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.
Paper towel -> trash.
Also a reason why we don’t deep fry something and only fry semi submerged
I have a spot in my yard that I pour cooking oil.
Are you renting or do you own?
And if you rent, do you like the town?
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Down the drain, the tenant special.
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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Citation needed.
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.
I let it cool off and then scrape it into the trash/compost. Sometimes I use a paper towel, sometimes I just scrape it.
Good for a cold winter chimney firing.
Saw this thread from a mile away and ran to tell everyone I don’t have that problem because I own an air fryer
My main source of grease and oil is from stuff i cook in my airfryer lol
Does your airfryer nor drip the fat off of bacon? Or other fatty meat?
You out there making sunny side eggs with an airfryer?
Cooking some burgers in an air fryer recently, and it definitely leaves a lot of oil to dispose of!
We are gods among rodents, you and I.
Goes into the compost.
But the salt.
It’s generally just animal fat for me, unsalted. I make a lot of soup stocks.
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.
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.
Depends how much is left. Alot then filter and jar. A little then paper towel and trash.
Uwu, its sooooooo cut. They’re magestic horns; and the lux fur, et al. Their snaggle teeth, that pacific one, is just hte peice of resistance!
I think it’s a Shih-Tzu
A filter? What you doing with the filter?
Filtering out any chunky bits from the cooking so it doesn’t go back into the fat jar
Oh you are reusing the fat in the jar.
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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 🥲
Lick it off
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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.
