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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

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[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

As a renter, that's the way it goes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Nope. Nothing oily that doesn't rinse away completely with water. Most people forget butter and peanut butter, too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But olive oil does rinse away pretty easily with water and washing up liquid? So does butter and bacon fat?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nothing oily that doesn't rinse away with water?

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The question was can I pour oil down the drain. The "Rule of Thumb" (a general catch-all rule that plumbers use) is if it can't rinse away with water, don't pour it down the drain. I replied to whether you can pour olive oil down the drain. I don't know why you started talking about washing dishes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

But nothing rinses away with just water? That's why I assumed you meant "rinsing with water" = "washing dishes" because by that logic nothing at all can go down the drain, ever.

Why would that even be a rule of thumb? Who "rinses" dishes "with water" instead of washing them normally as described?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yes, Popeye will eat his spinach and rescue her.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why would pickles fuck it up?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

I think it was more about the size and quantity than it was about them being pickles.

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