Breaking the generational barriers
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My last drain snake broke off in the drain.
Get a decent drain snake. Maybe not the cheapest one on Amazon.
Ours did the same, so now we always call a specialist...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Throw it away once it's cooled. If it's a solidified fat, you can just scrape it into the trash bag. If it's a liquid oil, then you can throw it into a disposable container (I have a million takeout soup containers on hand at any given time) so that it doesn't leak everywhere.
Oil is compostable, but only in proper ratios to the overall organic material being composted, so it's fair game to put into compostable containers for industrial composting, or maybe small quantities in your backyard compost, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you know what you're doing.
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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Just add oil solidifier so you can throw the solidified oil into the compost or trash bin. Like FryAway or just buy the original Japanese versions which FryAway is a copy of like Katameru Tempuru
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I got you.
I used to throw it away, but recently I started saving it, and it's amazing.
Step 1: Cook bacon.
Step 2: Strain the grease. I use a tea strainer. You don't have to do this, but it helps it last longer, because the bacon bits spoil before the grease does.
Step 3: Pour it into a small tub. I use an old spreadable butter tub that has masking tape on the top and sides with "BACON GREASE" written on it, so I don't accidentally use it instead of butter.
Step 4: Store it in the refrigerator.
Step 5: Use that shit. You can use it in most places you'd use butter or oil.
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Caramelizing onions? Slap a dollop of bacon grease into the pan first.
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Pancakes? Pancakes with a soupçon of bacon.
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Eggs? Obviously.
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Grilled cheese? Holy shit, use bacon grease. It's so fucking good.
It behaves a lot like butter. When it's cold it stiffens up, but if you leave it out for a few minutes it softens and becomes spreadable.
Whenever I cook more bacon I top up my bacon grease tub. My cooking has gotten a little bit better this year, and it's all because of bacon grease.
Another thing you can do is to separate the grease from any residual solids.
If you have a jar of bacon grease with brown bits floating around in it, you can put it in a pot with a similar amount of water and bring it all up to a boil or just near it for just a moment. The grease will sit on top of the hot water, but anything else will fall down. Then let the pot cool and put it in the fridge to solidify the grease. You can then scoop the now-solid grease in big chunks and put it back in the jar and discard any bits in the water.
I learned this from people who do at-home soap-making from their rendered fats. They would repeat it a few times before adding lye, as it will leach impurities such as salt, aromatic and favor compounds from the fat, but I find doing it once or twice leaves me with a nice cooking fat that still has bacon-y aroma.
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that's animal abuse!
but he's so cute and round now 🥰
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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.
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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.
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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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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
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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...
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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?
10g more than likely 10k typo (perhaps more brain than body/finger typo, there a word for that?)
Oh, “thinko”
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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.
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Whatever is downstream of my sink should be built to handle food waste. That must include fats. Not my fault if they half-assed it honestly. Build a better world next time.
Yes, it is your fault for thinking you know better than centuries of plumbing experience. Pull your head out of your ass and stop pouring grease and melted fat down the sink, you inept heathen.
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I started pouring mine in to an ash bucket I use for the open fire. The ash soaks it up and it all gets thrown out in to the bin
Isn't this how soap is made?
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Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.
Rent goes up, oil goes down
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You could throw it into the fire and get some extra warmth.
We had a fireplace at my parents' house, we used to burn grease and used oil all the time, until we had our first maintenance.
Let's say the chimney sweep wasn't amused
