Beef tallow could be making a comeback as a cooking fat, but what is it and how should you use it? We asked a chef, and here's what he said.

Beef tallow, which once might have been more at home in a Dickens novel than a TikTok video, is having an official Moment.

Mentions of the animal fat on menus have grown more than 40% over the past year, according to Technomic, a food service insight company.

This makes beef tallow a good choice for deep-frying or sautéing foods. In fact, McDonald’s used beef tallow to cook their French fries until the mid-1990s before switching to more heart ...

Beef tallow has seen a surge in popularity after being spotlighted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. through his Make America Healthy ...

Beef tallow is high in saturated fat and cholesterol ... "People should eat fewer French fries, whatever they're deep fried ...

In November he posted a video of himself dipping a Thanksgiving turkey into a pot of beef tallow for deep frying his “tallow turkey.” “This is how we cook the MAHA way,” Kennedy says in ...

Beef tallow is high in saturated fat and cholesterol ... "People should eat fewer French fries, whatever they're deep fried in," said Christopher Gardner, a nutrition scientist at Stanford ...