What do you do with drained fat when cooking?

happywife123

Do you store it in a coffee can then dump?

wbl

Yes, I put it in a can and then throw it away in the trash.

 

 

Gracie6414

Depends on what meat it's from, I keep bacon and pork fat for cooking with later. Chicken and beef fat I cool in a tin and chuck it out.

happywife123

I've asked H a million times not to dump it down the drain.  Guess what I just caught him doing??

cerealkillah

depends on how much there is.

if i'm cooking ground beef or pork, i can usually soak it up with some paper towels and throw it straight into the trash.

bacon or anything else that produces lots of grease, i pour into an empty can or a disposable coffee cup. let cool then toss.

cerealkillah

happywife123:

I've asked H a million times not to dump it down the drain.  Guess what I just caught him doing??

oooh. no. not good. 

ask him if he's looking forward to getting all new plumbing.

Stellasmom

I keep old 28oz tomato cans in the freezer. I dump old oil into them until they're full, then I toss them in the trash the next time it needs to go out.

I do keep a little bit of bacon grease in tupperware in the fridge just in case I want it to flavor something.

Sue_sue

Coffee. can then dump

JEHC

Stellasmom:

I keep old 28oz tomato cans in the freezer. I dump old oil into them until they're full, then I toss them in the trash the next time it needs to go out.

I do keep a little bit of bacon grease in tupperware in the fridge just in case I want it to flavor something.

This is exactly what we do. I thought everybody did this until H and I were out for dinner with friends a few years ago and they were talking about this "crazy" roommate the wife had in college. They used the freezer grease thing as an example of her crazy and H and I were sitting there like, "uhhh...isn't that what everyone does?" (This is what both of our mothers did when we were growing up.)

We came to realize later that the roommate may or may not have been crazy, but the wife in that relationship certainly was.

AstridMagnussen

H thinks having a garbage disposal makes that dump okay.  It doesn't right?

Kristie33

Bowl, tinfoil, let it harden, crumple and throw away

 

angelaa73

happywife123:

I've asked H a million times not to dump it down the drain.  Guess what I just caught him doing??

If you guys lived above me I'd sue your broke asses! 

lite-bright

Throw it in the trash! Disposals make no difference, the fat still congeals and can really, really screw up pipes -- yours, or the city's -- and cause sewer backups. It's like fat clogging in arteries, same thing. 

The NYT had a really fascinating story about this a few years ago, about how restaurants in particular cause huge problems for the city sewers because they just let their grease traps overflow instead of cleaning them and maintaining them. 

Here's a story from MSNBC:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42709424/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/kitchen-grease-isnt-sliding-through-sewers/#.T54Pd7Omh2A 

Gretchenindisguise

We do a can in the freezer too. 

Bluesmoothy

If I'm browing lean ground beef, I try to sop it up w/ paper towels and then toss them. I have been known to dump it down the drain. I know this is bad.

As far as bacon, I usually let it congeal and then I scrape it off in the trash. Or I pour it in a can and then toss the can.