Ok pro tip for getting rid of your grease that doesn’t assume you have infinite containers lying around or make you wait forever for it to solidify.
Put a sheet of aluminum foil down over your drain so it creates a cup. Then pour your grease in that cup. Then drop an ice cube in if you feel like it.
Then just lift the edges and twist the top of your foil and put it in the trash.
or just put flour on it. Corn Flour works best
What does that do I haven’t heard this trick
Sounds like the start to a yummy gravy lol
Aluminium foil needs a lot of energy to produce. I’d recommend an old newspaper or (non laminated) cardboard to soak it up. If you plan a barbecue anytime soon, you can use the greasy paper as a perfect firestarter. Otherwise just put it in the trash when cold.
…Why not just wipe the pan out with a paper towel and throw it in the trash? If you bunch up a few of them and move quickly, you can do this while the pan is still kinda warm, even.
This is what I do, not sure why it’s so hard to throw stuff in the trash lol
More oil
Versus?
If you use not that much oil, it’s easier to wipe it up with paper towel, but it’s starts wasting it when you’ve used more oil
If I’m in between jars i put the tin foil in a bowl and do the same but after pouring put the bowl on the counter so family doesn’t accidentally toss a dish in there.
I still feel a can is the easiest and least wasteful solution. You pour the grease in and put the can in the cupboard until next time. Unless you’re cooking bacon all the time, it takes a long time to fill up. You don’t need more than one or have to wait.
I can just see people trying this for the first time, knocking the foil out of alignment and pouring a whole pan of hot grease down the drain
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Mhhmm, bacon.
Also you don’t destroy your sewage treatment facilities that way.
Hmm, you know, how many people actually have newspapers lying around anymore?
Just sign up for the local church’s newsletter or use the spam in your mailbox with the local grocer’s weekly deals. It’s free garbage!
I still get half a tree worth of sale ads every week
Oh those ones in the mail? Yeah I guess those are probably pretty similar paper!
I let it cool and then scrape it into our food waste bin. (I don’t know if grease composts but for us it’s moot; the city doesn’t compost food waste but instead makes it into pig feed or something.)
You’re making them into cannibals!!
Macon loves bacon!
I mean… aren’t they already? My understanding of pigs is that they literally eat just about anything.
havent cooked bacon in like 10 years. Forgot this was a problem.
I usually have so little oil left I just put enough dish soap in that it all mixes with water… Does that still clog my pipes?
You’re better off wiping it with a paper towel and throwing that out
Yes, but not because of the oil. Pipes often clog due to a buildup of soap. Don’t use more soap than you need, which for most people is about 10 times less than what they use now.
As long as I rent, it goes down the drain.
Then you are a shitty tennant.
I think that’s the idea, yes. Fight shit with shit.
Ruin someone else’s house because you don’t like to be a tennant. I swear people on lemmy are fucked in the head.
Now I’m gonna start liking landlords, thank you.
Buddy we all want huge mansions. The reality of the world is, that housing is scarce. Renting from someone to specifically be a shitty tennant just makes you a miserable person to be around. It also gives them a good reason to kick your ass to the curb.
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Housing/Tables/vacancy-rate.html
Scarce, my ass. Landlords and especially “investors” are manufacturing that scarcity squeeze more money out of us. I don’t want a “big mansion”, I just want my place to have more square meters than my fucking skin surface. But I don’t have that. I pay over 300 Euros for one room. Not a one room apartment, mind you. One. FUCKING. Room. And a fucking small one at that.
I’m not saying be a shitty tenant for being a shitty tenant’s sake. But also don’t put in any extra special effort to be a nice one. The better reason to store away fat is that you can reuse it. Plus, it also creates a general sewage problem, not just in your drain, which is bad for all of society in your municipality.
Pouring grease down the drain is being a shitty tennant to your landlord, plain and simple. Some people might not know, that’s fine. But if they learn about it and keep doing them, then they deserve eviction.
Buddy we all want huge mansions. The reality of the world is, that housing is scarce.
No I don’t and no it isn’t.
Not agreeing with being a shitty person but those two points are simply bullshit.
Not just tenant. That can affect everyone around you as well.
Correct. Grease down the drain is simply not based.
Everyone from neighbors to sewage workers to the environment will have to put up with it.
Even with our grievances against the ownership of some things, I think we should all be agreeing with “Don’t crap (or otherwise ruin) where you eat.” Or has the world really reached such a point of madness where that idea is contested too?
Oh, would I be creating an inconvenience for the guy who feels the need to run his leaf blower every week to push dust around? God forbid
You’re taking this random anger out on a hired contractor? The hell?
Possibly him, possibly others you don’t know.
Fuck landlords. Housing is a human right not an investment
Owner occupancy credit against property taxes to hold them at their current rates, or even drop them a bit. Next, we target an 85% owner-occupancy rate, increasing the property taxes every year that owner-occupancy rate is below 80%, and reducing them any time it is above 90%. We will end up with a massive increase in property tax rates, but those increased taxes will only be paid by investors.
On-site landlords, living in one unit of a duplex, triplex, or quadplex will be able to claim the credit. Off-site landlords, (or landlords living in a complex of 5 or more units) will not be able to claim the credit.
Investor-owners will be fighting tooth and nail to convert their tenants into buyers: they will be offering land contracts, private mortgages, converting apartments to condominiums, etc. They will be earning considerably greater profits selling than they would be able to renting, while charging less.
Lenders who elect to foreclose will be saddled with the property tax rate from the moment they file, so they will have one hell of a financial incentive to cooperate with the borrower.
An owner-occupancy tax credit will give renting the death it deserves.
This sounds extremely effective at shifting housing stock. My only question is what happens to people who can’t get mortgages yet? You can’t just give out a mortgage to anyone who asks. The banks did effectively that in the lead up to 2008 and we saw how that worked out (granted the specifics are far more muddy, but it is a period in recent history where many people qualified for mortgages they shouldn’t have qualified for, and a ton of people ended up foreclosing
What does that have to do with pouring grease down the drain? Whether you agree with landlords or not it’s objectively not the right thing to do and if anything will just be a pain in the ass for the next tenant
It’s Boomer mentality, plain and simple. “It won’t affect me, so Not My Problem™️”
People like this are why I am hesitant to rent. I don’t need the investment, but I’m good at owning and keeping up property, and I’ve thought about renting out my spare area at below cost just so someone can have a cheaper place to live, just while I pay it off. Like hey, I have a spare suite in my house, someone could live there since I don’t need the space. It’s not the Ritz, but a young couple trying to get started or a young family could use it while they save up for a down payment.
Then someone comes along and says “yeah I’m going to trash it because fuck landlords”. Like, ok, fuck me for trying to provide a cheaper alternative to the huge corporate housing. Guess I deserve it for … Reasons
I’m renting half someone’s basement right now in a situation like you’re describing. I’m very grateful to them for the opportunity and am not surreptitiously destroying their home. I’ve actually done several repairs for them since I started living here. I’ve known them for a long time though so they knew they could trust me.
That’s who I’d love to rent to. It’s now about profit for me, but more I have property and I can rent for under value. People are freaking assholes though.
This video haunts me, I saw it originally years ago, this guy breaking down over what renters did to his property: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIgGkA5tXM
So when are you going out and building houses for free for people to use?
If only we had some sort of overarching body that could collect taxes and spend that money on housing… maybe call it a government?!?
So vote for people who do that. Except you won’t find any, because it’s a fever dream. No government can afford just building houses for millions of people. Some have tried and ended up with consequences that they deal with till today
The Soviet Union literally did exactly that
No it didn’t and that’s not how it works. Also living in the Soviet Union fucking sucked and reading about it on the internet won’t give you the full picture.
You’re not just being inconsiderate to your landlord, though — ‘Monster’ fatberg found blocking east London sewer
Perhaps the endorphin hit from sticking it to your landlord makes it all worthwhile.
“Monster” fatberg found blocking east London sewer
I was wondering why I hadn’t seen your mom around lately
Which reminds me yours still owes me for the Uber.
And so does the money.
This year, on some random holiday, I had to take 20ft of piping out of the walls and remove one solid block of hardened grease that had accumulated there, blocking the pipes, causing dirt water to flow back into the kitchen and into appliances. What a joy that was… the stench alone.
Don’t flush grease down the drain.
Yeah, I think the greese has seen enough generations by now .
I agree, it should have ended after Ancient Greese.
Cook bacon in the oven in aluminum foil (it’s better that way anyway) put paper towels in to soak the grease crumple it all into a wad and throw it away in the trash… ?
Bonus points for using a microwave oven
The aluminum foil can catch fire if you did it that way…
Just creating plasma, ignore me…
That just means the bacon will cook faster, right? Sounds like a win.
Oh, better put a metal lid over it to keep that from happening, then!
:o really
You can actually pour it into a can or container, put a wick (or make one out of paper towel) and burn it like a candle. The aroma actually isn’t that strong since it’s mostly fat and it doesn’t sputter or anything. The solids sink to the bottom while solidifying.
The trick is to save many jars, so you can really go out in style.
I have an ex who was a self-described jar goblin and fancied herself a witch. Somehow, she couldn’t conjure up a fucking job the entire time we were together. I keep as few jars in my home as possible now, and I use the two little heart-handled spoons she left behind when she moved as solely to scoop wet cat food from the tin because fuck her.
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…fancied herself a witch. Somehow, she couldn’t conjure up a fucking job
I’m sorry for your pain, but I laughed out loud at this. Guffawed, even.
why the hell would someone throw out perfectly good bacon grease? or is that the joke, that the third fellow is deranged?
You don’t pour grease down the drain, it fucks up the plumbing.
well yeah, but also, you don’t pour grease down the drain so you can use it later. any time i’m pan frying anything, the pan gets a bit of bacon grease. if i accumulate enough of it, i’ll use it for deep frying too. throwing it out, down the drain or in the trash just does not make sense to me.
In Japan there’s a powder you can buy at shops that solidifies any pools of grease you drop it into, so you can then scrape it into the garbage.
I was going to share a link but all I could find was Amazon product pages and greasy blogs funneling you towards Amazon product pages, but you can find it by searching “Japan grease powder”.Unused kitty litter works great.
Used kitty litter probably also works. Hey, I don’t judge others’ fetishes.
greasy blogs
tbf you searched for something grease related so that’s exactly the kind of blog that should appear
Oh yeah I really believe you “Japan grease powder”
Sounds so much like “if you don’t believe me search Japan grease rule 34”
I’m like 98% sure if I search for that I won’t like what I see.
Reduce FOG. Fats, Oils, Greases.
Especially if you’re on septic. You can have clean pipes and a bricked tank or even worse clogged drainfield.
Sewage backing up into the home, or surfacing in the yard, and now the house is posted for non-occupancy and a 20-80k repair or replacement.
Gotem.
Yeah, I wish I knew this when I was growing up. My parents had so many problems with septic, and I’m sure some of them were what we put down the drain. We cost my parents so much money
Ah don’t be ashamed of not having known though. I used to work for a health department and did a lot of outreach in rural communities. It’s amazing how little knowledge of wastewater systems there is out there. Education on private infrastructure is lacking. People might learn about public treatment plants (seriously Ms Frizzle’s Magic School Bus is the primary common point of reference) and assume their house is served by the same: even when miles out side a city off a forestry road.
Putting grease down the drain can clog your pipes. Don’t do that. Use one of the many alternatives (see meme and comments).
Yes, but not just your own pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
Alternatives to block your pipes: paint, dry wall sealant, cum, cement.
So I put cum in jar?
No no, you cum in the sink
I’d rather cum in the sink than sink in the cum
Cum always goes into the box!!
You guys don’t use socks? Or boxes.
What about coconuts?
Smdh if you dont add pan drippings to your beans.
After cooking the rice?
Nah, put the rice in the pot first then pour the drippings in and stir it all around with a fork.
Then add the water and cook as you normally would
Frying some uncooked rice in oil gives it a nice flavor (you then cook the rice like you normally would, unless you want some flavorful uncooked crunchy rice) - it might be worth testing out this process using pan drippings