the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

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[–] 149 points 1 year 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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    [–] 104 points 1 year 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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    [–] 87 points 1 year ago (23 children)

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

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year 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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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] 56 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

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

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (21 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.

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago (30 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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    [–] 31 points 1 year 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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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year 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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    [–] 31 points 1 year 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

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Let it be the landlord's problem.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The jar got stuck in my drain.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (14 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.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year 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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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 17 points 1 year 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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    [–] 16 points 1 year 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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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Step 1: Get chickens

    Step 2: add oats ( oat flakes ) to the pan with grease

    Step 3: stir until they've absorbed the fat

    Step 4: treat the chickens

    Step 5: ??????

    Step 6: Profit!

    Edit: formatting

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Dad owned a low rent apartment house. people would put chicken bones in the drain and then call because the drain backed up. and take bulbs out of the hallway lights. He'd laugh about it then fix the stuff because he wasn't a good slum-lord. Probably never broke even

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