marighostBreaking the generational barriers
POTOOOOOOOOLet it be the landlord’s problem.
The tenant special
Like a landlord is going to fix your clogged drain anytime soon. They’re not your mom, they’re a business. You’ll be lucky if a plumber comes out in a couple of weeks.
It ruins things for everyone in your local area though. Fatburgs aren’t localised to your landlords house.
bdonvrExactly.
Concrete in the toilet, now that’s an idea.
𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢Yeah.
They’re not doing maintenance until something happens.
Like waste water coming up your drains, flooding your apartment with black, hardened, crystalized fat and stinking water because your upstairs neighbor has the washing machine running but the water can’t go anywhere because the waste water main is clogged somewhere between your flat and the one below yours. This will happen on the day after tradies finish putting new laminate flooring in your entire apartment.
Don’t ask me how I know.
npr.org/…/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-roc…
You’re not just “sticking it to the man” when you do this though — you’re being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
jumping redditor [they/them]that’s the city’s fault for banning private septic systems
Imagine a city where everybody has their own septic system to maintain?
LainTrainThat’s on the private water companies and failing to invest and fix the infrastructure properly. Fuck them they are the same bastards as the landlords if not worse.
“Yeah take that landlord!”
*clogs their own pipes*
the pipes can handle it
should*
Pipes are made for liquids. Congealed fat is not a liquid. Pipes should not be made to handle things that aren’t meant to go in them.
Whatever is downstream of my sink should be built to handle food waste. That must include fats. Not my fault if they half-assed it honestly. Build a better world next time.
Yes, it is your fault for thinking you know better than centuries of plumbing experience. Pull your head out of your ass and stop pouring grease and melted fat down the sink, you inept heathen.
Why should I give one single shit about any of this?
Because some random on the internet said so in a shitposting thread?
I pay taxes so they keep the goddamn gutters running, if they’re made badly and aren’t fit for purpose - wastewater from washing fucking dishes - just make them better.
It’s not rocket science, but the approach is the same - you don’t bitch about space being hard - you build better rockets, better fuels, better calculators for trajectories and so on.
If you that concerned with grease maybe consider taking a shower. I’d rather flush grease down the drain than my one life like some of y’all.
Your ignorance is not only pathetic, but indicative of a massive ego. Have fun being a contemptable piece of shit through life. It won’t serve you well.
If you think I’m a piece of shit for doing what is just normal and widely accepted as such because there is no reason to the contrary you can provide, you must live a helluva sheltered life. I’d adjust your expectations and fast if you want to get through life.
Just throw some dishwasher detergent down there once a month. It’ll be fine.
I once cut out a piece of pipe in some guys home, because it was all fucked. The pipe was suuuuper heavy and upon inspection it looked like someone poured concrete down there. It was very hard to clean, the guy had to hammer on it while having a pressure washer wash it out. As it turns out, his wife used multiple washing tabs in the machine to make it extra clean. She did that for over a decade.
Well she clearly wasn’t preheating her hot tap water.
/s
Yeah, you can also fuck up your dishwasher pipes very quickly by using descaling meant for washing machines. Because of the salt you already add.
I’ve done this too for some washes. The shrinkflation on those capsules is unreal too so gotta throw in a couple to make it up for that. How did it cause a problem?
Don’t pour hot grease in a glass jar or it’ll shatter and spill hot grease all over your counter and then when you grab a flimsy piece of plastic from the recycling and try to push it on to stop the spill and the plastic collapses and hot grease goes all over your forearm and gives you 2nd degree burns and your floor is covered in broken glass you will regret it.
Are you... speaking from experience?
That’s why I pour it into the jar in the sink.
That and I’m really messy and the sink is the easiest place to clean up spilled grease.
I use a Pyrex container if I want to safe the grease. Otherwise I make a bowl of aluminum foil, pour it into that, and toss it once it hardens.
Modern pyrex isnt any more heat resistant than any other soda glass, they switched in like the 90s. But regular glass is fine for grease, I use an old pasta sauce jar.
Holy shit it’s true! They no longer make “Pyrex” cookware out of borosilicate glass but instead soda lime glass.
DaftyduxGot any advice about tubes?
Eh, a small mason jar is tough enough to handle a few tablespoons of bacon grease or whatever without shattering. But sure, if you’ve got a lot of grease at once, let it cool down first (or better yet, refrigerate the pot roast or whatever it is you’ve made, so that you can just pull the grease off the top of the pot in one hardened puck).
I’ve been pouring hot grease in glass jars for decades without having one shatter. You’re severely overestimating the risks
I may be speaking from experience. I only pour grease into cans and foil now.
I have had this happen once. Cold jar, didnt let the grease cool enough… was my bad. Same as if you’re going to put it into a metal can while its still really hot, make sure the can isnt sitting on something that will melt.
I think the best advice is “Dont pour the grease while its still hot enough to burn you”
It depends on where you’re from, glass jars/drinking glasses in Germany don’t shatter from thermal shock, but they do in the US.
I reflexively yelled at my boss once because he poured recently boiling water out of a glass and turned the cold faucet on to rinse it out while scrubbing, and I thought he was about to cut the shit out of his hand. He got contemplative for a moment and then said that he had forgotten that that used to happen in Afghanistan (where he was from), but it doesn’t happen in Germany.
Just putting oil in a few dozen times won’t shatter it. A few hundred cooling cycles might, but you change jars by then.
It won’t necessarily shatter it, but it absolutely can. I’ve done it with a jar I had washed the original product out of shortly beforehand. Just because it’s never happened to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
I guess it depends on the temperature of the oil, I pour when its still liquid, but less than boiling.
I pour when it’s hot to the touch, but not unpleasant, so probably around 50-60 C
And it still shattered?
Yep, I was PISSED. I can’t even eat pork and was just being a good houseguest the morning after a party, and then suddenly had to clean up a bunch of shattered glass and pork fat in someone else’s kitchen.
Canning jars are made to withstand temperature changes though.
Weird. I mean tomato sauce jars are too, at least once. Was it a pickle or jam jar? Ive had those break just placing them on the counter.
They all are, once, unless people are selling unsealed jarred goods. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it would have been something I used when cooking breakfast, so maybe salsa.
I’m not blowing smoke here … that’s great writing. It works well if you imagine voice growing frantic and speaking faster as it goes.
Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.
ZorsithIt isn’t put in the jar to throw away, its put in the jar to cook more food with.
And use for tortillas and savory pie crust.
When my grandma had “too much” of it she would mix it with seeds and put it out for the woodpeckers in winter
Bacon grease chocolate chip cookies…
I shit you not.
Fuck. It’s 2am and I’m so high. Why did I have to read this‽
cRazi_manFor maximum enjoyment, drink it directly from the jar. Preferably while warm.
How long does bacon grease last? How can I tell if it went bad? Does it last longer in the fridge?
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
They make ones with a mesh filter you pour it through
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Gradually_AdjustingFake news, I’ve never had bacon grease last that long. That’s why I’m not thin.
You can freeze it!
Thank you for the info.
BossDjI can't tell if people here are pouring their grease down the drain.
The answer is don't. "It will be fine" for the person who told you that it will be fine, but it will absolutely fail for you. You know that by now. Also that guy is lying and already had to snake his drain but won't tell you that.
Idk I’ve never had any issues.