I used to pour it into a glass jar. But these days I’m just using a paper towel or 3 after it dries and chuckin it in the bin.
I just wash my pan normally. The amount of leftover oil is negligible.
If I deep fry something (which I pretty much never do), I put in a glass jar and throw it into the bin.
What I totally don’t ever do under any circumstance at anytime for any reason even though it’s super convenient and easy is pour it down the sink. Yes sir. That’s not something I ever, ever do! Wouldn’t it be crazy if I did? Omg. So crazy!
Stopped deep frying. Partly for health and partly out of laziness.
I was talking about just in your pan. Like after bacon or whatever
I currently use (probably too many) paper towels to absorb the oil and then toss them into the trash can. I’m not happy with this solution, but I don’t want to pour it down the drain.
I found this the other day https://fryaway.co/ but I haven’t tried it yet. It’s supposed to make the oil solid so you can more easily toss it.
Looks interesting but not at that price point for me. Seems more expensive than paper towels and probably worse overall for the environment since it’d be heavier than paper towel to transport to the store. Would be interesting to compare the carbon footprint. I also like how nowhere on the page did it compare it to paper toweling it into the trash. Just pouring it down a sink or putting it in a jar lol. That’s marketing
You can compost it if you aren’t generating huge amounts. Mix it with something absorbent like sawdust or used coffee grounds and mix into a composter, and add extra “green material” like leaves or lawn clippings.
Fried bread!
I usually just pour it over the rice or macaroni or whatever, to consume whatever little is there, so as not to waste it, and for flavor.
I try to fry stuff in tallow as well, which is a lot nicer IMO.
Are you renting or do you own?
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Our city’s trash disposal also provides free plastic buckets for cooking oil. I try to use that as often as possible. I love it
Oh that’s cool actually. I hadn’t heard of that before.
Depends on what kind of leftover fat.
If frying something in measurable quantities of oil, the oil can be filtered to remove solids, then stored to re-use later.
If cooking something greasy like bacon or sausage, either I’ll cook other things in the same pan after, or I’ll pour it through a strainer, let it cool, and freeze it. Once I’ve saved a bunch, I clarify it.
Fat is flavor. In my house, it doesn’t get thrown away. There are lots of ways to reuse it.
Reusing cooking oil causes cancer. I thought this was wildly known, but I’m consistently surprised at how many people online say things like this.
This is why “drip jars” stopped being used in the 20th century. There used to be one in every house until it was understood it causes stomach cancer.
https://www.sfa.gov.sg/food-safety-tips/food-risk-concerns/risk-at-a-glance/reusing-cooking-oils
But singapore site links USDA q&a on how to reuse it safely and has section for “what you need to do if you reuse oil”. They don’t particularly advice or encourage single use.
Oil quality is dependent on storage method (strain it with filter, keep airtight non-transparent container etc) and cooking temperature so people need to be informed, but I don’t see reusing it once or twice with appropriate care cause significant harm.
That’s if you take it beyond the smoke point. Which you wouldn’t do if you are trying to avoid free radicals in your food to begin with. Even vegetable oil is extracted through a heating process.
Popcorn made in pre-used oil can be awesome, and an easy way to get rid of 100ml or so.
Omfg…bacon grease popcorn…I’m about to take 10 years off my life
Hell yea. I used some oil recently that had be used to good something (IDK… housemate food) with heaps of curry powder flavours and some chilli. That was awesome.
Popcorn made in pre-used oil can be awesome, and an easy way to get rid of 100ml or so.
Then there was that time in college I tried to re-use oil I had previously fried shrimp in.
Turns out shrimp-flavored popcorn is not an enjoyable experience!
Some lessons only take once to cement the learning for a lifetime.
Haha, yeah. Also, anything with too many burnt carbs is not great.
What kind of filter?
Sounds pretty good. Oil is expensive too.
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A generic insurance website is not a citation.
And literally everything causes cancer.
People have reused cooking oil for millennia.
Here’s another website. Google used to be so much easier to use.
https://www.sfa.gov.sg/food-safety-tips/food-risk-concerns/risk-at-a-glance/reusing-cooking-oils
Singapore is a solid source, right? It’s bizarre to me that this isn’t more widely known.
Wipe with paper towel, toss in trash.
If it cools into a solid fat then it goes in a bowl and put it outside for wildlife to enjoy some easy calories. A trail cam and some time has given me a good chunk of backyard nocturnal drama, like the falling out of two tomcats.
Liquid fat/oil is used to re-season pans or soaked up with a paper towel and dumped.
Man, living in a house sounds so cool sometimes 🥲
I let it cool off and then scrape it into the trash/compost. Sometimes I use a paper towel, sometimes I just scrape it.
Goes into the compost.
But the salt.
Not all oil is salty. I suppose there are probably pros and cons to composting it, but I’d expect it to draw pests like crazy.
Lick it off
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