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Boomers: "these cast iron sewer pipes will last forever!!"

Putting grease down the drain can clog your pipes. Don't do that. Use one of the many alternatives (see meme and comments).

Hell nah, jar. Next time you pan fry something, use the bacon grease to take it to a whole nother level.

Ok pro tip for getting rid of your grease that doesn’t assume you have infinite containers lying around or make you wait forever for it to solidify.

Put a sheet of aluminum foil down over your drain so it creates a cup. Then pour your grease in that cup. Then drop an ice cube in if you feel like it.

Then just lift the edges and twist the top of your foil and put it in the trash.

Reduce FOG. Fats, Oils, Greases.

Especially if you're on septic. You can have clean pipes and a bricked tank or even worse clogged drainfield.

Sewage backing up into the home, or surfacing in the yard, and now the house is posted for non-occupancy and a 20-80k repair or replacement.

Gotem.

why the hell would someone throw out perfectly good bacon grease? or is that the joke, that the third fellow is deranged?

Pour the grease in a hole outside. Just dig a hole in the dirt where you don't walk a lot and pour it in there. It'll be fine.

As long as I rent, it goes down the drain.

This all probably sounds nuts, but here are my oil systems:

I wash out and recycle glass jars, but peanut butter jars are difficult to clean and will end up getting fat into the water system. So I keep the peanut butter jars for oil.

I also keep a bendy, steel decorating pallet in the kitchen for scraping out fat from the grill tray and rack. You’re left with some fat that you can wipe off with kitchen paper, which you can also use to wipe the pallet knife. Then washing up liquid and a splash of boiling water from the kettle.

There can be quite a lot of oil in leftover food, like sauces, too. I use a silicone spatula to scoop it off before washing.

I let it cool and then scrape it into our food waste bin. (I don’t know if grease composts but for us it’s moot; the city doesn’t compost food waste but instead makes it into pig feed or something.)

Yeah, I think the greese has seen enough generations by now .

My sister once asked if I could help with the kitchen sink in her house as it was blocked. I started taking waste pipes off and quickly realised there's a bunch of sardines stuck in one pipe. Her 15 year old daughter had shoved fish down the waste pipe of the sink rather than putting them in the bin. I still can't understand the logic in her head. Surely it's more difficult to push fish through the small holes at the bottom of the sink than it is to take 2 steps towards the bin.

Smdh if you dont add pan drippings to your beans.

E: or rice! Next time you cook yourself up a little pot of rice go on and put those drippings in there!

Some of us only learn the hard way.

I usually have so little oil left I just put enough dish soap in that it all mixes with water... Does that still clog my pipes?

You can actually pour it into a can or container, put a wick (or make one out of paper towel) and burn it like a candle. The aroma actually isn't that strong since it's mostly fat and it doesn't sputter or anything. The solids sink to the bottom while solidifying.

I use a fuckload of soap and hope it keeps the grease from re-forming. Is that still bad?

Can't talk about grease disposal without posting this.

Cook bacon in the oven in aluminum foil (it's better that way anyway) put paper towels in to soak the grease crumple it all into a wad and throw it away in the trash... ?

The trick is to save many jars of the stuff, so you can really go out in style.

In Japan there's a powder you can buy at shops that solidifies any pools of grease you drop it into, so you can then scrape it into the garbage.
I was going to share a link but all I could find was Amazon product pages and greasy blogs funneling you towards Amazon product pages, but you can find it by searching "Japan grease powder".

havent cooked bacon in like 10 years. Forgot this was a problem.