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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 147 points 4 days ago (19 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.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 76 points 4 days ago

Are you... speaking from experience?

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 85 points 4 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 16 points 4 days ago (8 children)

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 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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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[–] BossDj@piefed.social 103 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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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[–] polle@feddit.org 30 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rent goes up, oil goes down

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[–] Echofox@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

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[–] Tracaine@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 days 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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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (16 children)

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.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 51 points 4 days ago (5 children)

“But Dad, my heart hurts.”

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 22 points 4 days ago (13 children)

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 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

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

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 29 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

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

[–] tungsten5@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days 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 3 days 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.

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[–] ceiphas@feddit.org 4 points 3 days 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.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 32 points 4 days ago (29 children)

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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[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The jar got stuck in my drain.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 27 points 4 days 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~~ drain.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

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

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[–] HBK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 29 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Let it be the landlord's problem.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 67 points 4 days ago (3 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550465000/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-rock-solid-sewer-blockage

You're not just "sticking it to the man" when you do this though


you're being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.

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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago

Yeah.

They're not doing maintenance until something happens.

Like waste water coming up your drains, flooding your apartment with black, hardened, crystalized fat and stinking water because your upstairs neighbor has the washing machine running but the water can't go anywhere because the waste water main is clogged somewhere between your flat and the one below yours. This will happen on the day after tradies finish putting new laminate flooring in your entire apartment.

Don't ask me how I know.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It ruins things for everyone in your local area though. Fatburgs aren't localised to your landlords house.

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