You can use The Bearded Butcher Blend on just about everything - including popcorn! For a delicious twist, try seasoning your popcorn with The Bearded Butcher Butter Blend. It combines rich, natural butter flavor with the original Bearded Butcher Seasoning for a perfectly balanced taste. Toss it on your movie-night popcorn and enjoy a bold, buttery upgrade.
Beef tallow is valued in cooking for its high smoke point and rich, savory flavor, especially when compared to butter. With a smoke point of roughly 400–420°F, beef tallow can handle high-heat cooking methods such as searing, frying, and roasting without burning or breaking down. Butter, on the other hand, begins to smoke at much lower temperatures around 300–350°F. This is due to the presence of milk solids, making it more prone to scorching. Because of this heat stability, beef tallow produces less smoke and fewer burnt flavors during cooking, allowing foods to develop a clean, well-browned exterior.
Cooking with beef tallow is often viewed as a healthier option than seed oils because it is more stable at high heat and less likely to oxidize during cooking. Its fat profile is dominated by saturated and monounsaturated fats, which are generally more heat-resistant than the polyunsaturated fats common in many seed oils. Because tallow is traditionally rendered and minimally processed, it also avoids the refining, bleaching, and deodorizing steps used for many seed oils, making it a more whole-food fat choice for high-temperature cooking.
Ingredients:
- 2 Tbsp Beef Tallow
- 1/2 Cup Corn Kernels
- 2 Tbsp Melted Butter
- 1 tsp of The Bearded Butcher Butter Blend
Instructions:
- Heat the beef tallow in a large pot over medium heat.
- Add the popcorn kernels and cover with a mesh pot lid cover.
- Shake the pot occasionally as the kernels pop.
- Once popping slows, remove from heat and pour popcorn into a bowl.
- Drizzle with melted butter.
- Sprinkle generously with The Bearded Butcher Butter Blend and toss to coat.
That’s it!
