the drain can have little a grease, as a treat

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    Don’t pour hot grease in a glass jar or it’ll shatter and spill hot grease all over your counter and then when you grab a flimsy piece of plastic from the recycling and try to push it on to stop the spill and the plastic collapses and hot grease goes all over your forearm and gives you 2nd degree burns and your floor is covered in broken glass you will regret it.

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      16 days ago

      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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        16 days ago

        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.

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            11 days ago

            I’m pretty sure the risk is lower, but you probably still shouldn’t. I think the problem is that anything fatty/oily can emulsify with other things that get poured down the drain and potentially thicken into a blockage even if they weren’t in that state when you poured them down

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      16 days ago

      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.

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    17 days ago

    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.

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        16 days ago

        What is it with Europeans shitting on Americans on the internet so much lately? If we’re being honest everything that is current day American is either directly or indirectly their fault.

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            16 days ago

            I live in and visited multiple countries in Europe. You’re all just as arrogant. The only exception is eastern Europe but they’re just racist/homophobic

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              16 days ago

              Nah eastern Europeans aren’t like that at all we’re all very friendly, except the poles obviously.

              .

              /s obviously

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                9 days ago

                No offense but I’ve heard and seen the exact opposite. I’ve been told don’t go farther east than Praha if you’re brown. ESPECIALLY small eastern European towns/villages.

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    16 days ago

    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.

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      16 days ago

      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.

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        16 days ago

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

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

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      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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          15 days ago

          That may be true, but if the collective society decided to make housing unaffordable for the younger generation then they’ve decided to live with the inevitable shenanigans.

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            Then break tooth picks off in all the door locks, smash the windows or drill holes in the fuckin roof but causing chaos for your neighborhood is whack

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    16 days ago

    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‽

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      This is my first time hearing of this ngl. Actually I’m not entirely sure what “grease” means, is it what is left from oil and butter after cooking meats? Meat juices? I’ve always poured it down the drain. Never even heard of anyone doing otherwise, least of all putting it in a jar.

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          clean up after the parents

          Huh? I live on my own and cook for myself and have for 10 years. My parents live in a different country and I’ve not even seen or spoke to them in like 6 years so I don’t get what you mean to imply there.

          I just haven’t heard of this phenomenon before. I’ve never had any drainage issues either. Maybe in the shower due to hair, but never in the kitchen. I’ve just literally never heard of this, ever, my parents definitely never did this back in my home country, nor have I ever seen anyone do this in any of the countries I’ve been to or the one I currently live in.

          I’ve lived with roommates, at boarding school, and with a partner, and not once have I seen them not pour grease down the drain either, least of all in a jar.

          Doing some surface level research it seems like primarily an American thing. As long as you’re not pouring litres of pure grease down the drain it should be ok to just wash down what naturally comes off pans etc. as you wash them, especially mixed with washing up liquid. Maybe I’m just not very greasy idk.

          What is “lucky 10g”?

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      17 days ago

      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.