e. to add flavor to items when browning them in a skillet.

Is this stuff edible? It smells very smoky indeed.

Grant

Grant Erwin wrote:
I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday while I
was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full of dark smoky
pork fat.

I was hoping I could use this in the same way I use fat rendered from
bacon,
i.e. to add flavor to items when browning them in a skillet.

Is this stuff edible? It smells very smoky indeed.

Grant

In a word: NO While it probably won't harm you, the flavor would be
terrible.

--
Nonny

Nonnymus
Never believe a person who is
Drunk, Horny or Running for Office.

Grant Erwin wrote:
I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday
while I was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full
of dark smoky pork fat.

I was hoping I could use this in the same way I use fat rendered from
bacon, i.e. to add flavor to items when browning them in a skillet.

Is this stuff edible? It smells very smoky indeed.

Yuck.... NO

--
Dave www.davebbq.com

What is best in life? "To crush your enemies, see them driven before
you, and to hear the lamentation of the women." -- Conan

Grant Erwin wrote:

I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday while I
was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full of dark smoky
pork fat.

I didn't read the rest of your post, but the answer is a big "NO".

-sw

frohe wrote:

"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
news:EOhXj.2$pk1.1@trndny07...
I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday while I
was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full of dark smoky
pork fat.

I was hoping I could use this in the same way I use fat rendered from
bacon,
i.e. to add flavor to items when browning them in a skillet.

Is this stuff edible? It smells very smoky indeed.

If you had put a drip pan under the butts and put the drippings into the
fridge right after cooking then I would say it is edible.

Edible, but not useful at all. I've tried doing it with duck fat.

-sw

Grant Erwin wrote:
I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday while I
was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full of dark smoky
pork fat.

I was hoping I could use this in the same way I use fat rendered from
bacon,
i.e. to add flavor to items when browning them in a skillet.

Is this stuff edible? It smells very smoky indeed.

Grant

Do you have a diesel engine?

Grant Erwin wrote:
I installed a drain in my smoker and put a can under it yesterday while I
was smoking pork butts. I collected most of a soup can full of dark smoky
pork fat.

I was hoping I could use this in the same way I use fat rendered from
bacon,
i.e. to add flavor to items when browning them in a skillet.

Is this stuff edible? It smells very smoky indeed.

Grant


Don't think I'd cook with it BUT a friend of mine with Q joint generates a
lot of the stuff. For grins I arranged to process 20 gallons of it into
biodiesel. The car, a '92 Mercedes diesel, ran great and smelled
wonderfully smoky at the tailpipe.

JD