Breaking the generational barriers

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• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • marighost@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are you... speaking from experience?

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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).

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  • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve been pouring hot grease in glass jars for decades without having one shatter. You’re severely overestimating the risks

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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”

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    • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I may be speaking from experience. I only pour grease into cans and foil now.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Got any advice about tubes?

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  • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not blowing smoke here … that’s great writing. It works well if you imagine voice growing frantic and speaking faster as it goes.

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• Echofox@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only poor it down the drain if you rent! Never when you own!

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  • menemen@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah great. When it clogs up the sewage, tell that to the workes ho have to clean your shit up.

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that’s what the water bill covers, is it not?

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• tungsten5@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • polydactyl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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    • doktormerlin@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      with Premium Brand paper towels it really doesn’t matter, you can let the pan cool down and then wipe it with the paper towel. Works really good

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  • ceiphas@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • menemen@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think that is specific for your town/city. We don’t have that here. 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.

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    • tungsten5@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Really? Thats pretty cool fr. Is that offered so people don’t pour it down the drain?

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  • Lemmyuser2702@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I only use a few paper towels cleaning out the jar when it’s full. That’s my reasoning.

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• BossDj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Idk I’ve never had any issues.

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    • BossDj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yet. It can take several years to build up

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.

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  • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I briefly worked for a plumber during my college days to make money. He said the people who kept him in business were people who poured grease down the drain and also people who flushed tampons.

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    • droans@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      People who pour grease down the drain have definitely never unclogged a drain before.

      Usually something like half fibers (hair, tampons, “flushable” wipes, etc), half grease and fats.

      If it’s a solid at room temp, it probably shouldn’t go down the drain.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Keep it in a mug by the sink

    Every time the mug fills up, dump it into a pot of very hot water, give it a stir, pour it into a mason jar, seal it tightly, and put it in the fridge upside down.

    When it’s cold, dump out the water, scrape the thin top layer of crap off, and voila, you have perfectly usable high smoke point salted lard for frying.

    If you fry fresh pork belly, save that fat separately, do the same thing, and you have pure lard.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Or, alternatively, you could eat healthy.

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  • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a renter, that’s the way it goes

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    • Echofox@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If housing as an investment has created a circumstance where young people can no longer afford homes then it’s in those young peoples best interest to sour the investment class.

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You don’t have Plumbo or equivalent? Image it destroys all organic matter it touches. Fatbergs, human hair, small rodents, I’ve never paid anymore to clear anything.

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• Tracaine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.

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• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    British breakfast is okay. But there’s a reason non of the top 10 restaurants in Great Britain is British.

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    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because you don’t go to a fancy restaurant to eat breakfast?

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    • Nfamwap@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No-one in the UK goes to a restaurant for breakfast

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• polle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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. It will come back to bite you.

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    • Echofox@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good. Disrupt the system. Until young people can purchase homes at similar rates to healthy countries then young people should escalate civil disobedience.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It helps the eels get a better connection with the car battery. You want to help them recharge dont you?

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  • bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It fucks up the whole neighborhood dummy

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t tell me how to live 🦅🇺🇸

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    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.

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• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.

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  • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rent goes up, oil goes down

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    • rickywithanm@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s what I always say

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It isn’t put in the jar to throw away, its put in the jar to cook more food with.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For maximum enjoyment, drink it directly from the jar. Preferably while warm.

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  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bacon grease chocolate chip cookies…

      I shit you not.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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    • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can freeze it!

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• SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Echofox@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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!!

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    • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m with in you in spirits, but then I’d have to live with consequential stink of my own actions.

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• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are you the same people complaining about increasing food prices who are also throwing away the best part? The bacon is the byproduct. People! Save this grease and use it when another recipe calls for butter.

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “But Dad, my heart hurts.”

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    • droans@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Butter is already like 90% fat.

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    • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For those not getting it: youtu.be/WL_lS_FsMvk

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    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you aren’t the kind of person who eats bacon to get that bacon fat from in the first place, feel free to ignore.

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    • Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In my house, you’ll do what I do, and believe what I believe.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love America

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    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I guess they have been trained to not value valuable things so they can buy new things to serve that same purpose? I stayed with someone who threw away all the white part of his leeks because that was all just root and they once touched dirt or something.

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• POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Let it be the landlord’s problem.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Says people who have never lived alone.

  Like you don’t even have to be a homeowner to know not to do this! I know this is shit posting, but there ain’t no way you make it to reproductive age without figuring this one dumb thing out‽

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology

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• GoddessGundy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck that noice! Sometimes I buy bacon only because my fat jar is empty. That shit is gold for cooking with.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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

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• Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The jar got stuck in my drain.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can, pour the grease into a can. Glass is likely to energetically and spontaneously disassemble when temperature shock occurs.

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• kieron115@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Please don’t pour fat down the drain. Starving children in Africa could use that bacon grease!

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• Kirsche_z@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• HBK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always chug a beer/soda, open the top of the can using a can opener, and pour the grease into that.

  NOTE: make sure all the liquid is out of the bottom of the can (maybe wipe it down with a towel) or else the grease may shoot back out

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• basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dad owned a low rent apartment house. people would put chicken bones in the drain and then call because the drain backed up. and take bulbs out of the hallway lights. He’d laugh about it then fix the stuff because he wasn’t a good slum-lord. Probably never broke even

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 copy off like Katameru Tempuru

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just throw some dishwasher detergent down there once a month. It’ll be fine.

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• fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you’re renting, maybe it’s not your problem. The landlords jack us for rent, so we mess with their drains. Meh.

  Should we respect our landlords, you might ask? That depends on them. Respect is earned.

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