Dos is a simple concept: work with farmers to create healthy packaged foods using local ingredients with nutrient dense qualities!
And in doing so, we’ve reinvented a category that has become inherently unhealthy and harmful, but something we all love to do: snacking!
Fats are the foundation of Dos Foods. And fats are healthy!
Let’s Talk Tallow!
Tallow is refined beef fat. It’s refined to remove impurities and in doing so, creates a fatty, nutrient dense cooking ingredient!
And we use it to fry potatoes at 365 degrees Fahrenheit, which is uncommon in snacking.
Most fried foods are fried in an industrial waste product: seed oils. Seed oils are polyunsaturated fatty acids, high in omega-6s, and difficult for the body to break down and dispose of.
Tallow is high in omega-3 fatty acids, a natural energy source and the key to the structure of every cell wall in the body.
Our Potatoes!
Did you know that McDonald’s french fries were fried in tallow? America’s most famous snack was once fried in beef fat, and the taste and nutritional benefits were much better!
McDonald’s uses Idaho potatoes, and so do we!
Our potatoes are American grown, full of energy, fiber, vitamins, and minerals! We slice thin, soak in ice, fry in tallow and flavor with real ingredients.
Pure Salt!
We source the purest, most nutritious dense salt on earth from an underground, 200 year-old Ogallala Aquifer in West Texas!
Our salt is 100% free of microplastics, but we test for it anyways, with a gourmet taste, and 84 essential minerals including potassium, magnesium, and calcium.
Farmer Sam!
This is my friend, Sam Moffett – the founder and farmer of Shirttail Creek, a regenerative farm in Brenham, Texas.
For years I’ve purchased his eggs, beef, and bone broth from the Austin downtown SFC Farmers’ Market. Sam is incredibly affable, and our friendship formed with our first handshake.
In the winter of 2023, when most farmers’ crops became barren, Sam’s offering continued to flourish. He presented me with a 2oz jar of tallow, refined beef fat, and encouraged me to cook with it.
I was slightly familiar with tallow, primarily as something I greased my cast iron with prior to searing a steak. My lack of experience led to a cast iron full of tallow, an inch high, and a boil started shortly thereafter.
It was too much tallow for a proper steak sear, however the thought of frying hit me like a hot pan!
My last fried food must’ve been 5 years ago, avoiding nasty seed oils like the plague they represented. However, as a Texan, I often imagined a plate of fried chicken and potatoes.
Oh, potatoes!
That Saturday, Sam and I chip chatted – discussing the possibility of creating a tallow fried potato chip company, because everyone loves chips, but no one should consume seed oils!
We were beyond keen, and after involving the illustrious Myles Snider of 80/20 Cooking, we began slicing and frying potatoes in Sam’s grass-fed tallow at Shirttail Creek Farm.
Shirttail Creek now serves as our headquarters, with team lunches sourced from the farm, cooked in tallow, with Sam, Myles and myself all around the table.
Tallow isn’t just an alternative to harmful seed oils, it’s a nutrient dense whole food. The amount of sun on our faces, the quality of our sleep, and the number of whole foods we eat will determine the strength and wellbeing of our bodies and minds.
Dos is our representation of Farm to Fryer.
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This is Dos!
A sweet and salty soul taken from us too soon. All dogs go to heaven and Dos lives on just as she left us, all that and a bag of chips!