the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology
IF you absolutely must do this, make sure to fill the bottom of the sink with a little bit of cold standing water first. This helps to break up the grease and seal in the juices.
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.
Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.
Are you… speaking from experience?
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.
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.
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 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”
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 may be speaking from experience. I only pour grease into cans and foil now.
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).
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?
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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.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
You can freeze it!
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
Let it be the landlord’s problem.
Like a landlord is going to fix your clogged drain anytime soon. They’re not your mom, they’re a business. You’ll be lucky if a plumber comes out in a couple of weeks.
You’re not just “sticking it to the man” when you do this though — you’re being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
That’s on the private water companies and failing to invest and fix the infrastructure properly. Fuck them they are the same bastards as the landlords if not worse.
that’s the city’s fault for banning private septic systems
Imagine a city where everybody has their own septic system to maintain?
The tenant special
“Yeah take that landlord!”
*clogs their own pipes*
Yeah.
They’re not doing maintenance until something happens.
Like waste water coming up your drains, flooding your apartment with black, hardened, crystalized fat and stinking water because your upstairs neighbor has the washing machine running but the water can’t go anywhere because the waste water main is clogged somewhere between your flat and the one below yours. This will happen on the day after tradies finish putting new laminate flooring in your entire apartment.
Don’t ask me how I know.
It ruins things for everyone in your local area though. Fatburgs aren’t localised to your landlords house.
Exactly.
Concrete in the toilet, now that’s an idea.
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 I add the grease to my compost heap and I don’t like paper towel.
My compost heap is now 80% bears. Did I do it wrong?
Did you use Charmin?
Most likely. Were you looking to attract bears?
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.
I hate using paper towels. I use those silicone flexible spatulas to get the oil that’s taking too long to drop down.
because popping corn in the bacon grease is the tastiest thing ever.
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
Whats the scholarship on thise conditions at that time in history? Do we actually have enough of the bones to say?
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
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.
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.
Really? Thats pretty cool fr. Is that offered to dissuade people from pouring it down the drain?
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.
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
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.
