Apartment Therapy Tagged: fat

Food Science: How Butter is Made

A few years back, we were whipping up a bowl of cream and got distracted. When we turned back to the mixer, the whipped cream had gone past the point of fluffy peaks and was now a grainy, watery mess....

Conscientious Cook: Alternatives to Vegetable Shortening

Growing up, we always had a big can of Crisco sitting on the pantry shelf. It got used for everything from greasing pans to making the flakiest pie crust ever. Now that trans fats are drawing some jus...

Tip: Save Your Bacon Fat

This is one practice we think all of our grandmothers probably did that's fallen by the wayside in our generation. But saving the grease left from cooking a batch of bacon isn't just frugal, it's a gr...

In Praise of Pork Fat

We agree with reader mschatelaine from our post on marbling: the push to make everything lean and fat free does tend to go overboard sometimes. Lucky, that won't be a problem as long as pork fat is ar...

Reader Input Needed: How to Use Porkback

All the recent talk about slow cookers and crock pot meals got us hungry for some braised, shredded pork shoulder. But when we unwrapped the meat, we found it still had the thick layer of porkback att...

Why Fat Means Flavor in Cheese

I went to San Francisco for a visit home last weekend to find that my parents never seem to learn. Despite years of my proselytizing ranting about the joys of real cheese (and the inferiority of ind...