Breaking the generational barriers

I can't tell if people here are pouring their grease down the drain.

The answer is don't. "It will be fine" for the person who told you that it will be fine, but it will absolutely fail for you. You know that by now. Also that guy is lying and already had to snake his drain but won't tell you that.

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

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.
- People who pour grease down the drain have definitely never unclogged a drain before.
  Usually something like half fibers (hair, tampons, "flushable" wipes, etc), half grease and fats.
  If it's a solid at room temp, it probably shouldn't go down the drain.
Keep it in a mug by the sink
Every time the mug fills up, dump it into a pot of very hot water, give it a stir, pour it into a mason jar, seal it tightly, and put it in the fridge upside down.
When it's cold, dump out the water, scrape the thin top layer of crap off, and voila, you have perfectly usable high smoke point salted lard for frying.
If you fry fresh pork belly, save that fat separately, do the same thing, and you have pure lard.
- Or, alternatively, you could eat healthy.
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.
Cost us over $200 to get a plumber to fix the drain when my partner decided to feed an entire jar of whole pickles into the garbage disposal.
- Why would pickles fuck it up?
As a renter, that's the way it goes
- If housing as an investment has created a circumstance where young people can no longer afford homes then it's in those young peoples best interest to sour the investment class.

Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.

Obligatory response to this meme e'er time, "Sigh, if it's on septic its massively expensive infrastructure the tenant will be held liable for 10/10 times, and will only render one less living space habitable. And if it's on sewer it's punishing the public's wastewater treatment facility."
Aand resume.
- If it's septic it's whatever. Bigger issue if it's not, then tax dollars are required to fix it, and it's just wrecking infrastructure
The plummer cost will most likely be for you if it clogs the drain, otherwise you have a pretty good landlord.

It isn't put in the jar to throw away, its put in the jar to cook more food with later

For maximum enjoyment, drink it directly from the jar. Preferably while warm.
And use for tortillas and savory pie crust.
When my grandma had "too much" of it she would mix it with seeds and put it out for the woodpeckers in winter
- Bacon grease chocolate chip cookies...
  I shit you not.
How long does bacon grease last? How can I tell if it went bad? Does it last longer in the fridge?
- It'll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it's still hot. And when ya use it, don't double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
- You can freeze it!

Let it be the landlord's problem.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550465000/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-rock-solid-sewer-blockage
You're not just "sticking it to the man" when you do this though --- you're being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
- that's the city's fault for banning private septic systems
Yeah.
They're not doing maintenance until something happens.
Like waste water coming up your drains, flooding your apartment with black, hardened, crystalized fat and stinking water because your upstairs neighbor has the washing machine running but the water can't go anywhere because the waste water main is clogged somewhere between your flat and the one below yours. This will happen on the day after tradies finish putting new laminate flooring in your entire apartment.
Don't ask me how I know.
It ruins things for everyone in your local area though. Fatburgs aren't localised to your landlords house.
- Exactly.
  Concrete in the toilet, now that's an idea.
"Yeah take that landlord!"
clogs their own pipes*
Like a landlord is going to fix your clogged drain anytime soon. They're not your mom, they're a business. You'll be lucky if a plumber comes out in a couple of weeks.
The tenant special

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.

“But Dad, my heart hurts.”
- Butter is already like 90% fat.
- If you aren’t the kind of person who eats bacon to get that bacon fat from in the first place, feel free to ignore.
- For those not getting it: https://youtu.be/WL_lS_FsMvk
- In my house, you'll do what I do, and believe what I believe.
I love America
- I guess they have been trained to not value valuable things so they can buy new things to serve that same purpose? I stayed with someone who threw away all the white part of his leeks because that was all just root and they once touched dirt or something.
If I cook a bunch of bacon, im using that bacon greased up pan to cook up a bunch of other food before i clean it. It makes everything taste so much better.
- hmm, my cookies taste weird now, but okay
If possible I save the grease. My house is next to a river, so I made it a habbit to not just throw away food but feed it to the fish. Sometimes we have leftovers and it's been a little too long to eat, so I throw it in the river.
- That's smart. Then you have a steady supply of fresh fish.
Ran out of butter last week and found out when I went to make a little bit of fudge. I used the bacon fat I strain and keep in a jar in the fridge. I usually don't care for bacon tasting desserts, but I wasn't mad about that decision at all.
Firestarter kits are weirdly expensive why would you eat the best accelerate?
Keep them money saved by using bacon grease for heart disease later on.
- The savings go into the next pack of bacon, creating an endless bacon grease hack.
You can also make soap out of it, and you get some curious byproducts!

Says people who have never lived alone.

Like you don't even have to be a homeowner to know not to do this! I know this is shit posting, but there ain't no way you make it to reproductive age without figuring this one dumb thing out‽

Some people (like Ben Shapiro and his ilk) make it to adulthood not knowing how to do laundry or clean the dishes in the first place. ... and they're proud of it.
- I got a comment from a few months back about my fellow cis hetiods about how it's so strange that there is a non insignificant number that don't even wipe their own ass!
  Like I said I'm cis het, but I would sooner take a dick in the ass than deal with the fucker itching all day!
  Also didn't the found of the proof boys(Gavin something or another) take a dildo in the ass live and on air because he thought it would upset liberals? Yeah, these right winged pricks need to just embrace the fact, that they might be bi.(I say bi specifically cause they don't sound like Lindsey Graham)
Newer generations and less likely to own homes due to global housing markets cooling down. This is directly proportional to the inverse of fucks residents have about plumbering.
That said I wasn't raised to know this until the internet taught me. Then I started freezing them in cans and tossing in the trash.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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...

Can, pour the grease into a can. Glass is likely to energetically and spontaneously disassemble when temperature shock occurs.

Yeah you don't pour it immediately. You wait for it to cool off a bit.
- Pour it when it's hot and you don't have as much cleaning.
Excess coffee cups received as gifts work too.
- Yeah I've never had one break

Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.

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.
- Yup, the convenience if throwing grease down the drain is absolutely nullified by taking a half day to deal with a plumber/landlord/handyman because you can't flush a turd. Let it cool, pour it into a soda bottle.
- Good. Disrupt the system. Until young people can purchase homes at similar rates to healthy countries then young people should escalate civil disobedience.
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
- It helps the eels get a better connection with the car battery. You want to help them recharge dont you?
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
- It fucks up the whole neighborhood dummy

why would you bother with a jar? just leave the pan to cool then wipe it up with some paper and toss it in the food waste bin

why would you bother with a jar? just leave the pan to cool then wipe it up with some paper and toss it in the ~~food waste bin~~ drain.
I use a jar because saved bacon grease makes for a tasty pre-salted lipid additive for free!
Because I add the grease to my compost heap and I don't like paper towel.
- I hate using paper towels. I use those silicone flexible spatulas to get the oil that's taking too long to drop down.
- My compost heap is now 80% bears. Did I do it wrong?
because popping corn in the bacon grease is the tastiest thing ever.

Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology

The jar got stuck in my drain.

The jar got stuck in my ~~drain~~ anus.
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It's not about keeping grease out of the drain, it's about not wasting cooking oil. As a Brit I recommend frying your whole breakfast in bacon dripping. Especially the mushrooms and tomatoes.

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.

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.
- throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now
  e: oh it's GIVE it away. Also a grease jar option!
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
- Why into general waste? Just put it with the other glass, they wash that anyway.
  (Btw they are not happy that you do this, but whatever)
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.
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.
- 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.
There's a movie called The Greasy Strangler that reveals all.
- That’s a dirty movie, for naughty people.
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.
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.
Pour it in an empty jar. let it cool and then put it in the fridge. It keeps nearly indefinitely.
- But why do I wanna keep it? To re use it? Why is it better? Can I use it a third time? Fourth?

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.

Counterpoint: if you rent, put everything down the drain you can. Stop taking your garbage out, just blend it and down the drain it goes. Everything goes down the drain. It's like a magic hole that erases all of your sins!!
- I’m with in you in spirit, but then I’d have to live with consequential stink of my own actions.

I always chug a beer/soda, open the top of the can using a can opener, and pour the grease into that.

NOTE: make sure all the liquid is out of the bottom of the can (maybe wipe it down with a towel) or else the grease may shoot back out

Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
I use discarded cat food tins. Pour the grease into the tin, wait for it to solidify, toss in trash.

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

Don't tell me how to live 🦅🇺🇸
- If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.

Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.

Rent goes up, oil goes down
- That’s what I always say

Just throw some dishwasher detergent down there once a month. It'll be fine.

I once cut out a piece of pipe in some guys home, because it was all fucked. The pipe was suuuuper heavy and upon inspection it looked like someone poured concrete down there. It was very hard to clean, the guy had to hammer on it while having a pressure washer wash it out. As it turns out, his wife used multiple washing tabs in the machine to make it extra clean. She did that for over a decade.
- Well she clearly wasn't preheating her hot tap water.
  /s
- Yeah, you can also fuck up your dishwasher pipes very quickly by using descaling meant for washing machines. Because of the salt you already add.

Dad owned a low rent apartment house. people would put chicken bones in the drain and then call because the drain backed up. and take bulbs out of the hallway lights. He'd laugh about it then fix the stuff because he wasn't a good slum-lord. Probably never broke even

Step 1: Get chickens

Step 2: add oats ( oat flakes ) to the pan with grease

Step 3: stir until they've absorbed the fat

Step 4: treat the chickens

Step 5: ??????

Step 6: Profit!

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Only poor it down the drain if you rent! Never when you own!

Yeah great. When it clogs up the sewage, tell that to the workes who have to clean your shit up.
https://rics.scene7.com/is/image/rics/Modus_oct21_fatberg_header?%24article-big-img-desktop-large%24=&op_sharpen=1
- That's a job for the owners, not the renters
- that's what the water bill covers, is it not?

IF you absolutely must do this, make sure to fill the bottom of the sink with a little bit of cold standing water first. This helps to break up the grease and seal in the juices.

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

How much grease are you guys using in america

Burn the grease in woodstove or fireplace for extra heat

If you're renting, maybe it's not your problem. The landlords jack us for rent, so we mess with their drains. Meh.

Should we respect our landlords, you might ask? That depends on them. Respect is earned.

Throwing away animal fat and oil is failing at cooking

And probably buying shitty meats for starters.
- Yeah well only a shit cook would think that oil coming off means bad meat.
  I know that people don't know fuck all about cooking, yourself included.

My mum used to have a lard jar that was a mix of concealed bacon fat and god knows what else. Not a fan.

the pipes can handle it

should*

Pipes are made for liquids. Congealed fat is not a liquid. Pipes should not be made to handle things that aren't meant to go in them.

Get a drain snake, they're like $10 and its saved me from calling a plumber 13 times at least.

that's animal abuse!
- but he's so cute and round now 🥰🐍
- No its not abuse, hes doing what he loves which is clearing drains.
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...

You shouldn’t pour it down the drain for obvious reasons but putting it in a jar is weird af. Is there some actual reason for the jar that I don’t know? Whenever I have to do the dishes and there is a lot of grease in a pan I just put a few papertowels (if needed) in the trash and pour the grease in there. When I’m done with the dishes I take the trash out.

In Germany you can get a free bucket for collecting grease at your local recycling center. When its full, you exchange it for an empty one.
- Really? Thats pretty cool fr. Is that offered to dissuade people from pouring it down the drain?
- I think that is specific for your town/city. We don't have that in my city, nor in other cities I lived in before.
  But tbh, if you are not deepfrying a lot of stuff, letting it cool down, whiping the oil out with a paper towel is normally enough. If this isn't enough, people normally use old glass jar and throw it into the Restmüll (this is also how our local waste company tells us to do it). Naturally, there are different solutions available for industrial cases.
Depends on how much grease you have— always stored bacon grease in glass jars to use later for greasing pans and given bacony flavor. Secondly, grease pours easily and is liquid when hot, but because it’s hot you can’t pour it into the trash, or wipe it clean with paper towels as mentioned. You have to let it cool which means it becomes more of a mess.
- with Premium Brand paper towels it really doesn't matter, you can let the pan cool down and then wipe it with the paper towel. Works really good
- Yes but hot grease can damage plumbing and cool fast enough to cause clogging over time. Pour it down the sink is totally fine, but you gotta run hot water with it
I only use a few paper towels cleaning out the jar when it's full. That's my reasoning.

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

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
Isn't this how soap is made?
- TIL

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

I wish they carried it in the markets here. I just looked it up, looks like it's just Steric Acid. You can buy a whole pound for $15.... gonna five that a try.
- am keen to know your results! please post :)

I LOVE IT

what was the original comic?

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so much good lard gets tossed out, i know this may be unpopular opinion, but much healthier than any ~~vegetable~~ seed oil

yeah it's unpopular because it's nonsense
- seed oils have a high omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, and know to be inflammatory and contribute to chronic disease, including type 2 diabetes, one of the biggest killers of western society. before the XX century, we used mostly lard, tallow or olive oil, back then atherosclerosis wasn't a issue as it is today
https://youtu.be/efTBLsv4yYs

Fuck that noice! Sometimes I buy bacon only because my fat jar is empty. That shit is gold for cooking with.

pour maritime hydraulic oil down the drain

Finally, a solution to deal with the used 47 tons of Castrol Cyltech 40 XDC that I've had sitting around forever.

We always have at least one thing on our counter that would otherwise be thrown into recycling, but it was rinsed and kept because it'll make a good grease receptacle.

Honestly never heard of that, but I'm also a bit lost in translation. Does this have any relevance to a person that only uses olive and sunflower oil and doesn't eat any meat?

Fatty meat will result in a lot of grease that if poured down the sink will solidify on the walls of your drain pipes.
- But if it is only that, a few paper towels should be enough to catch the grease.
Öl will solidify as well, even if it takes a lower temperature than meat drippings. Use a paper towel to soak up leftover oil and dispose of it in the Restmüll.

But its delicious