the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Only poor it down the drain if you rent! Never when you own!
Breaking the generational barriers
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Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.
marighost@piefed.social 1 day ago
Are you... speaking from experience?
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.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 12 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.
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.
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).
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
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 12 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.
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”
baggins@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I may be speaking from experience. I only pour grease into cans and foil now.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Got any advice about tubes?
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 22 hours 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.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
British breakfast is okay. But there’s a reason non of the top 10 restaurants in Great Britain is British.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
No-one in the UK goes to a restaurant for breakfast
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Because you don’t go to a fancy restaurant to eat breakfast?
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Don’t tell me how to live 🦅🇺🇸
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.
Kirsche_z@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 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.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Kirsche_z@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
I’m making a sandwich rn. wyd?
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.
FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Rent goes up, oil goes down
rickywithanm@aussie.zone 54 minutes ago
That’s what I always say
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.
Cheems@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
As a renter, that’s the way it goes
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 hour 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.
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.
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.
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.
angrystego@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Or, alternatively, you could eat healthy.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Idk I’ve never had any issues.
BossDj@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Yet. It can take several years to build up
polle@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Good. Disrupt the system. Until young people can purchase homes at similar rates to healthy countries then young people should escalate civil disobedience.
rumba@lemmy.zip 7 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.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 8 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
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It fucks up the whole neighborhood dummy
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
It helps the eels get a better connection with the car battery. You want to help them recharge dont you?
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours 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.
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 hour 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!!
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I’m with in you in spirits, but then I’d have to live with consequential stink of my own actions.
Tracaine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.
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.
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
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 21 hours 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.
hansolo@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
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.
Randelung@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
throw it away, throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now
Furbag@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
faltryka@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
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
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
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)
moakley@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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: 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.
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 11 hours ago
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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exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
There’s a movie called The Greasy Strangler that reveals all.
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 14 hours ago
That’s a dirty movie, for naughty people.
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.
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
You can also make soap out of it, and you get some curious byproducts!
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.
kieron115@startrek.website 13 hours ago
Please don’t pour fat down the drain. Starving children in Africa could use that bacon grease!
POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Let it be the landlord’s problem.
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‽
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology
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
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
The jar got stuck in my drain.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 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
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.
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
Keener@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I started pouring mine in to an ash bucket I use for the open fire. The ash soaks it up and it all gets thrown out in to the bin
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
My mum used to have a lard jar that was a mix of concealed bacon fat and god knows what else. Not a fan.
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.
Krudler@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking
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
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.
GoddessGundy@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Fuck that noice! Sometimes I buy bacon only because my fat jar is empty. That shit is gold for cooking with.