More Perth cooks, cafes and butchers are cutting industrial seed oils from their kitchens, swapping them for tallow, butter, olive oil or coconut oil. This guide explains what these suppliers typically offer, how they sell, rough price ranges and the questions worth asking before you buy.
Perth-owned low-carb meal-prep delivery: 'No fillers. No seed oils. No shortcuts' — whole-food meals from premium WA ingredients, delivered metro-wide on Tuesdays. Started as an Instagram food blog in 2018.
Gwelup Fish & Chips is a neighbourhood fish and chip shop in Perth's northern suburbs, cooking its fryers with beef tallow. A modern take on the local chippy, it puts a distinctive spin on a classic favourite.
Rivervale Fish & Chips in Perth fries everything in 100% beef tallow. It's a favourite among locals seeking seed-oil-free fish and chips.
A regional south-coast cafe that cooks with butter and air-fries its fish, chips and chicken schnitzel rather than deep-frying in seed oil, with only the crumbed sausages deep-fried. Gluten-free options are available.
Grass-fed/organic butcher rendering 'Little Fatty' grass-fed beef tallow in small batches in Perth (500g jars, no additives); keto/paleo/carnivore-friendly; delivers Perth metro and regional WA.
Keto-focused butcher selling grass-finished meats; renders their own beef tallow, lard and butter-based products, sausages with no added starch; uses beef tallow, butter, pork lard and olive oil only. Gluten-free options.
Family farm (est. 1850s) selling grass-fed, hormone/antibiotic-free beef plus rendered beef tallow in 300g blocks, jars, bottles and 2L/10L bulk; also bone broth. Delivers Perth-wide with farmers-market pickups. Second phone (08) 6186 5450.
Multi-generation (174+ years) WA farming family selling grass-fed and finished beef, bone broth, bulk grass-fed beef tallow for cooking/carnivore diets, and tallow-based skincare. Perth delivery, collection Tue/Thu, shop open Fridays.
"Seed-oil-free" is a kitchen practice rather than a formal certification. It generally means the cook or producer avoids industrial seed and vegetable oils — canola, sunflower, soybean, cottonseed, rice bran and similar — and uses fats like beef tallow, butter, ghee, extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil instead.
Around Perth you'll find a few different types of business making this choice:
This page features a range of these businesses, including Hail the Kale, Gwelup Fish & Chips, Rivervale Fish & Chips, Green Eats Cafe at Walpole, The Naked Butcher Perth, Meat and Mains, Gingin Grass Fed, Surfing Lizard, North Beach Gourmet Butcher, Baldivis Square Fish and Chips and Little Hawk Freo. Ratings and review counts shown on the listings give a quick sense of how established each one is.
The way you buy depends on the type of supplier:
If you want to cook seed-oil-free at home, buying tallow or dripping from a butcher or beef producer is usually the cheapest and most flexible option.
Prices vary widely by supplier, portion size and quality, and change over time — treat the figures below as a rough guide only, not a quote.
Always confirm current pricing directly with the supplier before ordering.
Because "seed-oil-free" isn't independently audited, transparency matters more than marketing. A few things to look for:
Before you buy, a quick message or phone call can clear up the important details:
Asking about sauces, batters and condiments is especially useful — a kitchen can fry in tallow but still use a seed-oil-based mayonnaise or dressing, so it pays to check the whole plate.
This guide describes what suppliers sell and how they describe their own practices. It doesn't make any health or therapeutic claims about seed-oil-free foods. If a particular diet matters to you for medical reasons, speak with a qualified health professional. Use this page as a directory to find and compare local options, then confirm the specifics with each supplier directly.
Or read the full seed-oil-free foods guide, or browse all Perth producers.
It generally means a kitchen or producer avoids industrial seed and vegetable oils — such as canola, sunflower, soybean and cottonseed — and cooks with fats like tallow, butter, ghee, olive oil or coconut oil instead. It's a kitchen practice, not an audited certification, so it's worth confirming with each supplier.
Several shops across the metro and outer suburbs market themselves as frying in tallow or dripping, including listings in Gwelup, Rivervale, Baldivis and Secret Harbour featured on this page. Ask each shop directly what fat they use and whether it's consistent across the menu.
As a rough guide, tallow-fried fish and chips often run $12–$25 a serve, prepared delivery meals around $12–$22 each, cafe mains $15–$30, and rendered tallow $8–$20 a jar. Grass-fed beef bulk packs can range from about $150 upward. Prices change, so confirm with the supplier.
Look for third-party certification such as ACO (Australian Certified Organic) or NASAA. Informal terms like 'spray-free' or 'chemical-free' aren't independently audited, so ask the supplier what they mean and whether they hold any certification.
Yes. Local butchers and grass-fed beef producers around Perth often sell rendered tallow or dripping alongside their meat, sometimes via farm gate or metro pickup. It's usually the most flexible and affordable way to cook seed-oil-free at home.