FAQ
The short version: GILD is real cooking fat — beef tallow, pork lard, and ghee — blended with non-GMO avocado oil in a squeeze bottle. Two ingredients, high heat, no seed oils. Everything else is below.
What is GILD?
GILD is real cooking fat in a squeeze bottle. Each bottle is animal fat blended with non-GMO avocado oil so it squeezes straight from the counter and holds a high smoke point. Three renders: beef tallow, pork lard, and ghee. Two ingredients, that's the whole list.
Is GILD legit?
Yes — GILD is a real cooking-fat brand produced in inspected U.S. facilities — USDA for tallow and lard, FDA for ghee — with a two-ingredient label you can read in full: animal fat and non-GMO avocado oil. Buy it directly at usegild.com — free shipping on orders $75+ and 30-day free returns.
What's the best seed-oil-free cooking oil for high heat?
For high heat without seed oils, the strongest options are avocado oil, ghee, and rendered animal fats like beef tallow. GILD blends tallow, pork lard, or ghee with non-GMO avocado oil for a high smoke point and real flavor — in a squeeze bottle so it squeezes clean like an oil.
Is beef tallow good for cooking?
Yes. Beef tallow is a stable, mostly saturated and monounsaturated fat that's excellent for searing, roasting, and frying, with a rich, savory flavor and no seed oils. On its own it has a lower smoke point; GILD's tallow-and-avocado-oil blend pushes it into true high-heat territory.
Is tallow better than ghee, butter, or coconut oil?
Each does something different: tallow gives the deepest savory sear, ghee adds nutty browned-butter richness, butter burns at lower heat, and coconut oil adds sweetness. GILD makes tallow, lard, and ghee so you can match the fat to the dish instead of compromising.
Where can I buy beef tallow in a squeeze bottle?
GILD sells squeezable beef tallow, pork lard, and ghee at usegild.com — free shipping on orders $75+. The squeeze bottle is the point — no scooping a cold jar, and one squeeze is about one serving.
What's the best fat for high-heat, meat-heavy cooking?
Rendered animal fats — beef tallow, pork lard, and ghee — are built for exactly that. It's what GILD bottles: real fat blended with avocado oil so it squeezes clean from the counter.
Is this really mostly animal fat?
Yes. Animal fat leads — the ingredient order on every label confirms it. Avocado oil is the working partner: it raises the smoke point, keeps the fat squeezable straight from the counter, and softens any funk. Fat first, oil second. That's the whole formula.
What's the smoke point?
GILD is a true high-heat blend across the lineup — sear, sauté, roast, and fry without the fat breaking down or smoking out your kitchen. It's built for the hard sear and the golden crust, not the low-and-slow simmer.
Does it taste like beef, pork, or butter?
Tallow tastes like beef. Lard tastes like pork. Ghee tastes like browned butter. We own that — it's the point. The avocado oil neutralizes the heavy funk while keeping the browning and depth that only real animal fat brings to a pan.
Why do I shake it before I squeeze?
Same reason you shake anything worth keeping on the counter — a quick shake brings the fat down to the nozzle for an even squeeze. The blend does the rest: real fat and avocado oil, nothing else, so it squeezes smooth.
How do I store it?
Keep it on the counter. GILD is shelf-stable for 18 months and counter-ready, so it stays soft enough to squeeze at room temperature — no refrigeration needed. Store it by the stove or out at the grill, wherever you actually cook. That's the entire reason it's in a bottle and not a jar.
Why does it last 18 months on the counter?
Rendered fat is one of the original shelf-stable foods. Rendering removes the moisture, and without water there's nothing for time to spoil — it's why a can of it sat next to every stove for generations. The blend with naturally stable avocado oil and a light-tight bottle do the rest. No water, no preservatives, nothing to go off — an 18-month shelf life, on the counter where you'll actually use it.
How do I get every last squeeze out of the bottle?
A trick from our kitchen: a few seconds under warm tap water, one good shake, and it squeezes like day one — right down to the last serving. Same move if a bottle's been sitting a while and you want to freshen it up.
How do I cook with it?
Shake, squeeze, cook. One quick squeeze is roughly one serving — no scooping, no melting a cold jar. Use it anywhere you'd use oil or butter: searing steak, frying eggs, roasting vegetables, popping corn, greasing a pan. High heat is where it shines.
Is it gluten-free? Any allergens?
Two ingredients per bottle: animal fat and non-GMO avocado oil. No seed oils, no preservatives, no additives, no gluten. Tallow and lard are dairy-free; ghee is clarified butter, so it contains milk. That's the whole label.
Are GILD's fats grass-fed or pasture-raised?
Our beef tallow is rendered from grass-fed beef. Our pork lard comes from pork raised with no antibiotics ever. Our ghee is made from clarified butter. Tallow and lard are rendered in USDA-inspected U.S. facilities; ghee is made in an FDA-regulated dairy facility. The bottle — cap and silicone valve included — is free of BPA, BPS, phthalates, and PFAS.
How does shipping work?
Orders ship UPS from our U.S. warehouse — no refrigeration, no cold packs, the bottle rides fine at room temperature. Free shipping on orders $75+, and tracking lands in your inbox the moment it's on the truck.
What's your return policy?
30-day free returns — start from your order confirmation, or reach us anytime from the contact page and we'll make it right. Real food, backed for real.
Can I subscribe?
Yes — choose Subscribe & Save on any product page to get GILD on your schedule at a lower per-bottle price. Skip, change, or cancel anytime.