Rendering

Today I'm rendering tallow (beef fat) for the first time. I purchased roughly 10 lbs of beef fat scraps and had the butcher grind it up for me. What I seem to have now is maybe 4 or 5 lbs of actual tallow and 4 or 5 lbs of hamburger. Now, my instructions say to throw away the 'solids' but I really can't understand why. It's cooked hamburger, just like any other would be. So we might try to do something with it.

I will say that so far, the half-finished tallow looks really nice and smells great! Imagine the scent of cooking hamburger, that's the scent of the tallow at this point. I'm only at the second cook (out of 3), so still a little way to go before it'll be ready to use. Still, it's not as bad as I had been told, at least it isn't thus far.