DUer Household Hint Question: Best way to dispose of cooking grease?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

You know, like, from the frying pan. Bacon grease, leftover cooking oil etc. What's the best way to get rid of it without ruining your sink/disposal etc.?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Feed it to your pets

I put grease on the pet food and they love it!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. We accumulate it in a jar and then when the jar is full

and the stuff is solidified, we dump it in the trash right before trash pick up (so it doesn't sit in there smelling).

We don't take a chance on the garbage disposal.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Thanks for all the hints everyone! My mom used to dump it in soup cans

and let it solidify but we don't use cans enough to have any around.

I'll figure something out along these lines though.

[GalleryGod]

21. Agreed.

IMHO:eyes:
Your Man in the Faculty Lounge,cleaning the microwave:mad: (grease!)
GG:smoke:

[nostamj]

3. saltines with

a roasted red pepper garnish...

[benddem]

4. agree with moonbeam

I use an empty can. Then pitch it. My dog is too fat.

[Nite Owl]

5. Grease is the worse thing for the

septic system. Keep an empty coffee can and dispose of it in the trash.

[trof]

6. Make soap.

Where's your pioneer spirit?
;-)

[ithacan]

7. flush it down the toilet

it'll get taken care of in the local waste treatment plan.

ALternatively, let it solidify and throw it out in the regular garbage.

Of if you're really amitious and want to do composting that includes meat products (which is possible though very demanding), include it in that...

[r_u_stuck2]

8. Buy a bag of kitty litter

Put kitty litter in a large empty coffee can abut 3/4 full, dump grease in there and toss it in the trash.

Or any other leak proof container you can find. Don't put it down the sink causes major septic tank problems and probably not helpful to the sewage treatment plant.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

10. Hmmm

the kitty litter idea is a good one, I had never heard of that. Thanks!

(We had just been accumulating ours in a jar then dumping when it was full and solidified.)

[VoteDemocratic2004]

20. Will used kitty litter do?

?

[oregonjen]

9. At our Asian food store there is a powder to put in it that solidifies it

Very handy, especially because we don't deep fry very often. When you use it, it hardens and then can go right into the trash. The Japanese name is Katmeru Tempuru. Great stuff!

[KayLaw]

11. Question

What happens if you slosh a little of that oil on your blue tee-shirt and it leaves a dark mark that sticks around no matter how many times you wash it? That's what happened to me a my favorite tee. Any ideas?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. It's stained

and since it is grease and you have already washed it a few times, it is most likely not EVER going to come out. Especially if you have put it in the dryer after washing it, so you either have to learn to live with it or give the shirt to Goodwill or toss it or something.

[KayLaw]

16. Thanks

I'd hoped for a miracle potion but I guess I'll just have to get used to it because I love the shirt.

:)

[Karenina]

24. This works if you react

faster than a *dimwit :evilgrin:

Rub a generous amount of baby powder onto the grease spot. If it turns grey and cakes, brush it off and do it again. Then throw the garment into the dirty laundry.

[burrowowl]

13. Bacon grease

refry your beans in it.
Other, find out where people pick up bio-diesel grease.
If it solidifies, save it for feeding birds in winter, they need it.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

15. My mom use to save it in a can

She would use a tin can and pour the leftover grease into the can freeze it and dump it.

[Speck Tater]

17. Eat Vegetarian. Voila! No grease to clog sinks and ateries.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. You not only eat only veggies, but never fry any of them either?

:shrug:
What manner of person be you?

[Speck Tater]

23. Unsaturated fats from vegetable sources

don't harden at room temperature and so pose no threat to plumbing.

[glitch]

18. Find someone who will take it off your hands and convert it to biodiesel

This goes with the soap suggestion - convert the grease to biodiesel and glycerine - two products you can use (if you have a diesel motor).
Don't dump it - grease in landfills is a growing problem.
Some communities are collecting grease separately, similar to paper/glass/can recycling, and starting small biodiesel plants.
Who knows? See what your community is doing.

[NV Whino]

22. Never have much of it

since I don't do a lot of frying. But with tomato season, comes a lot of bacon cooking for BLTs. I drain the pan onto aluminum foil, close up, deposit in freezer until trash day when I dispose of it along with whatever meat garbage there is. The vegitable garbage goes in the compost pile.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I pour it into a coffee can. Save it up and then toss it

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