the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
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    2 days 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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      21 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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        20 hours ago

        Just putting oil in a few dozen times won’t shatter it. A few hundred cooling cycles might, but you change jars by then.

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          20 hours ago

          It won’t necessarily shatter it, but it absolutely can. I’ve done it with a jar I had washed the original product out of shortly beforehand. Just because it’s never happened to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

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                  1 hour ago

                  Yep, I was PISSED. I can’t even eat pork and was just being a good houseguest the morning after a party, and then suddenly had to clean up a bunch of shattered glass and pork fat in someone else’s kitchen.

                  Canning jars are made to withstand temperature changes though.

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                    1 hour ago

                    Weird. I mean tomato sauce jars are too, at least once. Was it a pickle or jam jar? Ive had those break just placing them on the counter.

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      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”