Drink it.
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SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 months ago
So… What are you supposed to do with oil if not pouring it down the drain?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 months ago
officermike@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Take it to your local recycling center, if they have the means to collect it.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Put it on the doorhandles of the neighbours you don’t like
herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I pour it into the cowl vents of cars that were parked by assholes, but only when I’m out of eggs to crack in there instead.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Truly my bred’ren
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 4 months ago
I’ve heard you can use it to lubricate outdoor-facing hinges
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are ways to make it harden for bin disposal, but if I’m feeling cheeky I just put used oil back in the plastic jug once it’s cooled down and bin that
superkret@feddit.org 4 months ago
There are ways to make it harden for bin disposal
That’s the worst pickup line I ever heard.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My wife has responded to lines nearly that bad, but I’ll report back with any success. 🫡
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I save the plastic grocery store bags and use those. Since they frequently have holes, I double or sometimes triple bag it, depending on how nasty the oil is and how much I’ll regret not taking the time later if it seeps into my garbage bin.
NoneYa@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Pour it in the city water reservoir
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
If small amounts of oil that hardens when at room temp, like bacon fat. Throw it in a tin can to cool, garbage when the can fills. Oil that doesn’t harden, personally I put a bunch of dish soap into the oily pan to absorb the oil and wash it down the sink. Not sure if the dish soap does enough but seems safe to me.
If its a large amount, like for deep frying. Local recycling might take it. I know curbside pickup will take used motor oil for me, so I imagine they’d take fryer oil too.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 4 months ago
absorb the oil
That’s not how that works. You’re wrecking your pipes.
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I don’t do it with lots of oil. I mentioned putting bacon fat in a tin can, so we’re talking less than you’d get cooking bacon. See my other reply about semantics of absorb. For small amounts, the oil will emulsify with the soap. Which then can be rinsed away with water. This is how it makes your dishes clean, I’m sure it works the same down the drain.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
I’m not sure why you’re getting so many downvotes, your system seems reasonable to me!
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
put a bunch of dish soap into the oily pan to absorb the oil
all science people are in pain right now
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
We’re not in science class.
sciencing.com/adding-soap-oil-water-7408600.html
soap molecules can break the oil molecules into smaller ones and allow the water molecules attached to them to surround the smaller oil fragments, creating an emulsion.
Is close enough in plain english to absorb the oil.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No, it’s not.
Absorption /= emulsification. Nor does it equal adsorption.
They’re different, and have different properties.
An emulsification can be broken by agitation or introduction of another substance.
Soap and water do not absorb oil.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How dare you call mean science-person! I’m a proud moron and can feel the pain!
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Everyone else is upset about absorbing the oil. I’m way more upset that you’re throwing out perfectly good bacon grease that can be used in any number of dishes.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That stuff is like gold. Best thing for tortillas
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tortillas are the number one thing! But if you don’t need new tortillas (I can’t imagine why but some folks don’t have tortillas with nearly every meal, or so I’ve heard) it’s also great for sauteing pretty much anything.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
- bacon fat isn’t oil, it’s fat
- keep the bacon fat for cooking later, it’s amazing - just cover the tin and stick in in the fridge, it keeps really well
- if it’s a little bit of oil, first wipe with a paper towel, then wash with soap
- if it’s a lot of oil, I double-bag w/ plastic grocery bags and throw in the garbage; it’ll break down at the landfill
I wish our recycling took oil, but I’m not convinced they even recycle the things they do take. It’s definitely worth checking though.
pigup@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can use this to turn it into napalm: Waste Cooking Oil Powder (pack of 6) a.co/d/3WIT6Ff
Damage@feddit.it 4 months ago
Take it to the recycling center? Here they recently introduced a few oil dumpsters as well
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
My city actually has us pouring our oil in the compost bins. But in ye olde days, my parents would collect all the oil in the big yogurt containers/milk jugs and then throw it in the trash.
stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
This should only be done for vegetable based oils.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Well yes, I’m not throwing motor oil in my compost am I?
stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I was referring to seed-based oils.
It should go without saying that motor oil is also inappropriate, yes
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Take it to the recycling center. Even just tossing it into the trash is better than pouring it down the drain. If you toss it in the trash it will just get incinerated. If you pour it down the drain it can clog the sewage system.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“it will just get incinerated”
Look at you, living in a country where they actually do something with trash instead of just accumulating it in a huge field
jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Going to the dump is so weird. It’s just like, here’s a field…just throw your shit wherever and let’s get outta here.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Better for fighting Climate Change. Unless your incinerators are burning hotter than anything our regulators would ever enforce.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
It eventually becomes a huge hill, then we can build a ski slope on it.
Cliff@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I know a place where they did exactly this.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You have incinerators in your area? Everything in my area is landfill, so it will eventually become dirt.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Do plastics go in the landfill too? Or is it somehow separated so that only stuff that decays in years rather than centuries goes there?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The regular trash doesn’t get separated, it’s just dumped. There’s also almost no restrictions on what can go in there, our trash cans are massive, and we have to pay for recycling, so many people just don’t bother (and a second trash can is not much more than a recycling bin).
We do have a recycling service that accepts most plastics (#1-#7), and they claim to recycle it, but they have pretty strict standards (needs to be clean, need to separate caps from bottles/jugs, etc), so I wouldn’t be surprised if most of it just ends up at the landfill anyway. Our area is a “single sort” facility, meaning people just dump everything into one bin and they sort it on their end. This means workers are even more likely to just throw stuff out that isn’t easily identifiable as recyclable.
One big issue is that they don’t accept glass, so to recycle glass, you need to take it somewhere special. I’m pretty obsessive about recycling, so I go out of my way to recycle everything I can (I have a bag of dead batteries in the garage, I make regular trips to recycle glass, etc), but I highly doubt most people bother. In fact, I have a few neighbors with 2 garbage cans and no recycling can.
tyler@programming.dev 4 months ago
The landfill stuff doesn’t eventually turn into dirt. They purposefully make sure that it’s wrapped in plastic in such a way that it never decomposes. Landfills are terrible.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They do it to protect the water table from things like battery acid. But a good chunk of it will become dirt, because there’s enough organic matter in mixed trash to decompose. It’ll just take a really long time because of the mix of plastic and whatnot.