{"id":6268,"date":"2016-06-30T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2016-06-30T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:07:14","slug":"used-cooking-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/used-cooking-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do With Your Used Cooking Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s how it goes: You fry up some \u2026 oh, we don\u2019t know, let\u2019s go with Gulf oysters. And you eat them and they\u2019re lovely and satisfying and then it comes time to clean the kitchen and you realize you\u2019ve got a big ol\u2019 pot o\u2019 spent cooking oil sitting on your stove.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s vegetable oil,\u00a0bacon grease<\/a>\u00a0or any other kind of common kitchen lipid, there are some good things to do with it and some bad things to do with it. Let\u2019s discuss.<\/p>\n

Bad<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s bad to pour it down the sink. Even if you run a bunch of hot water with it, even if you mix it with an equal amount of dish soap. The problem is, that grease\u00a0will\u00a0<\/em>cling to plumbing. Restaurants have devices installed to catch grease as it goes down the drain, and can be fined if they don\u2019t. This is a big deal. Sometimes an entire neighborhood can be affected. So don\u2019t do this.<\/p>\n

Decent<\/h2>\n

A decent thing to do would be\u00a0to re-use it<\/a>. Just use common sense, here. Don\u2019t use the oil you used to fry the oysters to bake a cake (unless you want an oystery cake, which \u2026 to each his own), but if you made some french fries, it\u2019s perfectly fine to re-use that oil to fry up some chicken fingers or whatever. Bacon grease is a wonderful thing in which to cook eggs or hamburger patties or something along those lines.<\/p>\n

You can store it in jars, of course, but another option is to freeze it into little cubes for future use. It\u2019ll keep for about a year that way.<\/p>\n

Cooking oil can be re-used multiple times. Just filter it, store it and you\u2019re good to go.<\/p>\n

Good<\/h2>\n

We\u2019re all for conservation and recycling, but sometimes you just don\u2019t want that oil. Maybe it burned, or it got filled with lots of bits of food, maybe you just don\u2019t feel like keeping it. \u00a0Here\u2019s how to get rid of it:<\/p>\n

Let it cool. If it\u2019s bacon fat or butter or something that was once a solid, let it become solid once again and just throw it away in a jar.<\/p>\n

Another option is to\u00a0compost it<\/a>. It will do a compost pile a lot of good. However, be sure only to do this with vegetable oil that has been used to cook something other than meat, as animal fats will attract vermin to your compost pile.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. Cook with it, throw it in the trash, put it in your compost pile. Just please don\u2019t dump it down the sink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s how it goes: You fry up some \u2026 oh, we don\u2019t know, let\u2019s go with Gulf oysters. And you eat them and they\u2019re lovely and satisfying and then it comes time to clean the kitchen and you realize you\u2019ve got a big ol\u2019 pot o\u2019 spent cooking oil sitting on your stove. Whether it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}