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I know not to pour it down the drain. What do I do with it after using it? I'm not a huge fryer so keeping it for another time won't make sense because it may be a while. Where can I safely get rid of it?? Thanks!
I live in the sticks, I dump it in the woods.........you could dig a hole in your backyard and pour it in. Or pour it, when cooled, into an empty soup can(or several) or something else like that and throw it away
I don't fry much but I do like bacon once in awhile. I use an empty coffee can for excess oil or grease from cooking. When it's about 3/4 full, I put it in the trash and get out a new can.
I do have empty soup cans for frying bacon, etc but I mean if I was going to fry chicken or something with a large amount of oil. I can't dump in my backyard as I really don't have too much of one
You can store used vegetable oil for quite awhile, but old animal fat will smell like something dead. I just pour mine on the ground and it doesn't do any harm.
after the oil is cool, they flush the toilet and as the water is running pour it down...
DON'T do that with a septic system! (You're inviting much worse problems than merely attracting animals.)
My mother saved her oil from frying chicken. I swear the oil she used to make her truly outstanding and nonreplicable fried chicken was 30 years old. Not refirgerated, either - just put in the can labeled "Grease".
Around here, if you're doing something like frying a turkey and let it be known, the biodiesel guys will come calling and collect it from you. I know of some that advertise on freecycle and such every holiday that they'll come take your used cooking oil off your hands. Maybe there would be someone like that around?
If you're talking just a cast iron skillet's worth, I use an empty can stuffed with paper towels or crumpled up newspaper and pour the oil in there and put it in the trash.
after the oil is cool, they flush the toilet and as the water is running pour it down...
DON'T do that with a septic system! (You're inviting much worse problems than merely attracting animals.)
My mother saved her oil from frying chicken. I swear the oil she used to make her truly outstanding and nonreplicable fried chicken was 30 years old. Not refirgerated, either - just put in the can labeled "Grease".
Around here, if you're doing something like frying a turkey and let it be known, the biodiesel guys will come calling and collect it from you. I know of some that advertise on freecycle and such every holiday that they'll come take your used cooking oil off your hands. Maybe there would be someone like that around?
If you're talking just a cast iron skillet's worth, I use an empty can stuffed with paper towels or crumpled up newspaper and pour the oil in there and put it in the trash.
sorry-never lived in a home with septic--so "dont try this at home"
Liike others I just use an empty can, usually a coffee can and keep it under my sink until it gets somewhat full then toss it with the trash. I rarely use any large amount of oil in cooking so it says there for quite awhile and have never noticed an odor. I have also put it in the yard once cooled but don't want to attract critters so that is rare. I think many of us remember our mothers using the old grease can under the sink since many of them had septic tanks in those day---and I have a septic tank today so that would never be a obtion of disposal.
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