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...

So because there are other environmental issues we shouldn't bother about the millions spent on traded sewers because people chuck their fat lazily down the sink

@Leeds2 Sun 24-Mar-19 21:51:51
I once read (maybe on Mumsnet!) that you could tip fat, oil etc into an empty yoghurt pot, with a bit of string from the bottom to over the top, and once it was full you could use it as a fat ball for birds. I have tried this, and although the fat solidifies, I can never get it out of the pot in any way which would be suitable for using as a fat ball!
So, maybe you would have better luck with this or, do as I do, and just throw the pot away once it is full.

Have you tried cutting the yoghurt pot with scissors?

I'd go with a plastic bottle to dispose of it. If not our local takeaway dispose of it so could be worth an ask??

i don’t think I cook anything which leaves cooking fat which needs disposal. What kind of things are you cooking?

Ugh there's always one isn't there! Any kind of meat you cook will render some fat. I'm more worried about what you are cooking and not draining fat off to be honest!!

Any fat from cooking mince, sausages etc gets poured into a glass jar and disposed off. Although I'm definitely going to look into the fat ball idea!

As an aside I was once at a friends house while she was cooking for us and she actually drained an entire pan of fat that she had been deep frying something in straight down the sink. I was

I have Eliza and it was awfully messy, and did little for my blood pressure!
I will give it another go though, as I have recently bought some new scissors which might help.

I cook anything which can generate fat (eg sausages, lamb) in foil/foil containers. Then, when cold, scrunch up the container/foil away in the general waste. Also means less washing up!

I got a plastic fat pot, free from Yorkshire water. I pour liquid fat into it and pour it away in the outside bin when it's full. I use mainly vegetable oil so it stays liquid.

Leeds2 I think the idea is that you hang the pot upside down and the cute little birds peck the fat out from underneath.

BUT if you have a hole in the base with the string going through, then the hot fat will leak out.

Used to take mine out in a milk bottle and tip it down the main drain in the street until someone told me it's not suppose to go there now I still fill the milk bottle but put in the bin instead, but I do tend to use the same oil for a while.

Don't really cook anything that produces that much fat. A little from a roast chicken maybe, I just spatula into the food waste bin when it's cooled and solidified.

If it’s from a deep fat fryer you should be taking it to the dump.

Nor all recycling centres take fat/ oil - ours doesn't so I bin it

I don't cook anything that has left over fat, but if I did I would use kitchen paper/empty tub etc

how do you not cook with any fats or oils? Don't you ever pan fry? Fish? Steaks? Omelette? What about roast meats and sausages, lots of fat comes out

Spag bol/curry/chilli etc i use 1 tbsp olive oil.I never use beef minces usually lean pork or turkey so no fat runs off anyway. I cook a roast maybe once a month but never lamb, sometimes beef topside so no fat really or chicken so the fat will go in food waste bin. I have chicken sausages . Sometimes grill bacon on foil and the fat will cool and go in the general waste with the foil which I would otherwise recycle. Just realising I probably cook quite healthily.

Cooking fat should always be either put into the bin directly, or into another container (for example, a plastic milk jug for oils, a tin can for animal fats) and then put in the bin. NEVER put hot grease down a sink - it can clog the pipes, leading to costly repairs for you and your community.

The city near where I live has the following advisory on their ad campaigns:

Store it, don't pour it!

Put in a jar, wrap with ribbon and sell at Christmas Fayres for roast potatoes.

"#enterprising"

We either soak bread in it and feed it to our hens

We haven't got hens but we've probably got rats

@Leeds2 Mon 25-Mar-19 17:03:05
I have Eliza and it was awfully messy, and did little for my blood pressure!
I will give it another go though, as I have recently bought some new scissors which might help.

Maybe freeze it then cut it, or line the pot with clingfilm.

Another person here who had no idea people regularly threw out large amounts of fat!

I fry LOADS of stuff but I don't use more fat than it takes to coat the pan and whatever I'm frying - there's definitely none left to pour off afterwards! If I'm cooking with mince I just tip it in and fry it. The fat that comes out of roasts we usually use to make gravy ..

Don't think that's me being virtuously healthy (basically everything I eat is fried at some stage in cooking..), I just don't use more than is needed - surely if you're regularly pouring off fat after frying stuff you could just pour less out?

My dh used to be a plumber for the LA and when there was a fatberg on the news a few months ago his face wrinkled up apparentley they smell like death and this was from a man who used to shovel shit for a living!

If it's fat that is solid when cooled I scrape it into a glass jar and eventually bin it. But I honestly believed that cooking oil that remains liquid when cool is ok to go down the sink, although apparently it's not? Can anyone explain please? Though I don't really use that kind of fat anyway.

I'm surprised that some of you think eating fat = unhealthy and low fat = healthy. I know government advice has been slow to catch up but this has been roundly debunked for ages.

If it's a lot of fat - like from a roast - it goes in the bin along with the carcass and is disposed of with general waste. If it's small amounts of fat it is either wiped up or rinsed down the sink with boiling water.

I pour mine into a tub with stale bread and anything else the birds can eat then squish it all together and put it on the bird table.

@SweetPetrichor

Don't pour fat down the sink!!! The boiling water just stays hot long enough for it to clear out of your pipe, but the fat congeals later on in the system causing massive problems and coats everyone money!!! How can you still be pouring fat down the sink after all he campaigns telling you not to!!!

Scottish Water's slogan is 'its a no brainer, use a container'

Fats and oils mix with wipes and other stuff people have flushed/ poured down the sink. It goes gooey and solidifies and forms fatbergs.