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the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

So around Friday of last week, my ground level apartment started to have a weird, foul, smell. It got worse and worse, until Monday morning, when my toilet stopped flushing and the drains took forever to clear.

By then the smell was horrid, like a mixture of skunk, piss, and decay. Thankfully for me, my toilet suddenly started working for a couple of hours Monday night, but then stopped working by Tuesday morning. Around 3pm on Tuesday, they finished repairing the sewage pipe, but the smell lingers on.

This also happened maybe 6-8 months ago, and it took 7-10 days for the smell to finally dissipate. I expect it will take that long this time as well.

Judging by the notice left on all of our doors, that threatened to charge the person or persons responsible for flushing “flushable” wipes and cigarette butts (???) as well as dumping oil down the drain, our sewage pipe must have been completely blocked up. Without inspecting each unit, I doubt they will be able to assign blame, so whoever did it will likely get away with it.

I have nothing to worry about, as I never pour oil down the drain, I don’t smoke cigarettes, and I only ever use toilet paper in the bathroom. Whoever invented “flushable” wipes deserve a punch in the fucking face. Now my apartment smells absolutely terrible, and likely will continue to do so for a week or so.

For the love of god, do not dump oil down the drain! It’s so easy to pour it into a jar, then use a paper towel to wipe the rest of the oil out of the pot/pan. It makes actually cleaning the cookware that much easier as well.

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[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] polle@feddit.org 31 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

It also fucks up the main plumbing system right down to the water treatment facility and while there, it fucks that too.

If your taxes pay for wastewater management, you're fucking yourself up.
If you pay in addition to your taxes, you're fucking yourself up.
If you have your own septic tank, you're fucking yourself up.
If it flows to the river directly and you enjoy clean nature, you're fucking yourself up.
If it flows to the river directly and your taxes pay for nature maintenance, you're fucking yourself up.

Grease down the drain is fucking yourself up and you deserve it. You can not win with it unless you hate everything around you and don't pay taxes.. It will come back to bite you.

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[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago

It helps the eels get a better connection with the car battery. You want to help them recharge dont you?

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I don't give a fuck, it's not my house and as soon as they jack up the rent we're out of here

I might care if I ever own a home, but I really don't think it will ever happen

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

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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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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.

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I just take a piece of aluminum foil and press it into the sink drain so it makes a little cup. Then pour the oil into that foil. Then drop an ice cube in to help it solidify and cool a bit then I grab the foil corners and twist them up and dump it in the trash.

It’s quick and easy and neat.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

I just pour the grease from mine into a ramekin and then put that in the refrigerator, optionally cover it with plastic wrap if you are worried about contamination or smell. Most people use a jar with a lid but I don't cook fatty meats often enough to need a jar for all the grease I produce. If you left the pan out after cooking/overnight and the grease solidified before you could pour it, just heat it up again on the stove or in the oven until it turns back into a liquid. Obviously, wait until the pan has cooled enough to handle it without burning yourself while doing this pouring step, hot grease burns like hell and will send you straight to the emergency room with 3rd degree burns if it gets spilled on you.

Once it's in the container and in the refrigerator, it will solidify into a scoopable/spreadable semi-solid with a texture somewhere in between butter and ice cream. You can use it in place of fats or oils in other recipes (for example, if you need to grease a pan with butter or cooking spray before cooking, you can use a spoonful of the solid bacon grease instead). If you don't want to use it and just want to dispose of it safely instead, just wait for it to solidify in the fridge and then scoop it into the trash. Takes about two seconds and won't clog your plumbing

It does go bad eventually. The grease will get rancid if left alone for too long, and it will start to smell foul and anything you cook with it will taste terrible and make you sick. If you are going to save it, use it within a month or so if you leave it uncovered, or covered it can last longer but give it a smell test before you put it in a pan - it should have a neutral smell at room temperature and be white in color or have a very slight yellowish hue. Throw it out if you see any spots or discoloration.

A steak cooked in bacon grease is next level delicious. You should try it.

[–] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now

e: oh it's GIVE it away. Also a grease jar option!

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

  • Caramelizing onions? Slap a dollop of bacon grease into the pan first.

  • Pancakes? Pancakes with a soupçon of bacon.

  • Eggs? Obviously.

  • 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.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 17 hours ago

Please don't pour fat down the drain. Starving children in Africa could use that bacon grease!

[–] Keener@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You could throw it into the fire and get some extra warmth.

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 83 points 1 day ago (12 children)

As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I briefly worked for a plumber during my college days to make money. He said the people who kept him in business were people who poured grease down the drain and also people who flushed tampons.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Are you the same people complaining about increasing food prices who are also throwing away the best part? The bacon is the byproduct. People! Save this grease and use it when another recipe calls for butter.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 day ago (5 children)

“But Dad, my heart hurts.”

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