How do you dispose of Liquid food waste?

[Kago2790]

We had ramen noodles today, noodles eaten but loads of salty/spicy soup that we mostly leave.

If I let it cool and put in green compostable bins with other food waste it still ends up as a bag with loads of liquid at the bottom that ends up leaking in my green bin which stinks that out until I next clean it.

Toilet? Are there any issues with putting this stuff in the toilet?

Any other solutions. Not just for Ramen obviously but any saucy food waste.

Aibu to use the toilet for food waste?

why aren’t you pouring it down the sink once cooled
Unless it’s full of fat there’s no reason liquid can’t go down the sink

I just put noodle water down the sink

Stuff like that just down the plughole.

Erm down the sink? Unless it's oil/fat in which case I let it solidfy and bin it.

Sorry should have said we sometimes do put it down the sink but sometimes bits of veg etc get in the sink. Plus some sauces are a bit thicker than noodle soup.

If it's not sink-able, I put it in a container, stick it in the freezer then put the frozen block in the bin on bin day.

Freeze it into a block and then wrap in newspaper and put it in the food bin on morning of collection.

I freeze it then put it in the bin when it’s time to throw away.

Flush it down the loo

Down the sink. 🤷‍♀️

If it was solids, down the waste disposal.

I just strain the lot through a sieve/ chinois, solids in the bin and liquids down the plug hole.

You could sieve the bits out?
bits in bin, liquid down plug hole

Shove the veg through the plughole with your fingers and run the tap whilst disposing of thicker sauces.

I can't believe you can function on a daily basis if you need people to tell you how to do simple things like that.

I often freeze stuff like this. Put in the food waste on collection day.

Doesn't the sink get blocked over time/stink?

No no no. Absolutely do not do this.

Our water provider specifically asked customers not to do this.

@Kago2790 Do you not own a sieve?
Just pour the leftovers into the sieve over the sink (assuming there is no fat in them) then dispose of the solids in the manner you would normally do.

Ignore advice to shove the veg down the plughole.

Not if you run the tap.

3 ddogs. Never any waste...

Ramen soup- I'd pour the liquid down the sink and use a strainer to stop noodles/veg going down also.

Thicker sauces- Add to the food caddy that gets collected weekly. I use compostable bags and add some kitchen paper in the bottom.

Anything fatty- let the fat solidify and scrape into the food caddy. I then make a judgement if the 'liquid' can go down the sink or also in the food caddy.

I don't put things in the toilet, because its harder to bend down to clean any splashes/mess than if I pour liquid into the kitchen sink.

I pour it through a sponge. The sponge collects any larger bits that I can transfer to the bin.

Yeah, it makes sense. certainly for the noodle example where it is very watery.

tip into a colander lined with kitchen paper.
after liquid has drained put the paper & residue in the green bin

Don’t you guys have these sink strainers?

This is genius.

This 🤣