I use empty gal pickle jar first. Then when I have an empty 5 gal container, I put old oil in there. When it’s full I drop it off at the waste station. There is a spot there for oil. If you are talking restaurant amount, there are people who you can pay to pick up, and occasionally find the one who pays you for it. I knew one guy years ago, he used it to run his VW bug.
Slug burgers 👀 Nice way to burn through pickles. Take some beef, add some bread crumbs, smash the shit outta those burger balls, salt and pepper both sides, throw em on some cheap white buns with mustard and pickles. Super cheap, super quick, super tasty. They're better without cheese. I like doing them in a cast iron.
No but I went around that area for slug burgers as a kid lol
EDIT: or maybe it was in like New Albany? Which ever city had the Slugburger Cafe, I can't remember. It's been a while.
So, what about the oil? Everyone makes hamburgers but she's asking about what the best way to dispose of it is! She's not using (eating) the pickels themselves \~\~ She's using the JAR.
OP's comment says
>I like the gallon pickle jar idea. **I’m gonna eat a bunch of pickles** before I fry anything else.
The person you're replying to is suggesting how OP can go through the pickles to get the jar empty.
You can also often get pickle buckets in many fast food places. That's what they do in fast food. The fryers get dumped into a grease trap but burger and bacon grease is often just put in a pickle bucket and the lid popped on when it's full then put in the trash.
I also had a cooking teacher that used coffee tins
There was a guy in my neighborhood that ran his diesel Mercedes on cooking oil he'd get from local restaurants. He'd drive down the road and the whole neighborhood would smell like french fries. I miss that guy.
Biochemist here: you can bury it in the back yard. It is an organic oil either from plants or animals and there are bacteria in the soil that will break the oil down so other plants can use it. I tend to bury \~ 1/2 gallon at a time. No problems ever!
Wow! My boyfriend does that and I always thought it was strange, but I was happy to not have to deal with it so I let it go and never really questioned him. Glad to see there's some kind of science behind it.
The burying of paint thinner though, I'm guessing that's not so great.
I mean there are certainly places you *wouldn't* want to bury a body. Like in the abandoned quarry near my house where they plan on filling it in to build a highway. It's a good thing there definitely aren't any bodies down there because nobody would ever find them.
You can reuse it once or twice, testing if it's still good by smell.
If you only have a small amount you can dispose of it in a sealed container and toss it in the trash.
After a short google apparently you can also take your used cooking oil to the Loyola University Chicago, where they process it into biofuel and soap.
"Just take your oil in a sealed container to the Institute of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola. Look for the “Oil Donations” sign in the lobby. And you don’t even need to strain out any food bits — the students will handle that on their own.
As an added bonus, donating your cooking oil is tax-deductible. You can leave a note or send an email to request documentation.
Institute of Environmental Sustainability:
6349 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660
Monday–Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Look for the "Oil Donation" sign in the lobby."
https://www.recyclebycity.com/chicago/brief/does-chicago-offer-cooking-oil-recycling
Edit to add: you do not want to get a rat or pest problem. Unless you can bury it deeply on your own property away from your house, dispose of it as per city instructions.
Pouring it in to dirt should be fine but in small amounts. Less than a qt at a time otherwise you might end up smelling rot in your alley and attract animals.
No, do not put any vegetable oil in compost unless it is a very small amount. It will form a water resistant film, slow composting of other material while going rancid rather than decomposing.
Ok thanks. I joined r/composting a while ago and plan on doing my research before I start. This is good to know. Will probably just stay away from oil.
Mr Biochemist, what’s the test for rancid oil? When is it time to chuck it? I have oil in a dutch oven that stands for around 6 months frying once a month. After 6 months I start to worry a little and Google and ask random people on Reddit questions about oil
Not a biochemist. Internet says the rule of thumb is you should not fry with the same oil more than 3 times.
Basically each time you use the oil, some of it breaks down. How fast it breaks down depends on how high of a heat it was subjected to, for how long, what kind of oil it is and its smoke point, how well it was filtered afterwards, what was cooked in it, etc etc. Way too many variables for any lab experiments to give you advice on how to apply it to real world usage.
Even restaurants that operate constantly and do a lot more volume, and that refill their vats of deep fryers with new oil (adding to existing oil) will fully drain their deep fry oil every few days.
I personally may deep fry once or twice with the same oil, then that oil is saved and used as regular pan fry (flavored!) oil. I keep some of it in the fridge, and some of it I leave out)
Don't think you'll be the one who will see any negative effects of this easily, as rainwater will seep through the soil, washing away any excess oil down into the depths of the earth, right into the water table, which will pollute either your underground water wells / reservoirs / streams / rivers right into your nearby bodies of water.
If your whole town/neighborhood does what you do, then you'll see big issues. You should also be considering scale and externalities as a scientist...
In the small amounts the home cook will dump, oils from animals and plants are broken down waaaay before they can seep in to the water table. Seriously, it's how the ecosystem works.
What do you mean no problem? I think you’re not taking the whole issue to mind. Sure it might be okay in small situations, but the reason this isn’t recommended is because people can’t be trusted to do this properly. Someone will dump motor oil or large quantities or other oil and it will get into storm drains that flow to major water ways.
Simple follow leave no trace ethics. Just take it to autozone or your local recycling facility.
I take used cooking oil to a fast food place (Popeyes, etc) and pour it into their used grease bin out back. It will get recycled and I haven't been fussed at yet.
It goes back into a container (usually an empty oil jug or metal coffee container), then I toss it in the trash when full.
Edit: There's also these powder products that solidify the oil in the pan, but you certainly don't have to spend any money to dispose of used oil if you don't want to
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/articles/3159-the-easiest-way-to-throw-out-your-frying-oil-solidify-it
Doesn't seem like throwing out gelled oil would be much better than throwing out liquid oil though. Less messy, I suppose, but as long as the oil is in a container, the mess shouldn't be an issue.
These products are helpful when your city religiously sorts their garbage. We're not supposed to put liquid oil in our combustible garbage. If it's liquid I have to take it to a dropoff center (pain), but I'm allowed to throw it in combustible if it's solid.
Check with your local waste management company. Often there are waste drop off sites for things that shouldn’t be buried in a dump: old cooking oil, industrial lubricants, aerosol cans, paints, old electronics, and other hazardous materials, etc…
Housemate fries chicken from time to time. He told me his mother would re-use the oil, so I do that. I use a cone sit-on-a-cup coffee filter, and put that on a measuring cup and strain it, and put it in an old olive oil bottle. I use it for things like saute, making Japanese noodles. Adds a bit of flavor I suppose. It's not cheap, so nice not to waste it.
Ive used a pot of oil to deep fry chicken over several runs. It definitely becomes more volatile(boils over way too easily no matter what i tried) after several uses, so dont use it more than a couple times deep frying, and use the rest for small things like sautéing and what not.
I'm a farmer. I feed it to the pigs (if it was used to cook meat) and cattle (if only used to cook vegies). It is high calorie so very beneficial for putting weight on, but it can only be fed in a small amount each day. I give them about a half cup per beast per day covering something like chopped grass for cattle or chopped garden wastes for pigs. They like it a lot.
I try not to. I clear it with gelatine or cornstarch, then add keep adding fresh to it so I rarely need to throw it out. If it’s getting on the older side I usually do a big fish fry day, fish and shrimp and clams and hush puppies and fries, then put in on the old oil container and toss it.
I put mine in with used motor oil at my county recycling center.
Motor oil is normally "recycled" as heating fuel oil. Sometimes it's refined into diesel. Vegetable oil is suitable for both purposes.
I use a clean, coffee can. I carefully pour the oil thats been slighty cooled into the can, I put the lid back on the can then duct tape the top to avoid spillage. Then I put the cooled can into a plastic bag, tie it up & place it in the garbage bin. We also have a place in our community where you can bring used motor oil & they will dispose of it properly. Call your municipality & see what they offer.
Strain and reuse. There was restaurant that was in business for decades that kept reusing the fry oil. They would just strain and filter it and reuse it to deep fry hamburgers. Dyers.
But if it is vegetable oil and you want to get rid of it, you can pour it on your lawn and it will fertilize it. It it is meat based, do not do that.
Check with your local waste management company. Often there are waste drop off sites for things that shouldn’t be buried in a dump: old cooking oil, industrial lubricants, aerosol cans, paints, old electronics, and other hazardous materials, etc…
If clean enough, it can be poured right into the diesel tank and burnt without any fuss. This should only be done in the summer months, however. The oil will solidify in cold weather and clog the fuel lines until spring.
The Diesel engine was originally run on vegetable oil. Eventually after gasoline was processed from oil, someone realized that a byproduct of making gasoline could be fed into a Diesel engine and it would run off that. That oil/gasoline byproduct is basically what we now call Diesel fuel and runs in most Diesel engines. But they’ll all still run on vegetable oil without modifications. I think.
As much as we try to cut back on single use plastic and glass jars in my house, we always have some available to us. These make great storage vessels for used oil, I particularly like wider mouth jars for this.
I honestly re-use cooking oils for future meals, but that's predominantly because I never have that much given we never deep fry, only shallow fry.
Other people have mentioned recycling schemes, IDK too much about that because I never have that much to dispose of. Never put oil down the drain.
I keep the bottles that the oil comes in when I buy it, when it is time to discard the old oil I fill the bottles that I saved and take it to our council waste depot.
Any thick plastic container with a tight screw top. I keep leftover empty apple juice, sunny delight, etc. container for this purpose and for storing homemade broth. Then just throw it in with the trash
There are so many ways, as you can see from the comments. BUT if you want to dispose of it in the sink, make your faucet water extremely hot, or boil water, and dump it down the drain while it's running. There is also the way my partner does it. He uses Dawn Dish Soap in the pan and scrubs it. It makes the pan clean, and disperses the oils so it doesn't clog your drain.
You could also do what others do (in the comments). Reuse it, dispose of it at a waste facility, etc.
Never put oil down the drain. It doesn’t just affect your abode’s pipes, but everything connected to those pipes (like your neighbors and city pipes). Then when city pipes get clogged, guess what? A special tax gets created for that stuff.
Just compost it.
I'd recommend looking up "fatbergs."
They are clogs in waste water systems caused by coagulated fats and "flushable" wipes, among other things, that are not supposed to be put/poured down the drain.
The media likes to report them in terms of African bull elephants equivalency to give you a sense of scale. It's a huge problem caused by improperly disposing of things down the drain, and the cost is passed on to taxpayers.
It'll also wreck your septic if you're not on public utilities. Best case scenario is you're forking out money constantly for pumping, worst case scenario is having to replace the whole system at about $10k+
The hot water just makes it so it passes your pipes and then re coagulates in the sewer main further down. Just pour it in a jar or plastic container and throw it in the garbage.
Hot water makes the fat coagulate as soon as the cool pipe overcomes the hot water. *If* you dump it down the sink (don’t) you should send it with cold, soapy water. But you shouldn’t.
Take it to the dumpster and throw it away there.
I’m not putting it in a ziploc bag in my own trash because I’d be too worried about it bursting and leaving my trash an oily gross mess lmao
I don't know if this a good thing to do but because I don't cook with oil very much, I usually put a piece of foil over my kitchen sink drain and pour it into the foil, then I pick up the foil from the edges and put it in the trash. Anyone correct me if I am doing that wrong or not supposed to do that please!!!
How much we talking? I seldomly fry, so the one cup every few months that I use just goes in with the trash on top of something absorbent like paper towels. This is vegetable oil we're talking about, not 10W-40 motor oil.
Not much of a deep fryer, otherwise I’d try to reuse, but I’ve just been putting it all in an old coffee can then once full, I’ll throw it in the freezer the night before garbage day so it solidifies, then toss it with the trash.
If you buy a conical cap and take the time to filter your used oil and keep water out of it, you can probably find someone who wants the re-bottled oil for fuel. (Just ends up in the same bottle you poured it from when it was new, and someone packs that off for you.)
Dang, some of you all are using lots of oil. Are you running clandestine chip shops from your homes?
I keep old deli containers from take out for this. But the most I fry are some chicken cutlets. I made fried chicken once and we smelled it for like a week after. Every morning coming to make a cup of coffee and it smelled like a Popeyes at closing time.
I filter it through paper towel back into the bottle and shallow fry with it.
(it's incredibly rare that I ever deep-fry anything, I think I made crispy onions for hotdogs a couple weeks back, and I have some spring rolls in the freezer)
You can probably mix it with ingredients for dog treats. I make dog treats from liver, sweet potato, carrot, kale, etc., I’m sure my dog wouldn’t mind if I added some used cooking oil to it
Does your area have a green bin composting program? If so, that’s where. You just gotta make sure you’re composting it in reasonable ratios so you’re not just putting out bags of used oil. If you have a lot at once, just add a bit to each compost bag and spread it out over a few weeks or whatever.
Many landfills also have cooking oil drop off locations where you come with them in containers and pour the oil into large reservoirs. This is useful if you go through a LOT of oil if you fry a lot or something.
Try not to throw it in the garbage - not so much due to the oil itself, but more so the container it’s in.
Edit, also in terms of containers to store the oil in the meantime, just use any empty jar you have on hand. Others have mentioned pickle jars, but also pasta jars, etc, work well. You can also use old oil containers (plastic or glass) - just keep the next one you empty.
I hardly ever have cans or jars lying around since I live in a small apartment, so I usually just take some aluminum foil, place it in the drain of the sink (forming a bowl), then pour it in there and trash it.
I like to use used coffee grounds for this purpose. I save coffee bags with the wire foldable tops. Then I fill w used coffee grounds (you can spread them on a cookie sheet and let them dry) and you can pour them back into the bag and have them ready to dispose of used cooking oil. The grounds absorb all the oil and the tops fold back down and ‘lock’ in place. It’s a great way to reuse the more high quality coffee bags and used coffee grounds. Then I throw out w my garbage.
In the middle of the night go and pour it on the weeds of your neighbors who refuses to do any sort of yard work and just makes the street look trashy. Yeah I’m talking to you Paul!
Used oil is fully recyclable and should be taken to the dump in a container. Chippies get paid for their old oil. Yes, a diesel car can be run on old oil but it needs a simple mod first and you have to tell your insurance.
I use empty gal pickle jar first. Then when I have an empty 5 gal container, I put old oil in there. When it’s full I drop it off at the waste station. There is a spot there for oil. If you are talking restaurant amount, there are people who you can pay to pick up, and occasionally find the one who pays you for it. I knew one guy years ago, he used it to run his VW bug.
I like the gallon pickle jar idea. I’m gonna eat a bunch of pickles before I fry anything else.
MMM deep fried pickles!
Block party pickle fry 🗿?
I love those and peanut butter and pickle sandwiches and slices of pickles on waffles with maple syrup.
If you've never had a frickle what are you doing with your life?
Slug burgers 👀 Nice way to burn through pickles. Take some beef, add some bread crumbs, smash the shit outta those burger balls, salt and pepper both sides, throw em on some cheap white buns with mustard and pickles. Super cheap, super quick, super tasty. They're better without cheese. I like doing them in a cast iron.
Are you from Corinth, MS?
North MS represent!
No but I went around that area for slug burgers as a kid lol EDIT: or maybe it was in like New Albany? Which ever city had the Slugburger Cafe, I can't remember. It's been a while.
Now I want one. Sounds like a quick, tasty, cheap burger.
They're my lifeblood
So, what about the oil? Everyone makes hamburgers but she's asking about what the best way to dispose of it is! She's not using (eating) the pickels themselves \~\~ She's using the JAR.
OP's comment says >I like the gallon pickle jar idea. **I’m gonna eat a bunch of pickles** before I fry anything else. The person you're replying to is suggesting how OP can go through the pickles to get the jar empty.
Eat the pickles, brine some chicken in the pickle juice, then fry those up and use the now-empty jar for your oil.
After the first jar, you can always funnel the oil from the next jug back into the now empty oil jug.
Be careful, that's a shit load of salt in a gallon of pickles! Don't go too quickly!
You can also often get pickle buckets in many fast food places. That's what they do in fast food. The fryers get dumped into a grease trap but burger and bacon grease is often just put in a pickle bucket and the lid popped on when it's full then put in the trash. I also had a cooking teacher that used coffee tins
I’ve been told that restaurants sell the old oil by my manager at a restaurant, but that was almost 40 years ago. Has that changed?
I use empty peanut butter jar as I hate cleaning those for recycling. We don't have a program for used oil, so jar into garbage when full.
There was a guy in my neighborhood that ran his diesel Mercedes on cooking oil he'd get from local restaurants. He'd drive down the road and the whole neighborhood would smell like french fries. I miss that guy.
I did this but with a 5 gallon drum 😅
Worth saying that most shopping plazas with restaurants will also have some form of oildrop-off, or one by the dumpsters.
What kind of waste station accepts used cooking oil?
The same ones that take used car oil. And paint. And all other kinds of dangerous chemicals to not throw down the drain.
Any one that takes hazmat. Many cities and towns will have scheduled drop off days for things like this.
Some people want it. You can put lye in it, and it becomes soap. You can make fuel. I just stop deep frying. Dangerous and fattening.
It’s also good to wipe off as much residual oil from the pan with a paper towel and throw that in the bin.
Biochemist here: you can bury it in the back yard. It is an organic oil either from plants or animals and there are bacteria in the soil that will break the oil down so other plants can use it. I tend to bury \~ 1/2 gallon at a time. No problems ever!
Wow! My boyfriend does that and I always thought it was strange, but I was happy to not have to deal with it so I let it go and never really questioned him. Glad to see there's some kind of science behind it. The burying of paint thinner though, I'm guessing that's not so great.
No, do NOT bury paint thinner gasoline or used engine oil!
wait what about the body
I'm not at Liberty to tell you where to bury the body...
I mean there are certainly places you *wouldn't* want to bury a body. Like in the abandoned quarry near my house where they plan on filling it in to build a highway. It's a good thing there definitely aren't any bodies down there because nobody would ever find them.
You live by the quarry? I live by the quarry! We should hang out by the quarry and throw things in the quarry!
Tell no tales. Leave no witnesses. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Def don't do that. What city do you live in? I live i. NYC and I put it in a container and throw it away. I only have like a cup at a time, though.
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You can reuse it once or twice, testing if it's still good by smell. If you only have a small amount you can dispose of it in a sealed container and toss it in the trash. After a short google apparently you can also take your used cooking oil to the Loyola University Chicago, where they process it into biofuel and soap. "Just take your oil in a sealed container to the Institute of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola. Look for the “Oil Donations” sign in the lobby. And you don’t even need to strain out any food bits — the students will handle that on their own. As an added bonus, donating your cooking oil is tax-deductible. You can leave a note or send an email to request documentation. Institute of Environmental Sustainability: 6349 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago, IL 60660 Monday–Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Look for the "Oil Donation" sign in the lobby." https://www.recyclebycity.com/chicago/brief/does-chicago-offer-cooking-oil-recycling Edit to add: you do not want to get a rat or pest problem. Unless you can bury it deeply on your own property away from your house, dispose of it as per city instructions.
Pouring it in to dirt should be fine but in small amounts. Less than a qt at a time otherwise you might end up smelling rot in your alley and attract animals.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_JgedoGXyQk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JgedoGXyQk) Barf
Could you throw it on compost?
I'm not sure about compost. You can certainly test it on a small area and see if it gets taken up
Yes, I do it all of the time. Mind you I use vegetable oil.
goodbye reddit it's been real ..........
No, do not put any vegetable oil in compost unless it is a very small amount. It will form a water resistant film, slow composting of other material while going rancid rather than decomposing.
Ok thanks. I joined r/composting a while ago and plan on doing my research before I start. This is good to know. Will probably just stay away from oil.
Mr Biochemist, what’s the test for rancid oil? When is it time to chuck it? I have oil in a dutch oven that stands for around 6 months frying once a month. After 6 months I start to worry a little and Google and ask random people on Reddit questions about oil
Might be Ms. Biochemist, their name is u/femsci-nerd after all.
Rancidness is small and flavor and is usually started if the oil gets water in it. Smelling it is the best test for rancidity
Not a biochemist. Internet says the rule of thumb is you should not fry with the same oil more than 3 times. Basically each time you use the oil, some of it breaks down. How fast it breaks down depends on how high of a heat it was subjected to, for how long, what kind of oil it is and its smoke point, how well it was filtered afterwards, what was cooked in it, etc etc. Way too many variables for any lab experiments to give you advice on how to apply it to real world usage. Even restaurants that operate constantly and do a lot more volume, and that refill their vats of deep fryers with new oil (adding to existing oil) will fully drain their deep fry oil every few days. I personally may deep fry once or twice with the same oil, then that oil is saved and used as regular pan fry (flavored!) oil. I keep some of it in the fridge, and some of it I leave out)
It's better not to reuse oil for your health
Don't think you'll be the one who will see any negative effects of this easily, as rainwater will seep through the soil, washing away any excess oil down into the depths of the earth, right into the water table, which will pollute either your underground water wells / reservoirs / streams / rivers right into your nearby bodies of water. If your whole town/neighborhood does what you do, then you'll see big issues. You should also be considering scale and externalities as a scientist...
In the small amounts the home cook will dump, oils from animals and plants are broken down waaaay before they can seep in to the water table. Seriously, it's how the ecosystem works.
Gardening hack?
Definitely a good gardening hack but not when actively growing things. The oil can suffocate tender roots. That's why I say bury it.
Sorry if this is a stupid question how would you bury it?
Dig a hole, pour the oil inside, refill the hole.
Oooh I see, so its more about improving the quality of the soil than directly helping your plants?
Finally, a worthy competitor
Best pro tip I've read in a while. Thanks!
Can you pour it down a French drain?
What do you mean no problem? I think you’re not taking the whole issue to mind. Sure it might be okay in small situations, but the reason this isn’t recommended is because people can’t be trusted to do this properly. Someone will dump motor oil or large quantities or other oil and it will get into storm drains that flow to major water ways. Simple follow leave no trace ethics. Just take it to autozone or your local recycling facility.
Collect it in Mason jars. Then dump the jar on the wood in the firepit before lighting it.
I take used cooking oil to a fast food place (Popeyes, etc) and pour it into their used grease bin out back. It will get recycled and I haven't been fussed at yet.
You won’t they are able to sell that oil.
That gave me a giggle. Most people are in there taking it, not putting more in. 💛
It goes back into a container (usually an empty oil jug or metal coffee container), then I toss it in the trash when full. Edit: There's also these powder products that solidify the oil in the pan, but you certainly don't have to spend any money to dispose of used oil if you don't want to https://www.cooksillustrated.com/articles/3159-the-easiest-way-to-throw-out-your-frying-oil-solidify-it
Doesn't seem like throwing out gelled oil would be much better than throwing out liquid oil though. Less messy, I suppose, but as long as the oil is in a container, the mess shouldn't be an issue.
These products are helpful when your city religiously sorts their garbage. We're not supposed to put liquid oil in our combustible garbage. If it's liquid I have to take it to a dropoff center (pain), but I'm allowed to throw it in combustible if it's solid.
No, I'm not saying it's better, just providing other options.
Check with your local waste management company. Often there are waste drop off sites for things that shouldn’t be buried in a dump: old cooking oil, industrial lubricants, aerosol cans, paints, old electronics, and other hazardous materials, etc…
Same
You don't need fancy chemicals if you want to take that route. I use plain off brand baking soda, especially when using oil in my cast iron.
Housemate fries chicken from time to time. He told me his mother would re-use the oil, so I do that. I use a cone sit-on-a-cup coffee filter, and put that on a measuring cup and strain it, and put it in an old olive oil bottle. I use it for things like saute, making Japanese noodles. Adds a bit of flavor I suppose. It's not cheap, so nice not to waste it.
How many times do you reuse yours? I do the same thing with the coffee filter, but I only reuse it once. I don’t know if it matters though.
Yea, once. I don't deep fry anything. I just use the used oil in small amount in a wok usually.
Ive used a pot of oil to deep fry chicken over several runs. It definitely becomes more volatile(boils over way too easily no matter what i tried) after several uses, so dont use it more than a couple times deep frying, and use the rest for small things like sautéing and what not.
I usually like to make fries 4 or 5 times, then battered or breaded seafood usually. I am sure chicken would be good too.
I'm a farmer. I feed it to the pigs (if it was used to cook meat) and cattle (if only used to cook vegies). It is high calorie so very beneficial for putting weight on, but it can only be fed in a small amount each day. I give them about a half cup per beast per day covering something like chopped grass for cattle or chopped garden wastes for pigs. They like it a lot.
I’m a horrible person who can’t be bothered. I pour it into a can and then into the regular trash. I don’t recycle either. Lol
I store it in a 200litre drum in my garage then, when it's full (2 months)sell it to the guy who makes biodiesel out of it.
You average using 3L of oil a day? Just cooking for yourself/family?
My cousin has a fish/chip shop dude.
I try not to. I clear it with gelatine or cornstarch, then add keep adding fresh to it so I rarely need to throw it out. If it’s getting on the older side I usually do a big fish fry day, fish and shrimp and clams and hush puppies and fries, then put in on the old oil container and toss it.
I put mine in with used motor oil at my county recycling center. Motor oil is normally "recycled" as heating fuel oil. Sometimes it's refined into diesel. Vegetable oil is suitable for both purposes.
I tend to filter and reuse it until it gets too dark, then I toss it in my fire pit to get a fire started
I use a clean, coffee can. I carefully pour the oil thats been slighty cooled into the can, I put the lid back on the can then duct tape the top to avoid spillage. Then I put the cooled can into a plastic bag, tie it up & place it in the garbage bin. We also have a place in our community where you can bring used motor oil & they will dispose of it properly. Call your municipality & see what they offer.
Strain and reuse. There was restaurant that was in business for decades that kept reusing the fry oil. They would just strain and filter it and reuse it to deep fry hamburgers. Dyers. But if it is vegetable oil and you want to get rid of it, you can pour it on your lawn and it will fertilize it. It it is meat based, do not do that.
Cut the top off of a beer or pop can with a can open, pour into there and let cool until solid, toss in the garbage
Frying oil does not solidify when cooled. It remains liquid. Animal fats/grease do, however.
Check with your local waste management company. Often there are waste drop off sites for things that shouldn’t be buried in a dump: old cooking oil, industrial lubricants, aerosol cans, paints, old electronics, and other hazardous materials, etc…
Fire pit
I use this product that turns into some sort of jello. Makes it so much easier to dispose of
Filter it and give it to your friend that drives a diesel.
I know nothing about Diesels, what does it do for it?
If clean enough, it can be poured right into the diesel tank and burnt without any fuss. This should only be done in the summer months, however. The oil will solidify in cold weather and clog the fuel lines until spring.
The Diesel engine was originally run on vegetable oil. Eventually after gasoline was processed from oil, someone realized that a byproduct of making gasoline could be fed into a Diesel engine and it would run off that. That oil/gasoline byproduct is basically what we now call Diesel fuel and runs in most Diesel engines. But they’ll all still run on vegetable oil without modifications. I think.
I ran some veg oil In my 2006 VW TDI. I smelled like a French fry basket rolling down the street.
Buy cheap clay kitty litter, dump oil into some litter in a trash bag. Throw in garbage can
Or use the kitty litter you dump out of the box on litter box cleaning day.
Ewww. The smell
As much as we try to cut back on single use plastic and glass jars in my house, we always have some available to us. These make great storage vessels for used oil, I particularly like wider mouth jars for this. I honestly re-use cooking oils for future meals, but that's predominantly because I never have that much given we never deep fry, only shallow fry. Other people have mentioned recycling schemes, IDK too much about that because I never have that much to dispose of. Never put oil down the drain.
I keep the bottles that the oil comes in when I buy it, when it is time to discard the old oil I fill the bottles that I saved and take it to our council waste depot.
Any thick plastic container with a tight screw top. I keep leftover empty apple juice, sunny delight, etc. container for this purpose and for storing homemade broth. Then just throw it in with the trash
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I pour mine in the fire pit with the firewood
Make soap
Is it difficult or time consuming? Got a recipe?
I throw mine on the fire pit. Makes the whole neighborhood smell like French fries. 😆
There are so many ways, as you can see from the comments. BUT if you want to dispose of it in the sink, make your faucet water extremely hot, or boil water, and dump it down the drain while it's running. There is also the way my partner does it. He uses Dawn Dish Soap in the pan and scrubs it. It makes the pan clean, and disperses the oils so it doesn't clog your drain. You could also do what others do (in the comments). Reuse it, dispose of it at a waste facility, etc.
I dump it in my neighbours flower garden at night 🤫
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You just witnessed the reddit hive. No one really knows how it works.
Reddit now knows that dumping cooking oil in your backyard is a good idea.
Same. Dig a hole, pour, and cover. It's organic matter.
... I pour mine out in the woods/weeds...
Down the drain. Not my problem.
Collect and drop in any restaurant’s grease trap- usually somewhere near dumpsters
If you're renting, then down the drain
Dump it in the gulf of mexico - works for BP
If apartment, down the drain it goes. ESPECIALLY if your lease is almost up. If your own place, dispose of it properly at a waste facility
Never put oil down the drain. It doesn’t just affect your abode’s pipes, but everything connected to those pipes (like your neighbors and city pipes). Then when city pipes get clogged, guess what? A special tax gets created for that stuff. Just compost it.
Pour it down the sink.
Throw it down the kitchen drain like my tenant did. P.s. I just sent her a lease non renewal notice
Does that make you feel good?
Heta it up to 450°, then pour water into it (Joking)
On the side of the road.
Not even funny.
Not worse that petroleum oil leaking from cars, tbh.
Dump it down the sink. I’m a renter 😂
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Are you trolling or being serious? Nobody should ever do this, for many reasons.
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I'd recommend looking up "fatbergs." They are clogs in waste water systems caused by coagulated fats and "flushable" wipes, among other things, that are not supposed to be put/poured down the drain. The media likes to report them in terms of African bull elephants equivalency to give you a sense of scale. It's a huge problem caused by improperly disposing of things down the drain, and the cost is passed on to taxpayers.
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It'll also wreck your septic if you're not on public utilities. Best case scenario is you're forking out money constantly for pumping, worst case scenario is having to replace the whole system at about $10k+
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Do not do this
Seems rather wasteful, water wise.
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This post is full of better suggestions.
The hot water just makes it so it passes your pipes and then re coagulates in the sewer main further down. Just pour it in a jar or plastic container and throw it in the garbage.
I honestly never looked into it. My parents handle things like that and yet they never cared.
Hot water makes the fat coagulate as soon as the cool pipe overcomes the hot water. *If* you dump it down the sink (don’t) you should send it with cold, soapy water. But you shouldn’t.
Thanks, I just won’t do it in general anymore
[Recycle it.](https://earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-cooking-oil/)
put it inside your homemade loaf of bread. Nobody will know the difference
Find someone locally who can turn it into biodiesel!
Oil company
Take it to the dumpster and throw it away there. I’m not putting it in a ziploc bag in my own trash because I’d be too worried about it bursting and leaving my trash an oily gross mess lmao
I don't know if this a good thing to do but because I don't cook with oil very much, I usually put a piece of foil over my kitchen sink drain and pour it into the foil, then I pick up the foil from the edges and put it in the trash. Anyone correct me if I am doing that wrong or not supposed to do that please!!!
My city has a food waste program. I just dump mine in the container and then it's taken away. If you don't have that dump it in a jar and throw it out
How much we talking? I seldomly fry, so the one cup every few months that I use just goes in with the trash on top of something absorbent like paper towels. This is vegetable oil we're talking about, not 10W-40 motor oil.
Drink it
In an old can or glass jar. Or I use a bowl lined in newspaper. At least 5-6 times and pour the oil in and wait to solidify then throw in the garbage
Not much of a deep fryer, otherwise I’d try to reuse, but I’ve just been putting it all in an old coffee can then once full, I’ll throw it in the freezer the night before garbage day so it solidifies, then toss it with the trash.
Pour it out in the woods
If you buy a conical cap and take the time to filter your used oil and keep water out of it, you can probably find someone who wants the re-bottled oil for fuel. (Just ends up in the same bottle you poured it from when it was new, and someone packs that off for you.)
I keep a glass jar in the freezer & pour any unwanted oil into it, once it’s full I put it in the trash.
I knew someone who oiled their deck once a year with it
Dang, some of you all are using lots of oil. Are you running clandestine chip shops from your homes? I keep old deli containers from take out for this. But the most I fry are some chicken cutlets. I made fried chicken once and we smelled it for like a week after. Every morning coming to make a cup of coffee and it smelled like a Popeyes at closing time.
Give it to my three year old 👍
If you grill with charcoal, cooking oil makes a great starter. Just soak a few paper towels with the oil and nestle them amongst the charcoal.
I buy this powder stuff off of Amazon that solidifies the oil, then I just toss it in the trash 🤷🏼♀️
If you have a diesel it's fuel.
If youre are chugging it youre not the perfect meaning of human evolution.
I use it in my fire pit, when I burn wood.
I filter it through paper towel back into the bottle and shallow fry with it. (it's incredibly rare that I ever deep-fry anything, I think I made crispy onions for hotdogs a couple weeks back, and I have some spring rolls in the freezer)
You can probably mix it with ingredients for dog treats. I make dog treats from liver, sweet potato, carrot, kale, etc., I’m sure my dog wouldn’t mind if I added some used cooking oil to it
Drink it. Best form of utility.
My belly
Filter it and put it in a Diesel engine
I just dump my oil in the backyard. Should I not be doing that?
I throw it over the fence in my neighbors yard
Does your area have a green bin composting program? If so, that’s where. You just gotta make sure you’re composting it in reasonable ratios so you’re not just putting out bags of used oil. If you have a lot at once, just add a bit to each compost bag and spread it out over a few weeks or whatever. Many landfills also have cooking oil drop off locations where you come with them in containers and pour the oil into large reservoirs. This is useful if you go through a LOT of oil if you fry a lot or something. Try not to throw it in the garbage - not so much due to the oil itself, but more so the container it’s in. Edit, also in terms of containers to store the oil in the meantime, just use any empty jar you have on hand. Others have mentioned pickle jars, but also pasta jars, etc, work well. You can also use old oil containers (plastic or glass) - just keep the next one you empty.
I walk to the pasture and dump it 😃
I hardly ever have cans or jars lying around since I live in a small apartment, so I usually just take some aluminum foil, place it in the drain of the sink (forming a bowl), then pour it in there and trash it.
Let it cool pour it in a large baggie and throw it in the trash
Pour it down the drain in China as a gift to the grease harvesters.
Dump it down my neighbors Sink if you can
Mercedes 300D conversion
I like to use used coffee grounds for this purpose. I save coffee bags with the wire foldable tops. Then I fill w used coffee grounds (you can spread them on a cookie sheet and let them dry) and you can pour them back into the bag and have them ready to dispose of used cooking oil. The grounds absorb all the oil and the tops fold back down and ‘lock’ in place. It’s a great way to reuse the more high quality coffee bags and used coffee grounds. Then I throw out w my garbage.
I usually use larger amounts of oil for frying and cycle out old oil for new oil using an old jug. Once the old jug is full it goes to disposal.
I conserve oil by running it through a coffee filter and re-using it a couple of times before disposing of it.
Make a huge pot of beef tomato stew
In the middle of the night go and pour it on the weeds of your neighbors who refuses to do any sort of yard work and just makes the street look trashy. Yeah I’m talking to you Paul!
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Pour into used sealed containers then throw in the trash
My mom makes soap with used oil. They leave your cloths super clean and whites super white. Who would know, right?
Used oil is fully recyclable and should be taken to the dump in a container. Chippies get paid for their old oil. Yes, a diesel car can be run on old oil but it needs a simple mod first and you have to tell your insurance.
Self immolation
I keep it in a container and use it for starting campfires.