Editing Tallow (section)

{{Short description|Rendered form of beef or mutton fat}}
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[[File:Tallow-beef suet after rendering.jpg|thumb|240px|Tallow made by [[Rendering (animal products)|rendering]] calf [[suet]]]]

'''Tallow''' is a [[rendering (industrial)|rendered]] form of [[beef]] or [[mutton]] [[suet]], primarily made up of [[triglyceride]]s.

In industry, tallow is not strictly defined as beef or mutton suet. In this context, tallow is [[animal fat]] that conforms to certain technical criteria, including its [[melting point]]. Commercial tallow commonly contains fat derived from other animals, such as [[lard]] from [[domestic pig|pigs]], or even from plant sources.
[[File:TriglycerideTallow.svg|thumb|300px|Tallow consists mainly of triglycerides (fat), whose major constituents are derived from [[stearic acid|stearic]] and [[oleic acid]]s.]]

The solid material remaining after rendering is called [[cracklings]], greaves, or graves.<ref name=tyson>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tysonanimalnutrition.com/premium-products/all-about-rendering |title=Greaves: a high-protein solid which is left following the extraction of tallow from animal by-products during the rendering process. |access-date=2018-10-28 |archive-date=2019-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622222019/https://www.tysoningredientsolutions.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It has been used mostly for [[animal feed|animal food]], such as [[dog food#History|dog food]].<ref name=boyard>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ODpFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA552&num=100&q=intitle%3A%22animaux%20domestiques%22%20chat Nicolas Jean Baptiste Boyard,'' Manuel du bouvier et zoophile: ou l'art d'élever de soigner les animaux'' 1844, 327]</ref><ref name=sports>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-oDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT158|title=The Sportsman's Dictionary; Or, The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and Country|date=December 6, 1785|publisher=G. G. J. and J. Robinson|via=Google Books}}</ref>

In the soap industry and among soap-making [[hobby]]ists, the name '''tallowate''' is used informally to refer to soaps made from tallow.  [[soap|Sodium tallowate]], for example, is obtained by reacting tallow with [[sodium hydroxide]] (lye, caustic soda) or [[sodium carbonate]] (washing soda).  It consists chiefly of a variable mixture of sodium [[salt (chemistry)|salts]] of [[fatty acid]]s, such as [[oleic acid|oleic]] and [[palmitic acid|palmitic]].<ref name=wint2007>Ruth Winter (2007): ''A Consumerýs Dictionary of Household, Yard and Office Chemicals: Complete Information About Harmful and Desirable Chemicals Found in Everyday Home Products, Yard Poisons, and Office Polluters''. 364 pages. {{isbn|9781462065783}}</ref>