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Mandy Riddle

Mandy Riddle

Guest on the Charm Life podcast, a community food and farm radio show based at Charm Farm Market & Butcher in Elkins, West Virginia, appearing on the episode segment about rendering beef fat into tallow.

Sep 24, 2026

18:29
Next, mountain bike coach Mandy Riddle and cosmetologist Leah offer less hirsute uses for tallow.
18:36
So I pick up the tallow here from the Charm Farm and take it home.
18:42
And then I do about four renderings of the tallow.
18:45
I do two wet renders, two dry renders.
18:49
So when I wet render, I melt the tallow in a big roasting pot and add water and then take it out and... put it in the refrigerator to cool and then once it comes back to solid again then I scrape any kind of impurities off the bottom of the tallow.
19:08
So I do the wet render twice and then I put it back in again for two more times without water.
19:14
That takes a whole day typically by the time it melts and then solidifies and then you know it has to sit to cool for a while.
20:20
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