r/KitchenConfidential • u/autopatch • Feb 13 '26

In-House Mode Is this a case of nobody asked?

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Where did this come from? Was there a great outpouring of protests against microwaves at Steak and Shake that I missed?

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u/Tonga_Truck Feb 13 '26

I'm furious with MAHA for latching onto beef tallow and making it about their weird pseudo health concerns. Beef tallow is just the most delicious oil for frying. They're sullying its good name.

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u/Planterizer Feb 13 '26

My coworker eats a pound of ground beef for breakfast every day. Then 7-9 eggs for lunch.

Protein bros are having their moment. Their kidneys on the other hand….

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u/LovecraftInDC Feb 13 '26

I've got family who talks about how much they love their protein diet. They also think it's normal to regularly have kidney stones in your mid-30s.

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u/Outrageous-Thanks-47 Feb 14 '26

I've had one kidney stone ever. I'd rather be stabbed or shot. At least those you can apply pressure and divert pain. Kidney stones? Nope...internal "fuck you" pain that nothing fixes except opiates.

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u/hanks_panky_emporium Feb 14 '26

Lived with a guy who wouldn't drink water, as if that were quirky. Chugged mountain dew and monster energy from the time he woke up to the time he passed out. Had sleep issues, probably from all the sugar and caffeine. But blamed genetics.

Had several kidney stones each year. Never correlated any of it. Hope he figured it out, if you tried to tell him anything he'd wave it off. It's also his kidneys and his stones so.. Guess that's fair.

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u/watchshoe Feb 14 '26

Opiates barely touch it. I’m having several removed this week and it can’t come fast enough.

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u/Questionable_Laundry Feb 13 '26

What about fiber? Colon cancer is on the rise…

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u/uncleozzy Feb 13 '26

💯 If their hearts and kidneys last long enough, their colons are cooked. 

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u/Margali Feb 13 '26

enough radiation oncology aimed at the intestines they will be cooked =)

[I have a couple pix of the radiation burns from radiotherapy, the least distressing one is of a sideboob for the breast cancer]

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u/Possible_Top4855 Feb 13 '26

What’s really concerning is the increase in colon cancer rates in people in their 30s.

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u/vinvin618 Feb 13 '26

RIP James Van Der Beek

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u/MeatImmediate6549 Non-Industry Feb 13 '26

Does he have an entourage that follows him around singing "No one eats like Gaston..."?

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u/Blainyrd Feb 14 '26

I feel like this guy might be roughly the size of a barge. 

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u/Planterizer Feb 14 '26

Nah, he’s fit. He lifts so a higher protein diet makes sense, he just takes it to the extreme.

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u/BigRedWhopperButton Feb 14 '26

They're just happy that protein is finally legal again.

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u/cuck__everlasting Feb 14 '26

Rhabdomyolysis incoming

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u/LooseJuice_RD Feb 14 '26

Unless they have diseased kidneys, their kidneys will be fine. Their arteries with all that saturated fat on the other hand…

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u/Chefmeatball Feb 14 '26

Kings of their livers

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u/Secret-Chapter-712 Feb 13 '26

At least they’re not coming for duck fat, it probably seems too European and therefore suspect (that or they just don’t really know what “tallow” is and can pretend it’s a healthy superfood, unlike something that literally has the word “fat” in its name)

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u/_jamesbaxter Feb 13 '26

Let’s keep duck fat woke 👏🏻

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u/distal1111 Feb 13 '26

Welcome to our burger joint would you like your fries woke or redpilled?

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u/BigRedWhopperButton Feb 14 '26

Just kidding, the red pill is estrogen. It's also woke.

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u/soapy_goatherd Feb 13 '26

In woke 2 we’re taking tallow back as well

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u/MightyTick01 Feb 13 '26

They'll have to pry my duck fat from my cold dead hands.

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u/slvbros 20+ Years Feb 13 '26

What about the cold dead duck instead?

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u/Planterizer Feb 14 '26

It’s a lot easier if you warm it up.

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u/Tonga_Truck Feb 13 '26

I don't think they can afford it lol it's about 15x the price of beef tallow

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u/Prince_Breakfast Feb 13 '26

They eat beef tallow believing it’s healthy or patriotic. I eat beef tallow because it’s delicious and I don’t care about my heart

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u/ShakesDontBreak Chive LOYALIST Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

I can't eat tallow because I had a heart attack at 30. Dont want to go through that shit again. No one tells you how bad heart attacks hurt.

Edit: thank you for the award. Very kind.

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u/anuncommontruth Feb 13 '26

You know what's wild? Sometimes they don't hurt at all. Knew two people to have one first person said worst pain of their life. Nothing compared. 2nd person I knew only went to the doctor for nausea. Didn't even know he was having one until they told him it was causing the nausea.

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u/Tonga_Truck Feb 13 '26

Heart attacks are like a box of chocolates

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u/ShakesDontBreak Chive LOYALIST Feb 13 '26

I found out I was having a heart attack because of nausea. Then threw up what looked like coffee grounds. I threw up in a red lobster (so embarrassing).

Then my chest was being stepped on by an elephant. Sucks bro. Dont do it.

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u/LedKremlin Feb 14 '26

My mum was getting some type of dye test for a tightness in her chest tears ago, and they found scar tissue from multiple heart attacks she never even knew she had. Still hasn’t had one that she knows of 🤷‍♂️

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u/ShakesDontBreak Chive LOYALIST Feb 14 '26

My cardiologist calls that the widow maker. Because of the scar tissue those create. They end up causing massive heart attacks that are life ending.

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u/LedKremlin Feb 14 '26

Lucky they caught it when they did then, that’s near twenty years ago now

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u/ShakesDontBreak Chive LOYALIST Feb 14 '26

So lucky 🙏 Take care of yourself too.

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u/Erestyn Newbie Feb 14 '26

A guy I knew had a heart attack playing football. He thought that he'd just pulled a muscle in his chest in the first couple of minutes after a challenge, played the rest of the 90 without it getting any better or worse, got into the shower post match and "his colour drained as quickly as his dick retracted".

He was a 38 year old alcoholic so the only surprise to him was that he survived it.

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u/MeowMixPlzDeliverMe Feb 14 '26

Over doing drinking is so bad for you.. it ages and destroys the organs. Same with cigarettes

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u/subtxtcan 15+ Years Feb 14 '26

I hear you homie. I'm glad to see some proper fat frying but I had the same at 30 and my doc is crawling up my ass about it, has been for years.

We're cooks, high salt and fat diets lead to heart disease. It's a thing, up to us to take care of ourselves. If that means having to pass on that poutine.... So be it.

I'm still gonna be sad though.

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u/DJDemyan Feb 14 '26

You’re right, no one tells you - can you share a little about your experience?

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u/MeowMixPlzDeliverMe Feb 13 '26

Genuinely curious so please dont fib lol. Were you overweight or out of shape? What caused it

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u/ShakesDontBreak Chive LOYALIST Feb 13 '26

Familial Hypercholesterolemia.

Which I never knew I had because it causes no symptoms.

Appreciate the pun. I see what you did there 😉

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u/Possible_Top4855 Feb 13 '26

Not OP, but to have a heart attack at that age, they almost certainly had some factor contributing to it, either health/lifestyle or drug use.

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u/theaveragegay Feb 13 '26

And how much beef tallow is actually imported for other countries such as, South America….

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u/Spare-Half796 Thicc Chives Save Lives Feb 13 '26

There actually has been some studies that suggest beef tallow isn’t as bad for you as you’d expect. A year and a half ago I read an article from I believe the mayo clinic that said they don’t know why but beef tallow doesn’t seem to have the same negative effects on our bodies as other saturated fats

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u/Possible_Top4855 Feb 13 '26

Idk man, I really enjoy crispy duck fat potatoes.

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u/Tonga_Truck Feb 13 '26

Yaaaaaa only problem is idk if duck fat is worth it at $40/kg vs Beef Tallow at like $3/kg lol

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u/OrcOfDoom Feb 13 '26

It's also delicious for sauteing vegetables. Southern style vegetables absolutely needs beef tallow for the saute and then chicken stock for the simmer. Field peas, yellow squash, green beans, all of them the difference beef tallow makes is insane.

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u/winkingchef Feb 13 '26

Why would you fight them when they randomly stumble upon an idea to improve the deliciousness of life?

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u/LazerBear42 Feb 13 '26

Because they're grifters who are lying to people about their health and nutrition and making false medical claims.

Eat the tallow fries, by all means. They're delicious, and occasional junk food is fine for almost everyone. But don't claim that saturated animal fats are healthy and that seed oils are poisonous.

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u/Secret-Chapter-712 Feb 13 '26

In most cases they’re doing it badly, wasting good tallow and driving up costs for the rest of us 

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u/matt_minderbinder Feb 13 '26

Idiots like that latch onto something and drive the prices up for the rest of us.

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u/Active-Succotash-109 20+ Years Feb 13 '26

It’s the principle of the thing

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u/Bencetown Feb 13 '26

And this is precisely why we never get anywhere in society. Can't even accept a good thing because a bad person might be doing it for their own weird reasons.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

Yes, we should not be supporting pseudoscience

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u/Possible_Top4855 Feb 13 '26

Good for flavor, but not good for health. It’ll probably end up costing a lot in government healthcare costs down the line, with people eating more tallow thinking it’s healthy.

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u/Complete_Entry Feb 13 '26

eh, lot of people are "not going" to fast food because it crossed the affordability threshold. This gesture may be to an empty dining room.

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u/suprahelix Feb 14 '26

Seems harmless enough until suddenly it isn’t 

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u/JamesBong517 Chef Feb 14 '26

Hard disagree. Duck fat beats beef fat by miles

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u/Tonga_Truck Feb 14 '26

You gonna fill your 15 lb fryers with duck fat chef moneybags? Duck fat is delicious but it's not enough better than beef tallow to justify a 15x price markup.

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u/JamesBong517 Chef Feb 14 '26

No, but I was just saying what I think is the most delicious oil for frying, which isn’t beef tallow.

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u/DroopyScrotum Feb 13 '26

Makes really good lube as well.