the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
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
the pipes can handle it
should*
Pipes are made for liquids. Congealed fat is not a liquid. Pipes should not be made to handle things that aren’t meant to go in them.
Whatever is downstream of my sink should be built to handle food waste. That must include fats. Not my fault if they half-assed it honestly. Build a better world next time.
Yes, it is your fault for thinking you know better than centuries of plumbing experience. Pull your head out of your ass and stop pouring grease and melted fat down the sink, you inept heathen.
Why should I give one single shit about any of this?
Because some random on the internet said so in a shitposting thread?
I pay taxes so they keep the goddamn gutters running, if they’re made badly and aren’t fit for purpose - wastewater from washing fucking dishes - just make them better.
It’s not rocket science, but the approach is the same - you don’t bitch about space being hard - you build better rockets, better fuels, better calculators for trajectories and so on.
If you that concerned with grease maybe consider taking a shower. I’d rather flush grease down the drain than my one life like some some of y’all.
Your ignorance is not only pathetic, but indicative of a massive ego. Have fun being a contemptable piece of shit through life. It won’t serve you well.
Just throw some dishwasher detergent down there once a month. It’ll be fine.
I once cut out a piece of pipe in some guys home, because it was all fucked. The pipe was suuuuper heavy and upon inspection it looked like someone poured concrete down there. It was very hard to clean, the guy had to hammer on it while having a pressure washer wash it out. As it turns out, his wife used multiple washing tabs in the machine to make it extra clean. She did that for over a decade.
Well she clearly wasn’t preheating her hot tap water.
/s
Don’t pour hot grease in a glass jar or it’ll shatter and spill hot grease all over your counter and then when you grab a flimsy piece of plastic from the recycling and try to push it on to stop the spill and the plastic collapses and hot grease goes all over your forearm and gives you 2nd degree burns and your floor is covered in broken glass you will regret it.
Eh, a small mason jar is tough enough to handle a few tablespoons of bacon grease or whatever without shattering. But sure, if you’ve got a lot of grease at once, let it cool down first (or better yet, refrigerate the pot roast or whatever it is you’ve made, so that you can just pull the grease off the top of the pot in one hardened puck).
Got any advice about tubes and if you get something stuck in one?
I’ve been pouring hot grease in glass jars for decades without having one shatter. You’re severely overestimating the risks
I may be speaking from experience. I only pour grease into cans and foil now.
It depends on where you’re from, glass jars/drinking glasses in Germany don’t shatter from thermal shock, but they do in the US.
I reflexively yelled at my boss once because he poured recently boiling water out of a glass and turned the cold faucet on to rinse it out while scrubbing, and I thought he was about to cut the shit out of his hand. He got contemplative for a moment and then said that he had forgotten that that used to happen in Afghanistan (where he was from), but it doesn’t happen in Germany.
Just putting oil in a few dozen times won’t shatter it. A few hundred cooling cycles might, but you change jars by then.
It won’t necessarily shatter it, but it absolutely can. I’ve done it with a jar I had washed the original product out of shortly beforehand. Just because it’s never happened to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
I guess it depends on the temperature of the oil, I pour when its still liquid, but less than boiling.
I pour when it’s hot to the touch, but not unpleasant, so probably around 50-60 C
And it still shattered?
I have had this happen once. Cold jar, didnt let the grease cool enough… was my bad. Same as if you’re going to put it into a metal can while its still really hot, make sure the can isnt sitting on something that will melt.
I think the best advice is “Dont pour the grease while its still hot enough to burn you”
That’s why I pour it into the jar in the sink.
That and I’m really messy and the sink is the easiest place to clean up spilled grease.
Are you… speaking from experience?
I use a Pyrex container if I want to safe the grease. Otherwise I make a bowl of aluminum foil, pour it into that, and toss it once it hardens.
Modern pyrex isnt any more heat resistant than any other soda glass, they switched in like the 90s. But regular glass is fine for grease, I use an old pasta sauce jar.
Holy shit it’s true! They no longer make “Pyrex” cookware out of borosilicate glass but instead soda lime glass.
Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.
It isn’t put in the jar to throw away, its put in the jar to cook more food with later
For maximum enjoyment, drink it directly from the jar. Preferably while warm.
And use for tortillas and savory pie crust.
When my grandma had “too much” of it she would mix it with seeds and put it out for the woodpeckers in winter
Bacon grease chocolate chip cookies…
I shit you not.
Fuck. It’s 2am and I’m so high. Why did I have to read this‽
How long does bacon grease last? How can I tell if it went bad? Does it last longer in the fridge?
You can freeze it!
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
They make ones with a mesh filter you pour it through
Fake news, I’ve never had bacon grease last that long. That’s why I’m not thin.
I can’t tell if people here are pouring their grease down the drain.
The answer is don’t. “It will be fine” for the person who told you that it will be fine, but it will absolutely fail for you. You know that by now. Also that guy is lying and already had to snake his drain but won’t tell you that.
Idk I’ve never had any issues.
Yet. It can take several years to build up
Yeah in many years never had a problem.
Since you seem to be stubborn and unwilling to accept friendly advice, here’s a wikipedia article on why It’s a problem
Can, pour the grease into a can. Glass is likely to energetically and spontaneously disassemble when temperature shock occurs.
Yeah you don’t pour it immediately. You wait for it to cool off a bit.
Pour it when it’s hot and you don’t have as much cleaning.
You can still get less cleaning pouring it warm. Won’t cause temperature shock on the glass.
Not using glass removes the necessity to wait. Therefore someone who got distracted doesn’t have to scrape congealed fat. Also no worries about dropping it and having grease and broken glass on the floor.
Excess coffee cups received as gifts work too.
Yeah I’ve never had one break
Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.
Obligatory response to this meme e’er time, “Sigh, if it’s on septic its massively expensive infrastructure the tenant will be held liable for 10/10 times, and will only render one less living space habitable. And if it’s on sewer it’s punishing the public’s wastewater treatment facility.”
Aand resume.
If it’s septic it’s whatever. Bigger issue if it’s not, then tax dollars are required to fix it, and it’s just wrecking infrastructure
Infrastructure that was torn from public control and privatised, ruined, and now begging for more tax money to fund their bonuses, you say?
Delightfully devilish!
… Are sewers private in your area? Must suck man
There’s not really “public” per se.
It’ll be handled by a private contractor owned by private equity that specializes in leeching taxpayer dollars same as everything. The tender will be won by those who can promise the local govt officials the best jobs at said private contractor or sister/parent company after their term.
Even if by some miracle the city/municipality has its own teams for this work, they’ll be nickel and dimed by checkbox ticking legislation that exists as breeding ground for middlemen consultants who will suck away taxpayer dollars.
That is until some “budget hawk” type consultancy is brought in by some bigger fish whether it’s the city or the state or the fed or the fucking IMF if you’re Greece and force privatisation in the name of efficiency.
This will lead to a collapse of the service quality, collapse of living standards and a declining trust in institutions, leading to a far-right takeover because in the end - most people are monsters.
Or something like that I imagine. I used to work for the NHS in the UK. The owner of the trust “convinced” the procurement to allow the company to make a “surplus”. He drove a Porsche and looked like a 90s movie villain.
So yes, pour that shit. And don’t feel bad - the ghouls wouldn’t, and we’re all just human after all.
The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.
why would you bother with a jar? just leave the pan to cool then wipe it up with some paper and toss it in the food waste bin
I use a jar because saved bacon grease makes for a tasty pre-salted lipid additive for free!
why would you bother with a jar? just leave the pan to cool then wipe it up with some paper and toss it in the
food waste bindrain.because popping corn in the bacon grease is the tastiest thing ever.
Because I add the grease to my compost heap and I don’t like paper towel.
I hate using paper towels. I use those silicone flexible spatulas to get the oil that’s taking too long to drop down.
My compost heap is now 80% bears. Did I do it wrong?
The problem is that you’re eating too many bears. You need more variety in your diet.
Your compost bin should be mostly green vegetables, followed by smaller amounts of fruits and grains. Keep the bears as just an occasional treat.
Most likely. Were you looking to attract bears?
Did you use Charmin?
Burn the grease in woodstove or fireplace for extra heat
Do you live in like a castle or something. Who tf has those.
Living in a semi old rural house next to a highway hoping to have a heatpump and woodstove(for -40) heating setup once I can afford to get rid of the natural gas furnace
so much good lard gets tossed out, i know this may be unpopular opinion, but much healthier than any
vegetableseed oilyeah it’s unpopular because it’s nonsense
seed oils have a high omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, and know to be inflammatory and contribute to chronic disease, including type 2 diabetes, one of the biggest killers of western society. before the XX century, we used mostly lard, tallow or olive oil, back then atherosclerosis wasn’t a issue as it is today
Yeah, please don’t get your health information (aka half-truths) from social media. Start with an easily accessible source, e. g.
… and if necessary, research from there.
Y’all deserve each other. Actual lard eater and veganoid. Just use butter.
Just use JPGs
Whats the scholarship on thise conditions at that time in history? Do we actually have enough of the bones to say?
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.
Okay but how? In what? For how long? Do you reuse it again? How often? Does it go bad? Where do I put the jar? Do I close it? People just say shit like “save your grease” and expect me to know what to do.
I just pour the grease from mine into a ramekin and then put that in the refrigerator, optionally cover it with plastic wrap if you are worried about contamination or smell. Most people use a jar with a lid but I don’t cook fatty meats often enough to need a jar for all the grease I produce. If you left the pan out after cooking/overnight and the grease solidified before you could pour it, just heat it up again on the stove or in the oven until it turns back into a liquid. Obviously, wait until the pan has cooled enough to handle it without burning yourself while doing this pouring step, hot grease burns like hell and will send you straight to the emergency room with 3rd degree burns if it gets spilled on you.
Once it’s in the container and in the refrigerator, it will solidify into a scoopable/spreadable semi-solid with a texture somewhere in between butter and ice cream. You can use it in place of fats or oils in other recipes (for example, if you need to grease a pan with butter or cooking spray before cooking, you can use a spoonful of the solid bacon grease instead). If you don’t want to use it and just want to dispose of it safely instead, just wait for it to solidify in the fridge and then scoop it into the trash. Takes about two seconds and won’t clog your plumbing
It does go bad eventually. The grease will get rancid if left alone for too long, and it will start to smell foul and anything you cook with it will taste terrible and make you sick. If you are going to save it, use it within a month or so if you leave it uncovered, or covered it can last longer but give it a smell test before you put it in a pan - it should have a neutral smell at room temperature and be white in color or have a very slight yellowish hue. Throw it out if you see any spots or discoloration.
A steak cooked in bacon grease is next level delicious. You should try it.
I got you.
I used to throw it away, but recently I started saving it, and it’s amazing.
Step 1: Cook bacon.
Step 2: Strain the grease. I use a tea strainer. You don’t have to do this, but it helps it last longer, because the bacon bits spoil before the grease does.
Step 3: Pour it into a small tub. I use an old spreadable butter tub that has masking tape on the top and sides with “BACON GREASE” written on it, so I don’t accidentally use it instead of butter.
Step 4: Store it in the refrigerator.
Step 5: Use that shit. You can use it in most places you’d use butter or oil.
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Caramelizing onions? Slap a dollop of bacon grease into the pan first.
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Pancakes? Pancakes with a soupçon of bacon.
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Eggs? Obviously.
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Grilled cheese? Holy shit, use bacon grease. It’s so fucking good.
It behaves a lot like butter. When it’s cold it stiffens up, but if you leave it out for a few minutes it softens and becomes spreadable.
Whenever I cook more bacon I top up my bacon grease tub. My cooking has gotten a little bit better this year, and it’s all because of bacon grease.
Another thing you can do is to separate the grease from any residual solids.
If you have a jar of bacon grease with brown bits floating around in it, you can put it in a pot with a similar amount of water and bring it all up to a boil or just near it for just a moment. The grease will sit on top of the hot water, but anything else will fall down. Then let the pot cool and put it in the fridge to solidify the grease. You can then scoop the now-solid grease in big chunks and put it back in the jar and discard any bits in the water.
I learned this from people who do at-home soap-making from their rendered fats. They would repeat it a few times before adding lye, as it will leach impurities such as salt, aromatic and favor compounds from the fat, but I find doing it once or twice leaves me with a nice cooking fat that still has bacon-y aroma.
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There’s a movie called The Greasy Strangler that reveals all.
That’s a dirty movie, for naughty people.
I just take a piece of aluminum foil and press it into the sink drain so it makes a little cup. Then pour the oil into that foil. Then drop an ice cube in to help it solidify and cool a bit then I grab the foil corners and twist them up and dump it in the trash.
It’s quick and easy and neat.
Pour it in an empty jar. let it cool and then put it in the fridge. It keeps nearly indefinitely.
Throw it away once it’s cooled. If it’s a solidified fat, you can just scrape it into the trash bag. If it’s a liquid oil, then you can throw it into a disposable container (I have a million takeout soup containers on hand at any given time) so that it doesn’t leak everywhere.
Oil is compostable, but only in proper ratios to the overall organic material being composted, so it’s fair game to put into compostable containers for industrial composting, or maybe small quantities in your backyard compost, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you know what you’re doing.
You put it with the jar into general waste. I guess you could also filter and reuse it if you had the materials and will
Why into general waste? Just put it with the other glass, they wash that anyway.
(Btw they are not happy that you do this, but whatever)
You save it up in a can or a jar and then you have a world of options:
Throw it away Make soap from it Throw it away Use it to season cast iron pots and pans Throw it away Cook with it if it’s from the last few days Throw it away Add it to outdoor dog food in the winter Throw it away Soften dry ski-you know what, just throw it away.
throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now
e: oh it’s GIVE it away. Also a grease jar option!
Get a drain snake, they’re like $10 and its saved me from calling a plumber 13 times at least.
that’s animal abuse!
but he’s so cute and round now 🥰🐍
My last drain snake broke off in the drain.
Get a decent drain snake. Maybe not the cheapest one on Amazon.
Ours did the same, so now we always call a specialist…
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.
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?
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.
