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Rendered animal fat typically has a shelf life of 1-6 months, a year if you’re lucky. In my frantic research I recently discovered a method of storage that extends fat’s shelf life to 3+ years.
This is good news!
The only hitch is that this method is dependant on an unsustainable resource: canning jars and lids. Still, if you have too much fat to immediately consume or want to put some away in the proverbial `larder`, this method is super cheap and requires almost no extra energy. One simply pours freshly rendered, burning hot liquid fat into a jar, plops the appropriate sterilized lid on, fastens and it seals itself. It`s just simple hot pack canning. Read the rest of this entry »
