Depends on how much grease you have— always stored bacon grease in glass jars to use later for greasing pans and given bacony flavor. Secondly, grease pours easily and is liquid when hot, but because it’s hot you can’t pour it into the trash, or wipe it clean with paper towels as mentioned. You have to let it cool which means it becomes more of a mess.
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tungsten5@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
You shouldn’t pour it down the drain for obvious reasons but putting it in a jar is weird af. Is there some actual reason for the jar that I don’t know? Whenever I have to do the dishes and there is a lot of grease in a pan I just put a few papertowels (if needed) in the trash and pour the grease in there. When I’m done with the dishes I take the trash out.
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 5 days ago
polydactyl@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes but hot grease can damage plumbing and cool fast enough to cause clogging over time. Pour it down the sink is totally fine, but you gotta run hot water with it
doktormerlin@feddit.org 4 days ago
with Premium Brand paper towels it really doesn’t matter, you can let the pan cool down and then wipe it with the paper towel. Works really good
Lemmyuser2702@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I only use a few paper towels cleaning out the jar when it’s full. That’s my reasoning.
ceiphas@feddit.org 5 days ago
In Germany you can get a free bucket for collecting grease at your local recycling center. When its full, you exchange it for an empty one.
menemen@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I think that is specific for your town/city. We don’t have that here. But tbh, if you are not deepfrying a lot of stuff, letting it cool down, whiping the oil out with a paper towel is normally enough. If this isn’t enough, people normally use old glass jar and throw it into the Restmüll (this is also how our local waste company tells us to do it). Naturally, there are different solutions available for industrial cases.
tungsten5@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Really? Thats pretty cool fr. Is that offered so people don’t pour it down the drain?