How to Dispose of Cooking Oil and/or Grease

Pouring any kind of cooking oil or grease down your drain can be hazardous to your pipes. Naturally it's difficult to keep some from going down the drain but on the whole it's best to dispose of any used cooking grease and oil with some simple methods.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• old can
• glass bottle
• zip lock bag
• paper towels

1. If you have a frying pan of grease (say from burgers or bacon) you can dispose of it two different ways.
   
   The first way is to let the frying pan sit until the grease hardens and then you can simply wipe it out with paper towels and then throw the paper towels in the garbage can.
   
   The second way is to pour the grease into an old can (say from vegetables or tomato sauce)and then let it harden. Simply throw the can away once the grease has hardened.

2. If you have frying oil (such as vegetable oil)and just finished a batch of french fries the best way to dispose of the oil is to first let it cool. Then place it in a clean glass bottle and save it for the next time you are frying. If it's dirty and ready to be disposed of then just toss the glass bottle in the trash.

3. Another easy way to dispose of either hardened grease or cooking oil is to use zip lock bags. Make sure the oil is totally cool otherwise it will tear the bag and you will have oil all over the place. But using a zip lock bag is easy to just zip closed and throw away. There's very little chance the oil will spill out of the bag.

Tips & Warnings

• Letting grease harden in a frying pan and then wiping it out with paper towels is one of the easiest ways to dispose of grease.
• Never pour oil or grease down your kitchen sink drain (or any drain for that matter)
• Draining the oil off a can of tuna into your kitchen sink can be hazardous to your drain (if you do this make sure to run extremely hot water right after)

[kristara]

on 8/23/2009 Great way to get rid of old oil and grease from cooking 5*

[believeinfamily]

on 8/23/2009 Great tips to dispose of cooking oil and grease. It's great to fry things up, but you don't always know what to do after the cooking is done. 5*

[konakai]

on 8/22/2009 Great ways to get rid of Cooking Oil and Grease. 5*****

[omghow]

on 8/21/2009 Thanks for the suggestion on how to dispose of cooking oils and grease.

[mommyhen42]

on 8/21/2009 Great ways to dispose of cooking oil and grease. Here we get California Pepper trees springing up all over the place, they are totally hard to kill but seem to love rooting right next to the fence, so I use the cooking oil to kill these trees but it takes a lot to accomplish the dirty deed. But keep in mind that nothing else will grow there for quite a while