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If you have a fireplace, used cooking oil burns great.
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.
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.
You have incinerators in your area? Everything in my area is landfill, so it will eventually become dirt.
Do plastics go in the landfill too? Or is it somehow separated so that only stuff that decays in years rather than centuries goes there?
You can use this to turn it into napalm: Waste Cooking Oil Powder (pack of 6) https://a.co/d/3WIT6Ff
If small amounts of oil that hardens when at room temp, like bacon fat. Throw it in a tin can to cool, garbage when the can fills. Oil that doesn’t harden, personally I put a bunch of dish soap into the oily pan to absorb the oil and wash it down the sink. Not sure if the dish soap does enough but seems safe to me.
If its a large amount, like for deep frying. Local recycling might take it. I know curbside pickup will take used motor oil for me, so I imagine they’d take fryer oil too.
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
There are ways to make it harden for bin disposal
That’s the worst pickup line I ever heard.
My wife has responded to lines nearly that bad, but I’ll report back with any success. 🫡
So?
bzzzz 🔴
Drink it.
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.
Here in Belgium nearly every household has a friteuse to make fries.
Wow, I just bake them, I’m sure it’s not as good though.
Blasphemy!
I just got a deep fryer literally two days ago how often should I change the oil?
They say around around 10 uses or a max of three months, depending on how often you use it and what you’re frying.
For me personally I tend to stretch it a bit further… the main thing is that it isn’t rancid or starting to get too dark.
Sweet thanks!
Most importantly, old oil can have a lower smoke point than is safe. Definitely replace your oil if anything starts to taste burnt.
Yeah, like what the fuck. People here really think that you can’t fry with just enough oil.
Well, not normally, but for example crispy breaded anything should be dunked in oil at least half way.
I just drink it.
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?
