I'm gonna cook something this week that entails me fillng a frying pan quite full with oil to saute some potatoes. What's the best way to get rid of the oil after I've used it, surely it's wong to pour it down the sink?
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If you have a garden pour it in out there..,,if not and you have to put it down the sink pour it with tons of hot water and leave the tap running for a while after and pour loads of washing up liquid in it.
Our it through a sieve back into the bottle (when cool) DO NOT THROW IT DOWN THE SINK!
yeah... don't throw it down the sink... you'll regret it when you drains get blocked.
we let the oil cool right down.. & then pour it into old oil bottles, or coke bottles... & then bin it.
Mine goes down the sink but I hardly ever use very much at all. A small bottle of olive oil lasts me about a month.
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
Mine goes down the sink but I hardly ever use very much at all. A small bottle of olive oil lasts me about a month.
yeah... & washed down with hot soapy water I can see how that wouldn't cause problems.. its when you're emptying chips pans & deep fat fryers & stuff that the problems start (says she that has learned this the hard way)
Why throw it away? Oil is reusable if sieved and it's not been used to cook something that's strong flavoured.
Talking of blockages - my little grandson tore off a whole roll of toilet paper and put it down the toilet last week - then flushed it - the first I knew of it was when I heard 'NANNY< NANNY, NANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!'
Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
yeah... don't throw it down the sink... you'll regret it when you drains get blocked.
we let the oil cool right down.. & then pour it into old oil bottles, or coke bottles... & then bin it.
Ditto ,however you can use it again and again depending on what was fried in it.
|But you don't need a full pan of oil to saute potatoes
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
|But you don't need a full pan of oil to saute potatoes
Indeed - they are far nicer fried in very, very shallow oil - in which case there shouldn't be too much oil left over to worry about!
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
If you have a garden pour it in out there..,,if not and you have to put it down the sink pour it with tons of hot water and leave the tap running for a while after and pour loads of washing up liquid in it.
NO! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you pour it down the sink. I think there are bye laws against that, also I believe you can be served with a bill for cleaning the pipes that it gunges up. 
Cheers, I think I'll put it in some empty bottles and bin it.
How to dispose of used cooking oil
Domestic Premises
Householders can dispose of their waste cooking oil in their general household waste.
Waste cooking oils can be soaked into normal household rubbish or placed into rigid plastic containers. Small amounts of waste cooking oil could be soaked into bread as food for birds.
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
|But you don't need a full pan of oil to saute potatoes
Indeed - they are far nicer fried in very, very shallow oil - in which case there shouldn't be too much oil left over to worry about!
That's true soozy, it would just be like cleaning a greasy plate in that case. 
Originally Posted by longcat:
How to dispose of used cooking oil
Domestic Premises
Householders can dispose of their waste cooking oil in their general household waste.
Waste cooking oils can be soaked into normal household rubbish or placed into rigid plastic containers. Small amounts of waste cooking oil could be soaked into bread as food for birds.
That creates it's own problems. Bread is not really good for birds.
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Originally Posted by longcat:
How to dispose of used cooking oil
Domestic Premises
Householders can dispose of their waste cooking oil in their general household waste.
Waste cooking oils can be soaked into normal household rubbish or placed into rigid plastic containers. Small amounts of waste cooking oil could be soaked into bread as food for birds.
That creates it's own problems. Bread is not really good for birds.
Got a leaflet from the RSPB , and they reckon bread is fine so long as it's soaked .. the issue with it I think is it's a nutritionally lacking " filler" , though oil ups the nutritional value of it.
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Originally Posted by longcat:
How to dispose of used cooking oil
Domestic Premises
Householders can dispose of their waste cooking oil in their general household waste.
Waste cooking oils can be soaked into normal household rubbish or placed into rigid plastic containers. Small amounts of waste cooking oil could be soaked into bread as food for birds.
That creates it's own problems. Bread is not really good for birds.
So we solve one problem and create another 
we will have to start another topic on what not to feed wild birds.
How's it going Poolie? 
Hi,m sox I've not been on here much lately, been watching a lot of stuff on Youtube instead, but I'll be back soon, promise.
bit late for this I know but if you are using that much oil you are making chips not sautÃĐing potatoes.. they are shallow fried in a frying pan and gently tossed til crispy..
and yes reuse oil. .sieve it first.. as for disposal isn't there a new thing where people take old oil off you and can use it for running machinery etc after some sort of processing? am sure I've heard about that somewhere.. but maybe I dreamt it instead
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
as for disposal isn't there a new thing where people take old oil off you and can use it for running machinery etc after some sort of processing? am sure I've heard about that somewhere.. but maybe I dreamt it instead
Yes, there are companies which collect old cooking oil from restaurants/take-aways etc and refine it for use in Diesel engines. I think some councils are starting to provide a similar service for domestic cooking oil, but not mine, unfortunately.
ooooh so I didn't dream it then. .cheers Blizzie
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
ooooh so I didn't dream it then. .cheers Blizzie
There was something about it on telly, recently.
Taxis in London fill up on it and, apparently, it can smell of the food cooked in it. The bloke running the place said that he'd like it if people could choose which flavour food they'd like to fill the air with. Then you could order an Indian taxi, or Chinese, or Fish and Chips!
Yep 
Some canny folks have been doing this for ages. They drive around smelling of chip fat, which to me is a very pleasant smell indeed.
Originally Posted by Blizz'ard:
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
ooooh so I didn't dream it then. .cheers Blizzie
There was something about it on telly, recently.
Taxis in London fill up on it and, apparently, it can smell of the food cooked in it. The bloke running the place said that he'd like it if people could choose which flavour food they'd like to fill the air with. Then you could order an Indian taxi, or Chinese, or Fish and Chips!
hahaha
mmmmmmmmmm fish and chip smell ..lovely jubbly.. you could even sponsor a smelly cab to make sure it stops off at your takeaway on the way home
Can't remember where I saw it but it was some cooking show that said if you reheat oil too many times (12 I think) it becomes 100% saturated fat. I always keep the old bottles and pour it back in with a funnel then bin it 
Originally Posted by Cagney:
Can't remember where I saw it but it was some cooking show that said if you reheat oil too many times (12 I think) it becomes 100% saturated fat. I always keep the old bottles and pour it back in with a funnel then bin it
I thought it was worse than that and it actually became the dreaded trans-fat.
Originally Posted by squiggle:
Originally Posted by Cagney:
Can't remember where I saw it but it was some cooking show that said if you reheat oil too many times (12 I think) it becomes 100% saturated fat. I always keep the old bottles and pour it back in with a funnel then bin it
I thought it was worse than that and it actually became the dreaded trans-fat.
It could have been squiggle.