What does it mean to render lard? Rendering lard? What is that you may ask as well as wonder how to render lard. Let me help to clarify what it is. Lard comes from pork fat that has been cooked down a.k.a. rendered and filtered. This process starts off with a slab or ground up fat straight from the pig. The ground or cubed up pork fat is then heated and melted down. During the rendering process the fat separates from skin, meat, or other tissue that may be encased in the fat. Then it’s filtered and stored away where it turns solid at cooler temps or stays liquid at higher temps or somewhere in the middle depending on environmental temps. Lard can be used in frying, baking, seasoning cast iron, oiling pans for cooking, oiling leather, and even in homemade body products. Note Worthy: lard comes from pig fat and tallow comes from beef fat. Here is a short video of me rendering down beef fat into tallow using a different method than what I explain in this post . Can we render a...