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If you have enough freezer room, you can do like I do. I pour all my old grease, from bacon, hambuger, deep frying into large tins (I use large juice cans) and freeze it. Then, late in the fall, I put several inches of water in the bottom of a large stock pot and melt down the fat. Stir it very gently and keep the flame down on the stove- you don't need a rolling boil to do this. Because the fat floats on the top, the salt and sediment fall into the water, leaving you with a reasonably clean product.
Let the whole mixture cool and then chill it so the fat hardens. It can be lifted off the water and the water discarded. Then I re-melt the fat and mix it with birdseed, chopped suet, and such and make my own suet cakes for the birds. If you pour it into sheet cake pans and let it harden, you can cut it to the deminsions for commercial suet cake holders. My kids used to love to do this, with adult supervision, of course, and make Christmas gifts for their teachers and grandparents.
TexasHorseLady
DON'T do that with a septic system! (You're inviting much worse problems than merely attracting animals.)
OK....here is a question I have.
We are (for the first time EVER) living in a house with a Septic System.
I HAD been flushing some of the grease (diluted with dish soap) down the drain.....and now find out, NOT to do it......OOOOPPPPPSSSS.........
What can happen, and why shouldn't grease/ fat be "flushed" down the tubes???
I apologize....but have to admit, I am so new to this septic thing......
Pretty much for the same reason you shouldn't flush it down a kitchen sink when you're on city septic, because it will eventually gunk up the works. But gunking up the works in the country with a septic system can involve lots of digging and other mean, nasty, expensive stuff. Not too bad if you do it occasionally (not pouring an entire pan of grease, dish determent or no dish detergent, down there, but cleaning out the pan with detergent and a little goes down), but not a good regular practice.
OK....here is a question I have.
We are (for the first time EVER) living in a house with a Septic System.
I HAD been flushing some of the grease (diluted with dish soap) down the drain.....and now find out, NOT to do it......OOOOPPPPPSSSS.........
What can happen, and why shouldn't grease/ fat be "flushed" down the tubes???
I apologize....but have to admit, I am so new to this septic thing......
Out in your yard you will have a drain field, if you'll notice during dry spells the grass will grow better in that area because of the extra moisture. Basically when you flush the toilet or pour something down the sink it goes into the septic tank, the solid waste falls to the bottom and the extra water flows out through the field lines into the yard. If you were to take hot grease and pour it into a bucket of cold water you will see that it turns solid and floats on top. Well, it does the same thing in your septic tank and sometimes tries to flow out of the field lines. The cold solid fat clogs the lines.
I am a retired senior who has to cook for himself. After frying meat or whatever, I generally pour the old grease into an empty jar saved from something like applesauce or pickle jar when emptied, never down the drain. Have a habit of saving BACON grease to fry my meats. I pour the bacon grease thru a small strainer and here again a clean reusable jar and keep in the fridge. Just today bought a kilo of nice bacon that I will fry up and save on a plate in the freezer. Take out a couple of slices and micro for 20-30 sec on a paper towel to add to my eggs in the morning. Steve
If you have enough freezer room, you can do like I do. I pour all my old grease, from bacon, hambuger, deep frying into large tins (I use large juice cans) and freeze it. Then, late in the fall, I put several inches of water in the bottom of a large stock pot and melt down the fat. Stir it very gently and keep the flame down on the stove- you don't need a rolling boil to do this. Because the fat floats on the top, the salt and sediment fall into the water, leaving you with a reasonably clean product.
Let the whole mixture cool and then chill it so the fat hardens. It can be lifted off the water and the water discarded. Then I re-melt the fat and mix it with birdseed, chopped suet, and such and make my own suet cakes for the birds. If you pour it into sheet cake pans and let it harden, you can cut it to the deminsions for commercial suet cake holders. My kids used to love to do this, with adult supervision, of course, and make Christmas gifts for their teachers and grandparents.
Ok so I'm going to attempt to make fried chicken steak and it calls for frying in a cup of veg oil. What do I do with the oil after I'm done with it? What's the best way to dispose of it properly?? Can it be reused?? I'll probably burn my apt down, lol.
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Fying and left over oil
