To wait to responsibly dispose of cooking oil in a container

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Kids made fried chicken and the cooking oil has been sitting in a deep pan for 4 days. What do people normally do? I’m not used to deep-frying, I was going to wait to dispose of it in a suitable container but OH says pour it down the sink…

I find a container with a lid (yoghurt tub or the empty oil bottle) and just accept it’s not going to be recycled - don’t pour it down the sink!

We pour it in a pot in the garden and the animals all have a little treat

We fry stuff like this about twice a year so I’m not going to beat myself up too much about the environmental impact of the non recycled plastic but I’m interested to hear if there’s a better way.
Anything that’s been shallow fried (like a fried egg) gets kitchen paper shoved in the pan to absorb the excess oil and then binned.

Don’t pour it down the sink, it could block it. I pour mine out in the garden.

I pour into a bag (one of the strong sealable ones), seal and chuck in the bin.

Don’t pour it down the sink, I’ve made that mistake!
i do what previous poster said - dispose in the empty bottle

I'd pour it into a thick food waste bag stuffed with paper towels to soak it up and bin it.
Never pour oil down the drain.

Ours gets poured into a doubled up carrier bag, tied up and put in the outside waste bin.

Yes this was a litre bottle of vegetable oil so more than I’m used to. Could pour it in the garden if that’s one of the most environmentally friendly ways to do it. As much as I hate the water companies at the moment, I wont pour it down the sink.

If it's a regular thing you could ask a local takeaway - they get money for recycling it so would probably happily add it to their waste oil.

Please DO NOT pour it down the sink! Have you seen the fatbergs blocking our sewarage system? Can you put it back in the container it came out of, seal it and bin it? Oil and fat do not belong down the sink.

Not poured on the earth, it won’t do any good at all! Back in the bottle ready for next time is the usual, I’d think. You can use it a teaspoon at a time for shallow frying.

Just into the bin in a couple of plastic bags.

Can’t you just put it in a container and use it again when they next make something deep fried?

Our local tip has an area you can get rid of cooking oil , I just save it up in a 2 litre bottle and take it there

It looks a bit murky with bits of batter so no I don’t think so.

Use the empty veg oil bottle

Be careful with disposing paper towels/rags etc soaked in oil! Look up spontaneous combustion with oils and just check that the oils you’re using are safe to bin this way.

You can pour it through a sieve lined with kitchen paper towel and bottle it. That's what I used to do when I deep fried stuff. Makes it last much longer once all of the bits are out.

If it isn't too strong smelling/contaminated, we put it in a mug or lunch box and reuse it during cooking.

If it isnt practically reuseable then we put it into glass jars which we keep a collection of.

Our local tip has a container for cooking oil. Whenever we go, we'll take our jam jars and tip the oil in, then bring the jars back ready for refilling again.

If we start running out of jar containers for oil then that might prompt a tip trip.

I just came on to say sieve it, or use a coffee filter, back into the bottle it came out of.

Traditionally, it lived in the chip pan indefinitely.

Do not pour it down the sink, you can soak it into used kitchen roll and put it in the bin. If you want enough for someone to collect you need to start a fish and chip shop!

Oven cook just sprayed with oil or use an air fryer next time.

It’s not exactly environmentally friendly

Put it through a sieve lined with kitchen roll or make a funnel from the top end of a plastic bottle, line with kitchen roll and filter back into the original bottle the oil came in. It can be used more than once.

I have a deep fat fryer that I only cook chips or scotch eggs in and never change the oil after one use, but when I do clean it out I put the cold oil into a plastic 4 pint milk carton/old cooking oil bottle and put it in with the household rubbish.