Why You Should Always Keep an Empty Vegetable Oil Bottle Under the Sink
It is unacceptable to drain any cooking oil – liquid or solid – down the drain. This can lead not only to personal problems with the plumbing, but also to clog the entire area and – in extreme cases – to basements filled with sewage .
A lot of vegetable oil, even cheap vegetable oil, can be filtered, refined and stored for later use, but I don’t always feel like doing all of this, especially if I’m working with canola oil sold at the grocery store. …
To get rid of oil that you don’t want to cleanse, all you have to do is pour it into a container and then throw that container in the trash (or take it to an oil recycling program ), but I rarely have extra disposable containers. – for example, milk cartons or coffee cans are just lying around.
Do you know what makes a waste oil container the best? The bottle that previously contained the specified oil. Unlike milk cartons, cheap vegetable oil cartons are durable and airtight, and (unlike coffee cans) they also don’t need to be cleaned and reused anywhere in the house (they are too greasy).
I keep my trash oil bottle under the sink, next to the trash can. Thanks to years of spills in various labs, I personally have no problem pouring grease straight from the pot into the bottle, but you can put a cheap plastic funnel in there if you need to protect yourself from dirty spills. Once my cooking oil has cooled to the point where it won’t cause any injury if I spill it on my skin, I bottle it, seal it, and put it back in place until I need to throw the oils away again.
I have found that the timing of using an empty vegetable oil bottle works exceptionally well. I filter and store bacon and lard fat, so only cheap liquid oils usually go into the bottle; I usually fill my trash bottle the same way I run out of fresh oil, so there is rarely a moment in my disposal system when I don’t have an empty container. It’s an elegant system – or as elegant as oil disposal.