I used to pour it into a glass jar. But these days I’m just using a paper towel or 3 after it dries and chuckin it in the bin.
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Depends on what kind of leftover fat.
If frying something in measurable quantities of oil, the oil can be filtered to remove solids, then stored to re-use later.
If cooking something greasy like bacon or sausage, either I’ll cook other things in the same pan after, or I’ll pour it through a strainer, let it cool, and freeze it. Once I’ve saved a bunch, I clarify it.
Fat is flavor. In my house, it doesn’t get thrown away. There are lots of ways to reuse it.
Reusing cooking oil causes cancer. I thought this was wildly known, but I’m consistently surprised at how many people online say things like this.
This is why “drip jars” stopped being used in the 20th century. There used to be one in every house until it was understood it causes stomach cancer.
https://www.sfa.gov.sg/food-safety-tips/food-risk-concerns/risk-at-a-glance/reusing-cooking-oils
But singapore site links USDA q&a on how to reuse it safely and has section for “what you need to do if you reuse oil”. They don’t particularly advice or encourage single use.
Oil quality is dependent on storage method (strain it with filter, keep airtight non-transparent container etc) and cooking temperature so people need to be informed, but I don’t see reusing it once or twice with appropriate care cause significant harm.
That’s if you take it beyond the smoke point. Which you wouldn’t do if you are trying to avoid free radicals in your food to begin with. Even vegetable oil is extracted through a heating process.
Popcorn made in pre-used oil can be awesome, and an easy way to get rid of 100ml or so.
Omfg…bacon grease popcorn…I’m about to take 10 years off my life
Hell yea. I used some oil recently that had be used to good something (IDK… housemate food) with heaps of curry powder flavours and some chilli. That was awesome.
Popcorn made in pre-used oil can be awesome, and an easy way to get rid of 100ml or so.
Then there was that time in college I tried to re-use oil I had previously fried shrimp in.
Turns out shrimp-flavored popcorn is not an enjoyable experience!
Some lessons only take once to cement the learning for a lifetime.
Haha, yeah. Also, anything with too many burnt carbs is not great.
What kind of filter?
Sounds pretty good. Oil is expensive too.
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Citation needed.
A generic insurance website is not a citation.
And literally everything causes cancer.
People have reused cooking oil for millennia.
Here’s another website. Google used to be so much easier to use.
https://www.sfa.gov.sg/food-safety-tips/food-risk-concerns/risk-at-a-glance/reusing-cooking-oils
Singapore is a solid source, right? It’s bizarre to me that this isn’t more widely known.
Wipe with paper towel, toss in trash.
I let it cool off and then scrape it into the trash/compost. Sometimes I use a paper towel, sometimes I just scrape it.
Paper towel -> trash.
Also a reason why we don’t deep fry something and only fry semi submerged
Goes into the compost.
But the salt.
Not all oil is salty. I suppose there are probably pros and cons to composting it, but I’d expect it to draw pests like crazy.
It’s generally just animal fat for me, unsalted. I make a lot of soup stocks.
Saw this thread from a mile away and ran to tell everyone I don’t have that problem because I own an air fryer
Does your airfryer nor drip the fat off of bacon? Or other fatty meat?
You out there making sunny side eggs with an airfryer?
Cooking some burgers in an air fryer recently, and it definitely leaves a lot of oil to dispose of!
We are gods among rodents, you and I.
My main source of grease and oil is from stuff i cook in my airfryer lol
You can compost it if you aren’t generating huge amounts. Mix it with something absorbent like sawdust or used coffee grounds and mix into a composter, and add extra “green material” like leaves or lawn clippings.
Depends how much is left. Alot then filter and jar. A little then paper towel and trash.
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A filter? What you doing with the filter?
Filtering out any chunky bits from the cooking so it doesn’t go back into the fat jar
Oh you are reusing the fat in the jar.
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Our city’s trash disposal also provides free plastic buckets for cooking oil. I try to use that as often as possible. I love it
Oh that’s cool actually. I hadn’t heard of that before.
Lick it off
The only correct response
If it cools into a solid fat then it goes in a bowl and put it outside for wildlife to enjoy some easy calories. A trail cam and some time has given me a good chunk of backyard nocturnal drama, like the falling out of two tomcats.
Liquid fat/oil is used to re-season pans or soaked up with a paper towel and dumped.
Man, living in a house sounds so cool sometimes 🥲
I have a spot in my yard that I pour cooking oil.
I currently use (probably too many) paper towels to absorb the oil and then toss them into the trash can. I’m not happy with this solution, but I don’t want to pour it down the drain.
I found this the other day https://fryaway.co/ but I haven’t tried it yet. It’s supposed to make the oil solid so you can more easily toss it.
Looks interesting but not at that price point for me. Seems more expensive than paper towels and probably worse overall for the environment since it’d be heavier than paper towel to transport to the store. Would be interesting to compare the carbon footprint. I also like how nowhere on the page did it compare it to paper toweling it into the trash. Just pouring it down a sink or putting it in a jar lol. That’s marketing
Would be interesting to compare the carbon footprint.
Yeah, definitely. I thought this was interesting because cleaning up certain dinners requires A LOT of paper towels. And then there are dinners where I end up with a small jar of oil, which is too much oil for paper towels. Thought this may save a few trees.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
I try not to deep fry anything, my body doesn’t need it, and the convection oven does a decent job. Shallow frying can also do a similar job most times at the cost of some extra time.
Decent quantity of bacon grease get collected for reuse. Small amounts just get paper toweled. If I did give in and deep fry something, that oil is being reused all week. Go big or go home.
When I’m done with it, I grab the smallest sealable container from the recycling, out the cooled fat in it, and it goes in the trash. It usually isn’t more than a cup or 2.
Reusing cooking oil many times increases your cancer risk more than cooking alone. Fyi
Don’t overreact. Depends on temperature and mostly how many times.
Appreciate the concern. The air fryer has all but eliminated my home frying. I always hated throwing out the oil, but I know it’s not great to keep around, so I was never big into frying at home.
