Fat or not ?

[chaoticcar]

My husband who hates the tiniest bit of fat on his meat and cuts of every bit he can see and if he gets the minutest in his mouth you would think that he had been poisoned !! ,but when I take the dripping off the meat juices he has it on his breakfast toast and I have to almost fight to get a piece of crackling .says that dripping and crackling are NOT fat is he right !!!!!!!
CAROL

 

[grovesy]

They are fat.As a child. when the dripping was poured into a bowl it would set solid.

 

[Northerner]

My husband who hates the tiniest bit of fat on his meat and cuts of every bit he can see and if he gets the minutest in his mouth you would think that he had been poisoned !! ,but when I take the dripping off the meat juices he has it on his breakfast toast and I have to almost fight to get a piece of crackling .says that dripping and crackling are NOT fat is he right !!!!!!!
CAROL

They are fat 🙂 As children we often had dripping spread on bread and sprinkled with salt - try telling that to the health police these days 😱 🙂 I fancy some now!

 

[Hazel]

of God - my Dad used to make me suck on balls of butter rolled in sugar to ease a sore throat as a young child

to this day I cannot stomach any kind if butter or fat of any description

eugh!!!

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

My nanna used to give us dripping on toast for tea sometimes, delicious!

 

[Northerner]

of God - my Dad used to make me suck on balls of butter rolled in sugar to ease a sore throat as a young child

to this day I cannot stomach any kind if butter or fat of any description

eugh!!!

That's a new one on me Hazel! 😱 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

of God - my Dad used to make me suck on balls of butter rolled in sugar to ease a sore throat as a young child

to this day I cannot stomach any kind if butter or fat of any description

eugh!!!

Barf!!

However I did see something about 50:50 fat and carbs some years ago. Apparently all carbs, or all fat and experimental rats end up feeling full and stopping - with their weight stable. But mix them 50:50 and they just keep eating and gaining weight.

 

[Robin]

The fat that comes round the edge of a piece of meat is fairly solid, no way could,you spread it. Yet if you put that piece of fat into the oven and cook it slowly, it renders down into the stuff that we know as dripping, leaving behind an inedible, shrivelled bit of indigestible stuff that was originally the piece of fat. ( I do this with the goose fat at Christmas, to get enough goose grease to cook spuds in through the year)
Therefore I can only conclude that heating the fat renders down the good bits, leaving behind the bits that make it undigestible in the first instance.

 

[Robin]

Barf!!

However I did see something about 50:50 fat and carbs some years ago. Apparently all carbs, or all fat and experimental rats end up feeling full and stopping - with their weight stable. But mix them 50:50 and they just keep eating and gaining weight.

I can believe that. Nobody ever overeats dry toast. Or eats a whole pat of butter on its own. But combine the two.....

 

[Amigo]

of God - my Dad used to make me suck on balls of butter rolled in sugar to ease a sore throat as a young child

to this day I cannot stomach any kind if butter or fat of any description

eugh!!!

My dad did too Hazel. It used to be believed to cure croup (a myth) and it made me sick! He thought it was the right thing to do bless him!

 

[Amigo]

My nanna used to give us dripping on toast for tea sometimes, delicious!

They serve congealed dripping fat in little bowls in restaurants in Poland. We were given it to spread on the bread. It’s vile incidentally! 😱

 

[Northerner]

They serve congealed dripping fat in little bowls in restaurants in Poland. We were given it to spread on the bread. It’s vile incidentally! 😱

Anyone ever tried brawn? It's jellied pig's head - we were served it in Russia and it was also vile 😱

 

[Amigo]

Anyone ever tried brawn? It's jellied pig's head - we were served it in Russia and it was also vile 😱

Ooo yes we had that too! Shudders! 😱

 

[Robin]

Someone's going to mention tripe in a moment. (*ducks under parapet*)

 

[Ditto]

It's all fat. Yummy. I look out for the fattiest cuts and the fattiest bacon and luv pork belly. Would draw the line at brawn yuck. Mum used to luv it. They used to eat anything though, she just used to complain when they had sheep's head stew saying "Mum, at least take the teeth out!" 😱

And yeah, Mum luvs tripe. 😛

 

[Northerner]

Someone's going to mention tripe in a moment. (*ducks under parapet*)

I used to know a lad who worked a Saturday job in a butcher's - he became addicted to raw tripe and got the sack for eating the stock! 😱 My Dad once cooked some for me and my sister as a 'surprise' - possibly the most revolting thing I have ever attempted to eat 😱

 

[khskel]

Someone's going to mention tripe in a moment. (*ducks under parapet*)

Had tripe in aspic in Poland. Washed down with vodka it was only slightly disgusting. The tripe soup was actually very nice.

 

[Lisa66]

To be honest I really don't have anything to add to this thread other than....yuk! 😱..think I need a peppermint.

 

[Bloden]

The Spanish eat tripe with absolute relish - I keep trying it, just in case I suddenly like it, but...nope...I still don't like it! They chop it up tiny and cook it with olive oil and veg, chick peas, whatever...but that rank 'flavour' is impossible to conceal...never tried it U.K.-stylee.😱

 

[Mark Parrott]

I always cut the fat off meat unless it's gone crispy. I don't like sauces on steak because I can't see the fat & if I eat it by accident, hate the texture. I love pork belly as long as it's nuked.🙂