the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Only poor it down the drain if you rent! Never when you own!
Yeah great. When it clogs up the sewage, tell that to the workes who have to clean your shit up.
That’s a job for the owners, not the renters
that’s what the water bill covers, is it not?
Did you downvote your own comment?
I don’t like self upvoting
But isn’t it automatic?
lol
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.
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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Fuck that noice! Sometimes I buy bacon only because my fat jar is empty. That shit is gold for cooking with.
Honestly never heard of that, but I’m also a bit lost in translation. Does this have any relevance to a person that only uses olive and sunflower oil and doesn’t eat any meat?
Fatty meat will result in a lot of grease that if poured down the sink will solidify on the walls of your drain pipes.
But if it is only that, a few paper towels should be enough to catch the grease.
Öl will solidify as well, even if it takes a lower temperature than meat drippings. Use a paper towel to soak up leftover oil and dispose of it in the Restmüll.
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.
Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.
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.
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.
Holy shit it’s true! They no longer make “Pyrex” cookware out of borosilicate glass but instead soda lime glass.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Just putting oil in a few dozen times won’t shatter it. A few hundred cooling cycles might, but you change jars by then.
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.
I guess it depends on the temperature of the oil, I pour when its still liquid, but less than boiling.
I pour when it’s hot to the touch, but not unpleasant, so probably around 50-60 C
And it still shattered?
Got any advice about tubes and if you get something stuck in one?
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.
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.
Idk I’ve never had any issues.
Yet. It can take several years to build up
Yeah in many years never had a problem.
Since you seem to be stubborn and unwilling to accept friendly advice, here’s a wikipedia article on why It’s a problem
As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.
As a renter, that’s the way it goes
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.
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
I’m pretty sure the risk is lower, but you probably still shouldn’t. I think the problem is that anything fatty/oily can emulsify with other things that get poured down the drain and potentially thicken into a blockage even if they weren’t in that state when you poured them down
Yes, Popeye will eat his spinach and rescue her.
Nope. Nothing oily that doesn’t rinse away completely with water. Most people forget butter and peanut butter, too.
But olive oil does rinse away pretty easily with water and washing up liquid? So does butter and bacon fat?
Nothing oily that doesn’t rinse away with water?
Why do you keep focusing on “water”? I don’t get what you’re getting at. You don’t wash dishes with just water. Water is a very small and inconsequential component of the process.
You wash dishes by squeezing some dishwashing liquid on a dishwashing sponge, then pour hot water onto the dish being cleaned and leave it on as you clean, then you scrub the dish clean with the sponge while water flows over washing away what’s left.
Then when there are no longer any visible stains on the dishes in question, the dishes are considered clean and you put them on a drying rack and/or pat them down with a towel to ensure dryness.
All i see going into the sink during this process is soapy water. I’ve no idea what is or isn’t “grease” of that liquid. It’s all just food waste. It disappears away into nothingness, as it should.
Why it could cause any issues all of a sudden when it never has and the only place people have ever mentioned it or claimed to do it is on the internet.
Ig it’s like one of those “put an iPhone in a microwave” trolling things to get people to keep jars of dirt/trash/food waste and spread insects and/or disease?
Edit: Downvoted because you’re upset at the mention of dishes?
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
Oh my how original. No I will not eat ze bugs. Are you gonna bitch and cry about le poor animals now too?
It’s such surface level emotional thinking. Like if you just think about it for a moment - let 'em mfers burn and churn, momma needs her protein dust.
Snowflake
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.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.
Why would pickles fuck it up?
I think it was more about the size and quantity than it was about them being pickles.
Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.
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.
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
Infrastructure that was torn from public control and privatised, ruined, and now begging for more tax money to fund their bonuses, you say?
Delightfully devilish!
… Are sewers private in your area? Must suck man
There’s not really “public” per se.
It’ll be handled by a private contractor owned by private equity that specializes in leeching taxpayer dollars same as everything. The tender will be won by those who can promise the local govt officials the best jobs at said private contractor or sister/parent company after their term.
Even if by some miracle the city/municipality has its own teams for this work, they’ll be nickel and dimed by checkbox ticking legislation that exists as breeding ground for middlemen consultants who will suck away taxpayer dollars.
That is until some “budget hawk” type consultancy is brought in by some bigger fish whether it’s the city or the state or the fed or the fucking IMF if you’re Greece and force privatisation in the name of efficiency.
This will lead to a collapse of the service quality, collapse of living standards and a declining trust in institutions, leading to a far-right takeover because in the end - most people are monsters.
Or something like that I imagine. I used to work for the NHS in the UK. The owner of the trust “convinced” the procurement to allow the company to make a “surplus”. He drove a Porsche and looked like a 90s movie villain.
So yes, pour that shit. And don’t feel bad - the ghouls wouldn’t, and we’re all just human after all.
The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.
It isn’t put in the jar to throw away, its put in the jar to cook more food with later
For maximum enjoyment, drink it directly from the jar. Preferably while warm.
And use for tortillas and savory pie crust.
When my grandma had “too much” of it she would mix it with seeds and put it out for the woodpeckers in winter
Bacon grease chocolate chip cookies…
I shit you not.
Fuck. It’s 2am and I’m so high. Why did I have to read this‽
How long does bacon grease last? How can I tell if it went bad? Does it last longer in the fridge?
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
Fake news, I’ve never had bacon grease last that long. That’s why I’m not thin.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
They make ones with a mesh filter you pour it through
You can freeze it!
Thank you for the info.
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.
You can also make soap out of it, and you get some curious byproducts!
“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.
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.
The fish are going to die anyway. Might as well be the one getting fed by them.
While this is true, I don’t eat fish in general (don’t like the taste), so it’s more a sport than for food.
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
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?
Firestarter kits are weirdly expensive why would you eat the best accelerate?
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.
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.
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‽
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.(I say 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.
The stories I’ve heard both irl & online, would beg to differ.
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.
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.
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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.
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
Yeah so I think it’s okay because without the grease trap there’s no clog. Idk about plumbing though. Ig it’s something to keep in mind for longevity if you’re lucky enough to own.
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”?
I think they are saying, you one of the lucky 10000. It’s a reference to an xkcd comic where they joke about everyday 10000 people learning something new.
Edit someone posted the link in this thread so here it is for your entertainment https://xkcd.com/1053/
Ah sure thanks. The “g” threw me off. Wouldn’t it be “lucky 10k”? g means “grand” but that’s usually only in reference to money, nah?
Yeah it took me a moment to try and work out what they were saying when they said 10g as well so your confusion was well waranted there lol. I just noticed someone posted the comic further down and thats my best guess as to what they were referring to because I’m not aware of anything that 10g could mean otherwise.
Sorry everyone for the confusion. I was intoxicated and am genuinely surprised anyone understood me.
10g more than likely 10k typo (perhaps more brain than body/finger typo, there a word for that?)
Oh, “thinko”
Get lucky finding the window that would sell you some schwag.
What? Is that meant to be a reference to something? Google doesn’t really show anything for that exact quote with or without the typo(?). Bot gone wrong?
Every city I’ve lived in when I was younger and shit was illegal everywhere always had a “window” you could walk up to and buy shitty weed at.
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Our neighbours had to get a plumber in to clear their pipes and septic tank because they would poor grease and fat down the drains all the time and ate a lot of meat.
They were in their 60s
JFC! I guess this is why we can’t have nice things…
Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology
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
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 bindrain.I use a jar because saved bacon grease makes for a tasty pre-salted lipid additive for free!
Because I add the grease to my compost heap and I don’t like paper towel.
I hate using paper towels. I use those silicone flexible spatulas to get the oil that’s taking too long to drop down.
My compost heap is now 80% bears. Did I do it wrong?
The problem is that you’re eating too many bears. You need more variety in your diet.
Your compost bin should be mostly green vegetables, followed by smaller amounts of fruits and grains. Keep the bears as just an occasional treat.
Most likely. Were you looking to attract bears?
Did you use Charmin?
because popping corn in the bacon grease is the tastiest thing ever.
Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
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
It fucks up the whole neighborhood dummy
That may be true, but if the collective society decided to make housing unaffordable for the younger generation then they’ve decided to live with the inevitable shenanigans.
Then break tooth picks off in all the door locks, smash the windows or drill holes in the fuckin roof but causing chaos for your neighborhood is whack
plausible deniability
It’s kinda not their neighborhood is the point
Plenty of people who still own their own home who also live in that neighborhood.
You seem a bit slow, why would the original commenter care about that?
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.
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.
Good. Disrupt the system. Until young people can purchase homes at similar rates to healthy countries then young people should escalate civil disobedience.
Lol They’re just going to raise the rent even more, to cover for your disruption.
Edit: spelling
They raise the rent the max amount no matter what the tenant does. Every year, without fail. This will have no effect.
Lol they’re just gonna cave your skull in with a fucking rock because there literally isn’t anything else to do. Congrats
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
It helps the eels get a better connection with the car battery. You want to help them recharge dont you?
