: the white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep used chiefly in soap, candles, and lubricants
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Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Seasoned with Adalina Prime’s house salt blend, cooked on a broiler at 800°F, and then brushed with beef tallow that were infused with gluten-free miso, yondu, vegan Worcestershire, rosemary, thyme, shallots, and garlic, this may become the restaurant’s signature dish.
—Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Stock image of a frying pan coated with beef tallow.
—Toby Meyjes, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Not deep-fried or marketed alongside the latest trend — who knows whether that sausage was brushed in tallow or if the cooks avoided seed oils for the flavorful vinaigrette on those tomatoes, those kaleidoscopic tomatoes.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The Dumpster lid and tallow bin were open at the time of the inspection.
—Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Seasoned with Adalina Prime’s house salt blend, cooked on a broiler at 800°F, and then brushed with beef tallow that were infused with gluten-free miso, yondu, vegan Worcestershire, rosemary, thyme, shallots, and garlic, this may become the restaurant’s signature dish.
—Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Stock image of a frying pan coated with beef tallow.
—Toby Meyjes, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Not deep-fried or marketed alongside the latest trend — who knows whether that sausage was brushed in tallow or if the cooks avoided seed oils for the flavorful vinaigrette on those tomatoes, those kaleidoscopic tomatoes.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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tallow
noun
tal·low
ˈtal-(ˌ)ō, -ə(-w) 
: the white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep which is used chiefly in soap, margarine, candles, and lubricants and of which the form obtained from domestic sheep (Ovis aries) is used in pharmacy in ointments and cerates
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