coon fat for tallow?

[cooncrazy]

wondering if coon fat could make good tallow? got another one today and was looking at the fat I scrapped off on the fleshing board. might have to break out the roaster and try it!

 

[Black Hand]

wondering if coon fat could make good tallow? got another one today and was looking at the fat I scrapped off on the fleshing board. might have to break out the roaster and try it!

I know someone who uses/has used raccoon grease.

 

[cooncrazy]

come to think of it, I got some beaver fat also.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I don't think so. When you say "tallow" it means beef or mutton fat rendered to . . . tallow. If you start with raccoon you will get rendered raccoon fat. But by definition not tallow. Just as rendered pig fat is lard. You can't get tallow from a pig. Just as you can't get lard from a sheep.

 

[Carbon 6]

come to think of it, I got some beaver fat also.

I thought I read somewhere once that the fat from beaver tails was rendered into a fine oil for use on guns
Let us know how it turns out.

 

[necchi]

Nope. It's all different stuff.
Grease, tallow, lard and oils,, all from different critters.
Some works, some don't.
Short story about coon,, don't work. Think about it,, if coon grease was good, there would still be;
"Olde Ticks" Muzzle Loading Patch Lube,, the best coon tallow you can find today on the market. We've been in business for 200 years because coon tallow is the best you can get for all ML uses,,,
Guess what? The oldest story is spit,, and they're still selling fake spit today

 

[buford87]

wondering if coon fat could make good tallow? got another one today and was looking at the fat I scrapped off on the fleshing board. might have to break out the roaster and try it!

It seems to me that coon fat would render down into something very much like bear oil. No it won't make tallow but it would be usable as a lubricant...........watch yer top knot...........

 

[tenngun]

I’ve used it as lube and cooking, it works as well as lard as rust preventive and patch lube.

 

[BrownBear]

I've played with a fair number of animal fats/tallows/oils from brown bear right up to seal oil. Bottom line all that I've tried work just fine as lubes. The biggest difference comes in what form they take after you prepare them and how you have to handle them in the field. Jugs of oil leak, greases get soft or hard as the temp goes up and down, some of them go rancid fast. And more. Don't recall a thing about racoon, though we ate a lot when I was a kid. My recollection comes mostly from what was in the bottom of the pan after roasting. I just remember that it was darned good for dipping biscuits.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I've found that fat from an old groundhog is rather unpleasant in aroma..., but the dog thought it was darn tasty when mixed with meat.

LD

 

[dixie5032]

First post here after lurking and learning a lot for a while. I found jars of beef and bison tallow at a grocery store the other day and I'm curious as to what the difference is, other than the $1.00 difference between the two. Thanks for any info!

Dave C (aka dixie5032 which stands for two DGW Tennessee Mountain rifles in .50 and .32 cal)

 

[Carbon 6]

. I found jars of beef and bison tallow at a grocery store the other day and I'm curious as to what the difference is, other than the $1.00 difference between the two. )

Taste Maybe ? From dietary or minor genetic differences, I don't know. I would think it to be quite similar since beef and buffalo are in the same family. They can even be inter bred, then you would have Beefalo tallow.
A cow is basically a domesticated bison with a lot of selective breeding.

 

[Juice Jaws]

It seems to me that coon fat would render down into something very much like bear oil. No it won't make tallow but it would be usable as a lubricant...........watch yer top knot...........

Coon and bear are in the same family. Coon should render down like bear oil.

 

[necchi]

Coon and bear are in the same family.

Uhm, you might wanna check on that,,

 

[Stumpkiller]

Different family. But the Dutch name for "raccoon" is "wash bear" (wasbeer).

In this area we call them "Trash Pandas"

 

[RHensley]

When I was very young we killed hogs and rendered lard. Big black kettel and hickory fire under it . I've tried many different lubes since the late 60's and lately have settled on lamb and deer tallow. Now I don't know how the lamb was done but the deer I do know. I got some water boiling (212 degrees or so. different at different sea levels) and put the deer fat in in small pcs. after a while I dipped the left over pcs out and let cool. I skimmed the top and let that dry. I was very firm but not rock hard. This seems to work rather good for patch lube. or has so far. I don't know how coon fat would do if it was rendered like this. I know I was glad to have watched the gentleman on youtube to see this method. Again thanks Keith.

 

[RHensley]

Different family. But the Dutch name for "raccoon" is "wash bear" (wasbeer).

In this area we call them "Trash Pandas"

When I was younger we called them good eating. I always liked them par boiled and then fried . take the juice from boiling and make gravy with home made biscuits. I miss those days.

 

[Beaver Trapper]

I am nor sure about coon. I've made patch lube from rendered beaver fat and beeswax. It went rancid within about 8 months. The last batch I made was with beeswax, grape seed oil and a little Murphy's Oil soap. The Murphy's Oil Soap froths up the mixture nicely. We need patch lube to me a little thin for hunting below freezing in the winter.

 

[Nessmuck56]

Coon is part of the Bear Family...just like a Fisher is part of the weasel family

 

[RHensley]

I am nor sure about coon. I've made patch lube from rendered beaver fat and beeswax. It went rancid within about 8 months. The last batch I made was with beeswax, grape seed oil and a little Murphy's Oil soap. The Murphy's Oil Soap froths up the mixture nicely. We need patch lube to me a little thin for hunting below freezing in the winter.

My tallow is kept in the freeze. I have small tin about the size of shoe polish can that I refill. Now like I said years ago when I was young we kept a stand of lard in the ketchen. It was use for baking and frying everything. To my knowledge it was used up before it went bad. I do know the biscuits were very good. The deer tallow I made worked good this year even though the temp. got below freezing. I used a short starter but after it was in the barrel it went down ok.