the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
You shouldn’t pour it down the drain for obvious reasons but putting it in a jar is weird af. Is there some actual reason for the jar that I don’t know? Whenever I have to do the dishes and there is a lot of grease in a pan I just put a few papertowels (if needed) in the trash and pour the grease in there. When I’m done with the dishes I take the trash out.
Depends on how much grease you have— always stored bacon grease in glass jars to use later for greasing pans and given bacony flavor. Secondly, grease pours easily and is liquid when hot, but because it’s hot you can’t pour it into the trash, or wipe it clean with paper towels as mentioned. You have to let it cool which means it becomes more of a mess.
Yes but hot grease can damage plumbing and cool fast enough to cause clogging over time. Pour it down the sink is totally fine, but you gotta run hot water with it
In Germany you can get a free bucket for collecting grease at your local recycling center. When its full, you exchange it for an empty one.
I think that is specific for your town/city. We don’t have that in my city, nor in other cities I lived in before.
But tbh, if you are not deepfrying a lot of stuff, letting it cool down, whiping the oil out with a paper towel is normally enough. If this isn’t enough, people normally use old glass jar and throw it into the Restmüll (this is also how our local waste company tells us to do it). Naturally, there are different solutions available for industrial cases.
Really? Thats pretty cool fr. Is that offered to dissuade people from pouring it down the drain?
Honestly never heard of that, but I’m also a bit lost in translation. Does this have any relevance to a person that only uses olive and sunflower oil and doesn’t eat any meat?
Fatty meat will result in a lot of grease that if poured down the sink will solidify on the walls of your drain pipes.
But if it is only that, a few paper towels should be enough to catch the grease.
Fuck that noice! Sometimes I buy bacon only because my fat jar is empty. That shit is gold for cooking with.
Only poor it down the drain if you rent! Never when you own!
Yeah great. When it clogs up the sewage, tell that to the workes who have to clean your shit up.
that’s what the water bill covers, is it not?
Did you downvote your own comment?
I don’t like self upvoting
lol
Splash it in the face of the people who piss you off, pour it down their pants when they aren’t looking, set the pan on their chest when they’re asleep and set their hand in the grease. I DON’T CARE.
Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don’t tell me how to live 🦅🇺🇸
If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.
Every time you tell me I’ll eat another piece of bacon, if I die it’s directly your fault. Check and mate!
It’s a little weird that anyone still thinks a joke that was overdone 30 years ago, would do anything other than make you sound unhinged today. “Tell me not to do a thing that causes suffering, will you? Well what if I cause even more suffering then?!”
I dunno, cartoon villain isn’t a good look in real life.
They are allowed to joke about that because your comment is equally as overdone and unhinged.
As if you don’t have plant based grease.
He isn’t wrong about me being unhinged, he is wrong though about it not being a good look.
Also I bought a pack of bacon from Costco for $21 I broke it down and ended up with enough bacon to last a month, i could care less about saving a pig or myself but fuck I’ll save the money.
Oddly enough, this “clogged heart” “fact” is slowly being debunked by individual groups of scientists who are not sponsored by any food, tobacco or pharma industry.
I might have the urge to look for this paper I read about 2 years ago. Long story short: the unsaturated fats bind with sugar to form the small cholesterol molecules that can lead to blockages, while saturated fats form large cholesterol molecules that are used as a means of transport on the blood.
But nevertheless more research has to be done.
No, it is not being debunked. People are just being fooled by the constant onslaught of industry-backed disinformation. The role of high saturated fat to unsaturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease is one of the most thoroughly tested areas of nutritional health, and the consensus from real experts is that saturated fat intake absolutely progresses cvd.
https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-smart/fats/saturated-fats
"There’s a lot of conflicting information about saturated fats. Should I eat them or not?
The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fats to less than 6% of total calories. Saturated fats are found in butter, cheese, red meat, other animal-based foods and tropical oils. Decades science has proven that saturated fats can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease.
The more important thing to remember is the overall dietary pattern. Saturated fats are just one piece of the puzzle. Eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains is a way to achieve an overall healthy eating pattern.
When you hear about the latest “diet of the day” or a new or odd-sounding theory about food, consider the source. The American Heart Association makes dietary recommendations only after carefully considering the latest scientific evidence."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-about-fats-bad-and-good
(…) “Is saturated fat bad for you? A diet rich in saturated fats can drive up total cholesterol, and tip the balance toward more harmful LDL cholesterol, which prompts blockages to form in arteries in the heart and elsewhere in the body. For that reason, most nutrition experts recommend limiting saturated fat to under 10% of calories a day.”
(…) “Eating polyunsaturated fats in place of saturated fats or highly refined carbohydrates reduces harmful LDL cholesterol and improves the cholesterol profile. It also lowers triglycerides.”
And I’m choosing to focus on meta-analyses here to highlight the sheer volume of studies that have, and continue to be done on this subject.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39523824/
“Results: Fourteen studies were included in the systematic review and seven in the meta-analysis. Our results showed an association between OO consumption and reduction in all-cause mortality (HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.80-0.91), cardiovascular mortality (HR: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.76-0.93) and cancer mortality (HR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.86-0.93). Conclusions: Consumption of OO particularly reduces cardiovascular mortality (16%), followed by all-cause mortality (15%) and cancer mortality (11%) in the adult population. However, further studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanisms.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30006369/
“Fifty-four trials were included in the NMA. Safflower oil had the highest SUCRA value for LDL-C (82%) and TC (90%), followed by rapeseed oil (76% for LDL-C, 85% for TC); whereas, palm oil (74%) had the highest SUCRA value for TG, and coconut oil (88%) for HDL-C. Safflower, sunflower, rapeseed, flaxseed, corn, olive, soybean, palm, and coconut oil as well beef fat were more effective in reducing LDL-C (-0.42 to -0.23 mmol/l) as compared with butter. Despite limitations in these data, our NMA findings are in line with existing evidence on the metabolic effects of fat and support current recommendations to replace high saturated-fat food with unsaturated oils.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27434027/
“This meta-analysis of randomised controlled feeding trials provides evidence that dietary macronutrients have diverse effects on glucose-insulin homeostasis. In comparison to carbohydrate, SFA, or MUFA, most consistent favourable effects were seen with PUFA, which was linked to improved glycaemia, insulin resistance, and insulin secretion capacity.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35866510/
“The results of this review suggest that CO consumptionhas beneficial effects on LDL-c, TC, and LDL-c/HDL-c ratio compared to OO. Therefore, its replacement with OO can have cardioprotective impacts.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37968628/
“Our findings indicate that a shift from animal-based (e.g., red and processed meat, eggs, dairy, poultry, butter) to plant-based (e.g., nuts, legumes, whole grains, olive oil) foods is beneficially associated with cardiometabolic health and all-cause mortality.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36343558/
“Prospective studies supported a beneficial association of olive oil consumption with CVD, T2D and all-cause mortality, but they did not show any association with cancer risk.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32428300/
“The findings of this updated review suggest that reducing saturated fat intake for at least two years causes a potentially important reduction in combined cardiovascular events. Replacing the energy from saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat or carbohydrate appear to be useful strategies, while effects of replacement with monounsaturated fat are unclear. The reduction in combined cardiovascular events resulting from reducing saturated fat did not alter by study duration, sex or baseline level of cardiovascular risk, but greater reduction in saturated fat caused greater reductions in cardiovascular events.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25995283/
“Palm oil consumption results in higher LDL cholesterol than do vegetable oils low in saturated fat and higher HDL cholesterol than do trans fat-containing oils in humans. The effects of palm oil on blood lipids are as expected on the basis of its high saturated fat content, which supports the reduction in palm oil use by replacement with vegetable oils low in saturated and trans fat.”
Bro, nobody cares that much in this thread. You can be right and still be the jerk
Just add oil solidifier so you can throw the solidified oil into the compost or trash bin. Like FryAway or just buy the original Japanese versions which FryAway is a copy of like Katameru Tempuru
I wish they carried it in the markets here. I just looked it up, looks like it’s just Steric Acid. You can buy a whole pound for $15… gonna five that a try.
am keen to know your results! please post :)
It’s in my cart. waiting to get a few more things before I push send.
I’m hopeful from this: https://www.consumerreports.org/environment-sustainability/is-fryaway-oil-solidifier-best-way-to-dispose-of-cooking-oil-a1273485273/
ooh looks likely… great supporting post! not a fan of the approach where a company hides facts “we used established science and knowledge to productise a thing, but we like profit so we’ll obscure the science”
Other than some odd specialized surfactants, most cleaning stuff is soap, alcohol, ammonia, bleach, vinegar, or water. You just have to know what not to mix together (don’t mix bleach and ammonia) and not care that it doesn’t smell like robotic lemons.
I also use sodium hydroxide in certain cases to get grease out of filters and such, turns oil into soap.
Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.
Rent goes up, oil goes down
That’s what I always say
Please don’t pour fat down the drain. Starving children in Africa could use that bacon grease!
So around Friday of last week, my ground level apartment started to have a weird, foul, smell. It got worse and worse, until Monday morning, when my toilet stopped flushing and the drains took forever to clear.
By then the smell was horrid, like a mixture of skunk, piss, and decay. Thankfully for me, my toilet suddenly started working for a couple of hours Monday night, but then stopped working by Tuesday morning. Around 3pm on Tuesday, they finished repairing the sewage pipe, but the smell lingers on.
This also happened maybe 6-8 months ago, and it took 7-10 days for the smell to finally dissipate. I expect it will take that long this time as well.
Judging by the notice left on all of our doors, that threatened to charge the person or persons responsible for flushing “flushable” wipes and cigarette butts (???) as well as dumping oil down the drain, our sewage pipe must have been completely blocked up. Without inspecting each unit, I doubt they will be able to assign blame, so whoever did it will likely get away with it.
I have nothing to worry about, as I never pour oil down the drain, I don’t smoke cigarettes, and I only ever use toilet paper in the bathroom. Whoever invented “flushable” wipes deserve a punch in the fucking face. Now my apartment smells absolutely terrible, and likely will continue to do so for a week or so.
For the love of god, do not dump oil down the drain! It’s so easy to pour it into a jar, then use a paper towel to wipe the rest of the oil out of the pot/pan. It makes actually cleaning the cookware that much easier as well.
Counterpoint: if you rent, put everything down the drain you can. Stop taking your garbage out, just blend it and down the drain it goes. Everything goes down the drain. It’s like a magic hole that erases all of your sins!!
I’m with in you in spirits, but then I’d have to live with consequential stink of my own actions.
It’s not about keeping grease out of the drain, it’s about not wasting cooking oil. As a Brit I recommend frying your whole breakfast in bacon dripping. Especially the mushrooms and tomatoes.
British breakfast is okay. But there’s a reason non of the top 10 restaurants in Great Britain is British.
Because you don’t go to a fancy restaurant to eat breakfast?
No-one in the UK goes to a restaurant for breakfast
I would occasionally go here after a particularly heavy night.
I started pouring mine in to an ash bucket I use for the open fire. The ash soaks it up and it all gets thrown out in to the bin
Isn’t this how soap is made?
You could throw it into the fire and get some extra warmth.
We had a fireplace at my parents’ house, we used to burn grease and used oil all the time, until we had our first maintenance. Let’s say the chimney sweep wasn’t amused
Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
I don’t give a fuck, it’s not my house and as soon as they jack up the rent we’re out of here
I might care if I ever own a home, but I really don’t think it will ever happen
It fucks up the whole neighborhood dummy
That may be true, but if the collective society decided to make housing unaffordable for the younger generation then they’ve decided to live with the inevitable shenanigans.
Then break tooth picks off in all the door locks, smash the windows or drill holes in the fuckin roof but causing chaos for your neighborhood is whack
It’s kinda not their neighborhood is the point
Plenty of people who still own their own home who also live in that neighborhood.
It also fucks up the main plumbing system right down to the water treatment facility and while there, it fucks that too.
If your taxes pay for wastewater management, you’re fucking yourself up.
If you pay in addition to your taxes, you’re fucking yourself up.
If you have your own septic tank, you’re fucking yourself up.
If it flows to the river directly and you enjoy clean nature, you’re fucking yourself up.
If it flows to the river directly and your taxes pay for nature maintenance, you’re fucking yourself up.Grease down the drain is fucking yourself up and you deserve it. You can not win with it unless you hate everything around you and don’t pay taxes… It will come back to bite you.
Good. Disrupt the system. Until young people can purchase homes at similar rates to healthy countries then young people should escalate civil disobedience.
Lol They’re just going I raise the rent even more, to cover for your disruption.
Yup, the convenience if throwing grease down the drain is absolutely nullified by taking a half day to deal with a plumber/landlord/handyman because you can’t flush a turd. Let it cool, pour it into a soda bottle.
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
It helps the eels get a better connection with the car battery. You want to help them recharge dont you?
My mum used to have a lard jar that was a mix of concealed bacon fat and god knows what else. Not a fan.
Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking
And probably buying shitty meats for starters.
Yeah well only a shit cook would think that oil coming off means bad meat.
I know that people don’t know fuck all about cooking, yourself included.
