To ask what you do with cooking fat?

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I always stick it in a plastic bag and bin it. Trying to reduce plastic bag use though...

Our local recycling centre takes old cooking oil. Save it in a bottle and when full bring it down if your recycling facility offers that

local recycling centre takes it-don't know what they do with it though

If solid and not more than a cm deep, wipe up with kitchen towel and put in bin. If more (eg when I deep fry treats like doughnuts now and again), into an old milk carton and takebto the dump where they have an oil disposal bin. Dump is very close and I seem to end up going there with other stuff pretty regularly anyway.

We have an oil-disposal bin nearby, with all the other bins for glass, plastic, paper etc.

If it's bacon fat I save it to use in pastry or other dishes

Collect it up and bin it. I have to admit Ive never had to dispose of fat or oil except for the time when I tried to do homemade poppadoms

Our council takes jars of used cooking oil if it's left on top of the food waste bin

Mystery where all these fatbergs are coming from. Can't ALL be my fat

Cooking fat usually goes either in an old milk bottle or takeaway container to go in the bin or a shopping bag at a push

I bin it.

Mystery where all these fatbergs are coming from. Can't ALL be my fat

There was a documentary on fatbergs last year. It was really interesting (and slightly disgusting).
Fatbergs can be quite hazardous for those who have to clean them out (between the gasses it produces and the things like used needles they contain). It was a definite eye opener that’s for sure.
A lot of fatbergs were found to contain wet wipes and tampons.
People are under the impression that flushable ones are ok to flush when they really aren’t

The biggest problem with fats is from restaurants, however domestic use will add to it, and may cost you personally a lot of money to clear out your drains.

@jimmyhill Down the sink. Life's too short.

How very selfish 😡

I use a fat trapper (Absorb Bin) from Lakeland if I’m doing a roast but usually I just wipe out the pan with kitchen paper or stale bread and put in the food waste ( we can put small amounts of kitchen paper and newspaper on ours).

Let it cool and scrape it into a compostable food waste bag for the green bin

I love the way that a question about how to dispose of cooking oil turns into a competitive thread about how little fat you use in your virtuously healthy diet.

OP, I pour oil and other cooking waste into glass jars that contained things like mustard and horseradish. We get through a lot of mustard so we always have empty jars.

I wipe out the rest with kitchen towels and throw them into a street bin because it's easier than waiting for a collection - we don't have wheely bins.

It probably takes about two months to fill a jar to the top but I might throw it out earlier if I can't stand looking at it and have another jar.

I'm going to start another one tonight when I dice with heart disease and fry some venison steaks.

I asked this once at a family gathering. A cousin said that she uses her babies nappies to soak it up, and then throws it in the bin.

My cousin's grandmother (who's about 80) on the other hand...said that she puts it it into a plastic bag, then waits until nightfall to sneak out to the local park with a spade to bury it in the flower bed!!

Tip it on the soil outside in a corner of the garden!

We either soak bread in it and feed it to our hens, or pour it onto used tissues / kitchen roll and throw it onto the next garden fire we have.

Down the sink with some hot water

I wasn’t actually joking... there’s no way I’m going to mess with nappies and glass jars, and the black bin is too small as it is without adding extra kitchen roll to the mix.

Pour it into an empty can, takes ages to fill up

We've got one of these:
www.anglianwater.co.uk/environment/how-you-can-help/we-products.aspx

I put solid fat in the food waste bin but any liquid oil/fat goes in a large, empty coffee jar and that gets binned when it's full. My LA does collect clean oil in a plastic bottle to be recycled.

Catgoals that's what causes fatbergs, it should never be tipped down the sink.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7644044.stm

Those who selfishly and lazily pour oil and fat down the sink should read this.

I think there are bigger environmental issues, really. Keeps someone in a job anyway!