I've managed to scandalise dp with my cooking oil, recycling habits.

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We very rarely cook deep fried food, maybe once every 3 months the urge will strike and I'll do proper fish and chips or something. But it will be a one off (( nothing against fried food, just usually go to the chippy because it stinks the house out ))

Last night we cooked tempura chicken and.chips (( also had salt and pepper mushrooms, rice and curry sauce for anyone who cares. ))

Dp washed up, and as usual I poured the oil from the pan into a jug via a sieve then into an empty carton. Where it lives in my pully out cupboard. I was caught in the act and dp is now horrified and.convinced we'll all get food poisoning and die. I've just caught him trying to smuggle my hoarded oil into the bin.

I however pointed out the congealed, oil, with dead flies and God knows what living in it housed by a pan inches thick with grease and burnt offerings that lived in pretty much every house in the 70s and 80s. The oil, if I remember rightly would be topped up and only ever cleaned and changed on highdays and holidays.

I also think it's wasteful binning perfectly useable oil after being used once........chip shops etc won't do that.

So AIBU and a food poisoning harbouring slattern ?

Or is dp being a wasteful snob ?

I really wouldn't. Apparently reusing it releases a toxin called acrolein, which has carcinogenic properties and can increase your risk of cancer.

I will reuse oil once or twice, but I don't think it'd keep it sitting in the cupboard for months. I'd heard about it becoming carcinogenic too, so that worries me more than it going off.

Vegetable and non animal fat oils are bad for you. That’s what I’m most shocked at.

He wouldn't eat at my house then, Yorkshire pudding tins never get washed just wiped with paper towel. The bbq rack gets a quick scrape with a wire brush. i have had my own house for over 3 decades and i have never poisoned anyone.

I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned that reheating used cooking creates trans fats in the oil; the worst and most dangerous of fats. To do this is so bad for you. Just Google it, really. This is how trans fats are produced. If you'd dodge them in processed food don't make them yourself or feed them to your family x

*Reheating used cooking OIL, obviously.

The science that made people change from lard to a ‘healthy’ oil has now changed back.
Heating a mono saturated oil (olive, vegetable, rapeseed etc) makes it a hydrogenated/ trans fat which will raise cholesterol. Slightly better to use saturated fat (lard, coconut oil, goose fat, butter) For cooking at high temperatures. Mono saturated fats are ‘healthy’ if eaten cold (salad dressing).

Would definitely be concerned about creating trans fats by re-heating that oil.

I am unreasonably proud that I managed to start a nostalgia fest for chip pans full of lard preens
And yes, watching the lard melt was bizarrely fascinating

Mil had a chip pan of lard when DH and I got together in 2004! The chips were incredible.

A long time ago I stayed with my mum for ten days when she came out of hospital.

She lived on her own in chaos, with clutter everywhere. I spent quite a while getting grime and mess cleaned up in the kitchen and eventually had everything sparkling.

She went absolutely ballistic about the chip pan being clean though.

When I found it under the sink, it was open to the atmosphere with greyish green mould growing on it. Along with dust there were thin threads of something across it too. It was like some awful biological experiment gone wrong.

For many years since I’ve often wondered if I threw away the next Penicillin or something…

Ah the lard chip pan. Best chips ever. Egg and chips will always be one of my favourite meals. Sometimes my mum would spoon some of the chip pan lard into the frying pan for the eggs... best fried egg ever.

In the far off long ago we had a chip pan that lived in the cupboard. It contained a beige brown substance that was originally lard that had been fried and seived after each use, except the day we found mice footprints tracking across the greasy surface.

Major cupboard clean followed and a new pan purchased that had a lid.

To this day I am not keen on chips.

I once read somewhere that reusing oil can cause cancer. It could have been fake news or something but I never reuse oil now.

Perfectly normal and acceptable.

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Oh OP. This is Mumsnet where they’ll only handle their husband’s penis with tongs. You should have known the hygiene stasi will be here.*

😆😆😆 True

Cherry from what I've seen on here the lucky husband's are the ones that get handled with tongs. 😂😂😂

I love that two separate posters have mentioned mouse footprints in the lard!

Throwing it out would be bad for the planet.

I worked in a McDonald's when I was a teenager. The oil in the fryolator was just topped off, never changed.

Bread and dripping....

If using within a week or 2 then yes. 3m no!

We have a jar with a strainer in it to filter out the bits. A bit like this: www.ebay.co.uk/i/303595058674?rt=nc&_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20161006002618%26meid%3Dde40f24854a24527a4d94cd02c7bfdd3%26pid%3D100694%26rk%3D14%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D373034318580%26itm%3D303595058674%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2386202

We've never had any problems with it but only reuse oil used for veg, never meat or fish.

I could just eat a chip butty - thick white bread, proper butter and real chip pan chips.

And folded not cut

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