New Year’s Resolution
Giggle: “Make TG healthy again… Fry mine in tallow!”
That Guy oversteps his way into 2025, bringing his new year’s resolution with him. As always, he means well but causes chaos. Part of his Make TG Healthy Again resolution is to avoid seed oils. So, he brings tallow to Chef Greasy, demanding he cook TG’s food in it, while others eat seed oil fried food. Dearie saves herself this time, refusing her order.
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Gab: Foodies Superhero – That Guy!
That Guy has always made us giggle. And in 2025 he will become a cartoon superhero to help educate foodies on ingredients and processes that we likely should avoid, while continuing to bring us a banquet of belly laughs.
It is fun to have TG as my partner! I was writing about GMOs before most people heard of them. I wrote cover stories on GMOs and had a column, “Pure” in a local print mag. And I fought the good fight for GMO labeling. One of these seed oils put me in the hospital twice. Today, Non-GMO and organic labels protect consumers to a degree, but not entirely. For example, organic seed oils are still seed oils processed with chemicals and industrial machinery. Now I read every label because most organic foods have ingredients that I cannot eat, nor will I feed to my family. To learn more about seed oils, I recommend starting your research with the history of cottonseed oil and Crisco, which was originally derived from cottonseed oil, manufactured via a chemical process, and used to make soap and candles. Its invention and marketing changed the way America cooked and what it consumed. It led us here.
Goods: Tallow, Ghee, Butter
Tallow is the pure rendered fat from a finished beef, perfect for frying. It is unlike lard, which is rendered pork fat.
Ghee is clarified butter. It has a higher smoke point than butter so it will not burn and smoke as easily as butter. Butter can burn at 350 degrees, yet ghee can withstand heat up to 485 degrees. Ghee is perfect for sautéing and can be used to fry foods.
Butter includes the fat and protein of churned cream, unlike margarine that is a blend of oils, predominately unsaturated fat. Include butter in cooking and slather it over your baked goods. Everything is better with butter!