the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
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.
There’s a movie called The Greasy Strangler that reveals all.
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.
throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now
e: oh it’s GIVE it away. Also a grease jar option!
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
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)
My mum used to have a lard jar that was a mix of concealed bacon fat and god knows what else. Not a fan.
Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking
And probably buying shitty meats for starters.
Get a drain snake, they’re like $10 and its saved me from calling a plumber 13 times at least.
that’s animal abuse!
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
I use discarded cat food tins. Pour the grease into the tin, wait for it to solidify, toss in trash.
Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
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.
If possible I save the grease. My house is next to a river, so I made it a habbit to not just throw away food but feed it to the fish. Sometimes we have leftovers and it’s been a little too long to eat, so I throw it in the river.
That’s smart. Then you have a steady supply of fresh fish.
Honestly, as a kid I loved fishing, I recently started again, but I actually felt kind of bad for the fish. Maybe if this trend continues I’ll be a vegan in the next 20 years.
Firestarter kits are weirdly expensive why would you eat the best accelerate?
If I cook a bunch of bacon, im using that bacon greased up pan to cook up a bunch of other food before i clean it. It makes everything taste so much better.
hmm, my cookies taste weird now, but okay
Ran out of butter last week and found out when I went to make a little bit of fudge. I used the bacon fat I strain and keep in a jar in the fridge. I usually don’t care for bacon tasting desserts, but I wasn’t mad about that decision at all.
“But Dad, my heart hurts.”
Butter is already like 90% fat.
For those not getting it: https://youtu.be/WL_lS_FsMvk
I didn’t get it. Now I do. Still, use that bacon grease in place of butter. Maybe add less salt. Now you gentlemen gonna buy some wigs or ain’t ya?
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.
In my house, you’ll do what I do, and believe what I believe.
I love America
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.
Did he also only eat the leaves of his potatoes?
Keep them money saved by using bacon grease for heart disease later on.
The savings go into the next pack of bacon, creating an endless bacon grease hack.
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.
As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.
You don’t have Plumbo or equivalent?
it destroys all organic matter it touches. Fatbergs, human hair, small rodents, I’ve never paid anymore to clear anything.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.
Or, alternatively, you could eat healthy.
Oh fuck off.
Correct
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.
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.
so would olive oil be ok
Nope. Nothing oily that doesn’t rinse away completely with water. Most people forget butter and peanut butter, too.
Yes, Popeye will eat his spinach and rescue her.
Cost us over $200 to get a plumber to fix the drain when my partner decided to feed an entire jar of whole pickles into the garbage disposal.
Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology
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
The jar got stuck in my drain.
The jar got stuck in my
drainanus.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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‽
Newer generations and less likely to own homes due to global housing markets cooling down. This is directly proportional to the inverse of fucks residents have about plumbering.
That said I wasn’t raised to know this until the internet taught me. Then I started freezing them in cans and tossing in the trash.
Will I’ll admit I was the dumb generation at some point(that point was the moment the garbage disposal stopped). He only took out a basic looking hex wrench, and shit was solved!
Sorry if I kept you up, or upset you.
Edit to add: I have no idea what I was trying to say, but it exists! You fuckers have fun trying to explain me!
Not upset just saying I consider myself intelligent and well educated but my parents never taught me this. They were renters and so was I.
We even got a clog and landlord for a plumber out. Once in 10 years.
Knew enough to waste hot water and pour boiling water down the drain to help it out.
I learned in my mid 20s to stop. People have different circumstances with their upbringing.
Yes!
This is why I like Lemmy. It’s like OG reddit. People express opinions and we can have healthy discourse when someone disputes an opinion.
No worries.
Some people (like Ben Shapiro and his ilk) make it to adulthood not knowing how to do laundry or clean the dishes in the first place. … and they’re proud of it.
I got a comment from a few months back about my fellow cis hetiods about how it’s so strange that there is a non insignificant number that don’t even wipe their own ass!
Like I said I’m cis het, but I would sooner take a dick in the ass than deal with the fucker itching all day!
Also didn’t the found of the proof boys(Gavin something or another) take a dildo in the ass live and on air because he thought it would upset liberals? Yeah, these right winged pricks need to just embrace the fact, that they might be bi.(A day bi specifically cause they don’t sound like Lindsey Graham)
I’m pretty sure everyone who says it’s gay to wipe your own ass is trolling.
Definitely, but I think that Proud Boys leader who showed he could take a black dildo probably thought he was doing some really clever double bluff thing, but we see you Gavin McKinnes. We see you and the insecurities you’re fighting so hard to hide.
This is my first time hearing of this ngl. Actually I’m not entirely sure what “grease” means, is it what is left from oil and butter after cooking meats? Meat juices? I’ve always poured it down the drain. Never even heard of anyone doing otherwise, least of all putting it in a jar.
Definitely don’t put grease or oil down the drain if it is solid at room temperature. Even oil that’s liquid at room temperature is bad for sewage systems - they combine with non-biodegradable sewage waste such as wet-wipes (Don’t flush wet wipes down the toilet. Put them in the trash.) and turn into rocks that narrow and block the sewage pipes. See wiki on Fatbergs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
TIL. Thanks! Knew about wet wipes obviously. But first time I heard of this grease thing.
Apparently it’s mostly an issue in the US due to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_trap so might be more common knowledge there. Apparently here as long as you’re not pouring large amounts but just as whatever naturally occurs on pans, especially if you mix it with washing up liquid as you wash dishes, it is ok.
Most restaurants have a grease trap, but most houses do not.
Even what is naturally in the pan is often to much and you need to clean them with paper towel before washing. At least according to the Plummer I work with
Lucky 10g reference, or you never had to clean up after the parents made food?
clean up after the parents
Huh? I live on my own and cook for myself and have for 10 years. My parents live in a different country and I’ve not even seen or spoke to them in like 6 years so I don’t get what you mean to imply there.
I just haven’t heard of this phenomenon before. I’ve never had any drainage issues either. Maybe in the shower due to hair, but never in the kitchen. I’ve just literally never heard of this, ever, my parents definitely never did this back in my home country, nor have I ever seen anyone do this in any of the countries I’ve been to or the one I currently live in.
I’ve lived with roommates, at boarding school, and with a partner, and not once have I seen them not pour grease down the drain either, least of all in a jar.
Doing some surface level research it seems like primarily an American thing. As long as you’re not pouring litres of pure grease down the drain it should be ok to just wash down what naturally comes off pans etc. as you wash them, especially mixed with washing up liquid. Maybe I’m just not very greasy idk.
What is “lucky 10g”?
Get lucky finding the window that world sell you some schwag.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
Are you… speaking from experience?
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.
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”
I may be speaking from experience. I only pour grease into cans and foil now.
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.
Got any advice about tubes and if you get something stuck in one?
