Breaking the generational barriers
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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"?
Get lucky finding the window that would sell you some schwag.
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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.
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. -
the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking
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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
My mum used to have a lard jar that was a mix of concealed bacon fat and god knows what else. Not a fan.
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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
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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.
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Get a drain snake, they're like $10 and its saved me from calling a plumber 13 times at least.
that's animal abuse!
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As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.
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. -
Its fine to remind the self centered that the world doesn't revolve around them.
I live in and visited multiple countries in Europe. You're all just as arrogant. The only exception is eastern Europe but they're just racist/homophobic
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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.wrote on last edited by [email protected]throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now
e: oh it's GIVE it away. Also a grease jar option!
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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
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Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
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You put it with the jar into general waste. I guess you could also filter and reuse it if you had the materials and will
Why into general waste? Just put it with the other glass, they wash that anyway.
(Btw they are not happy that you do this, but whatever)
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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
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Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.
The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.
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Oh true, bacon grease does get used. Either in the same dish or you throw some toast in that pan the next day. But OP seems to be talking about a jar to throw out.
Yeah, most families where I live keep a grease jar. You don't throw it out, bacon fat stays good for months, it's like a little tub of Crisco but a thousand times better tasting.
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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?
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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.
There's a movie called The Greasy Strangler that reveals all.
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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
I use discarded cat food tins. Pour the grease into the tin, wait for it to solidify, toss in trash.
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Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking
And probably buying shitty meats for starters.
