Wet rendering involves heating animal fat with steam to extract oil, which is then separated from water. Dry rendering differs in that it uses steam heating without water. Wet rendering is preferred for food oils to avoid ester and soap formation that can occur during dry rendering's splitting process. Refining oil involves alkali refining to neutralize free fatty acids, degumming to remove lecithin, bleaching to remove impurities using bleaching earth, deodorization to vaporize and remove odors by suction heating, and wintering by cooling oils below winter temperatures.