If you have a fireplace, used cooking oil burns great.
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I hope you get your chimney cleaned often because that flue probably looks bituminous otherwise.
Why? (Honest question, seems like a good PSA type moment)
You know the grease you see on the range hood or ceilings of your kitchen/restaurants above the cooktop/stove?
Same thing would happen in your chimney, but combined with wood fire ash.
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So... What are you supposed to do with oil if not pouring it down the drain?
Take it to the recycling center. Even just tossing it into the trash is better than pouring it down the drain. If you toss it in the trash it will just get incinerated. If you pour it down the drain it can clog the sewage system.
"it will just get incinerated"
Look at you, living in a country where they actually do something with trash instead of just accumulating it in a huge field
Going to the dump is so weird. It's just like, here's a field...just throw your shit wherever and let's get outta here.
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It eventually becomes a huge hill, then we can build a ski slope on it.
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Drink it.
Take it to your local recycling center, if they have the means to collect it.
There are ways to make it harden for bin disposal, but if I'm feeling cheeky I just put used oil back in the plastic jug once it's cooled down and bin that
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What on earth are you all cooking to have so much oil left over that you can pour it into anything?
For me it's mostly the deep fryer. When I change the oil it takes about 4 1/2 liters to refill.
That makes sense, I didn't imagine that many people bother deep frying at home, but I guess I'm wrong :D
But in this case people are describing adding a little oil to a bottle at a time where with deep frying you could fill a bottle every time I think.
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I don't call it oil since it's solid at room temperature, but if you fry meat you'll liberate fat (dripping)
Meat! I was forgetting about meat...
Have you every heard of the method of cooking called frying?
Sure, but not usually with enough oil to pour out of the pan after cooking.
That depends on the dish - a Wiener Schnitzel for example should be able to move freely in the oil (because it should be kept moving while frying), or the breading will be pretty underwhelming. Same goes for most stuff with breading. I always try to be very conservative in my cooking oil usage, but in those cases it's just not an option.
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I did that once, I was staying at a family as an exchange student and immediately forced to help with chores. Now, they ran a large creche from that house so there were a lot of different chores and being on dishes could mean slaving away in the kitchen for well over an hour.
Anyway, I didn't know shit about how to properly dispose of oil and in the first or second week poured a large pan of oil down the drain. It ended up ruining some stuff and they had a hefty repair bill. I may be cynical, but I never gave a damn about it as they were basically using me as free labor anyway. Helping with household chores = ok. Helping clean up the gigantic daily mess of those shitty kids in your shitty creche = not ok
creche
noun
Alternative form of crèche.
JK,
was it penguins or bats?
Isn't a crèche that thing Lae'zel kept yapping on about in Baldur's Gate?
Yes because githyanki are egg laying bat faced people
...wow...how did I not make that connection.
Proof that my brain is smoother than that Githyanki egg I accidentally destroyed.
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Ken M vibes
We had a grease can under the sink when I wasgrowing up. My fiancee and I use an old jar. I can't believe people didn't know better. They probably think it's fine to dump car fluids in the storm drain too. Idiots.
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~~I keep a container for used cooking oil along with old motor oil. Whenever it starts getting full, I take it to the local auto parts store for recycling.~~
Do not take cooking oil to an Advanced Auto Parts for recycling. They do not accept that. If you'd like other options, a quick internet search will let you know what you can doodoo brown 🕺
Mixed? Motor oil should be recycled at the auto parts store, but different people people used vegetable oil. Worse case, you could throw out the veg oil. It will biodegrade in the landfill better then most of the stuff that ends up there
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Idc if this is dumb, I pour it in a bucket and when it's full I dig a hole in the back yard and pour the oil in there and bury it. I do this 1-2 times a year.
You're begging the US Army to liberate your yard.
Depends on the oil but cooking oil is organic material so it shouldn't be an issue.
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I have a small bucket filled with sawdust that I use to store used cooking oil. Bucket stays in the garage as it'll eventually go rancid. When it does, it gets thrown into the trash. The resulting mess is still greasy, but not runny. The key here is that soaking it this way limits the mess that can happen if it's knocked over; sawdust is what you use to clean an oil spill anyway.
Wood-based cat litter would also work for this. It's just compressed sawdust pellets^1^.
Edit: I have not looked into donating it as biodiesel. That would probably be a somewhat more green option.
^1^ - very likely made in the same fashion as pellet stove fuel, so that might work too.
If you have a metal bowl that you no longer need, you can put a roll of toilet paper in there and then douse the whole thing in cooling oil.
Once ignited you will have a stinky lamp, so I would only recommend doing this outside.
I'll usually wipe the oil with some paper so I can throw it on the trash. Many moons ago, my family used to collect the oil to make soap at home. Last time I recall seeing that was some 30-ish years ago.
I just drink it.
this kindof, but more serious.
Unless we're talking deep frying, the cooking fat makes for a perfect base for a sauce. With some flour and some stock you have the beginnings of something beautiful, such a waste just throwing it away.
What a waste of perfectly good lube.
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