To ask what you do with cooking fat?

[greathat]

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

Roast fat is mainly spooned off and used for roasties or ends up in the gravy. Crackling scoffed by DH.

Roast chicken fat is chucked in the pot with the carcass when I make stock.

Bacon fat is soaked up to make fried bread.

I don’t pour off mince fat; the flavour is all in the fat and it stays in the pot to get eaten.

The only fat I really discard is from sausages. That is left to solidify then chucked in the bin.

Hmm, sounds like we eat a lot of fat. We don’t eat meat everyday though and we’re all slim; DH and I have a safe cholesterol reading.

That's because eating fat doesn't make you fat Tinkly

People having a go about my comment asking where the fat is com8ng from - my diet isn’t either particularly healthy or unhealthy. If I cook chicken it’s often in a sauce so any fat stays in that. Steak doesn’t make any when griddled hot. I rarely do a roast, but the joispces and fat make the gravy if I do. I use olive oil when cooking sauces, but it doesn’t separate out.
I have just realised I get fat out of sausages. I let that solidify in the foil which was under them then bin it.
I still don’t get a sense of when fat would be problematic or make enough to fill a yoghurt pot.

I agree cardi. For me, it would only be on the rare occassion that I deep fry something.

Also, I certainly wouldn’t pour lots of liquid fat down the sink, but if I am cleaning out a grill pan after doing sausages (do use foil but sometimes it gets underneath) or a roasting tin after making the gravy, I would use washing up liquid to emulsify the coating of fat and then it gets rinsed away down the sink- is that not normal?

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.

Good fats are healthy, always been that way. Too much fat has never been and is still not healthy.

www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/different-fats-nutrition/

I hardly use it, but when we do, I just pour it into the ground in the furthest back corner of my yard, and throw a shovel of soil on to it.
Never had an issue

I put it down the sink. Why aren’t you supposed to??

Read what others have written and you will find out! It is bad for the drains and causes fatbergs

Waste of nice tasty fat, binning it! I use duck fat drained off the roast for cooking potatoes and making gravy.
If frying, I use a minimum smear of olive oil in a non stick pan, so there isn’t any left at the end. I use extra lean mince and don’t eat sausages, so I don’t tend to generate much fat to reuse.

@Howvery

I assume you're joking or just trying to provoke a reaction? If not then pay attention to all the water campaigns telling you not to do that because of the blockages it causes and the massive costs involved to clear them up.

@Theinvestigator.
Not at all. I actually have never heard this before.
I didn’t realise it was such an issue (have just had a google). Never seen a water campaign etc... about it. Glad I now know and shall stop.