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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

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[–] tungsten5@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] doktormerlin@feddit.org 1 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think that is specific for your town/city. We don't have that in my city, nor in other cities I lived in before.

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.

[–] tungsten5@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Really? Thats pretty cool fr. Is that offered to dissuade people from pouring it down the drain?

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[–] Echofox@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)
[–] Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

That's a job for the owners, not the renters

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rent goes up, oil goes down

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[–] polle@feddit.org 30 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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 unless you hate everything around you and don't pay taxes.. It will come back to bite you.

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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] GoddessGundy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 85 points 2 days ago (22 children)

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

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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 146 points 2 days ago (21 children)

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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