What to do with household quantities of used cooking oil?

yeah i got a suggestion, skip the deep fryer and use a pressure cooker instead!

you can also strain it with coffee filters and keep re-using it too.

thats what we do at home when we make french fries

why do you doubt that your city collection agency won't recycle it?

 

put an ad on craigslist- someone who runs a car on wvo might take it.

 

I was going to say "Ship it to Galaxee".

 

Are there any small space heaters that you could use to heat your home with the used oil?

 

someone on craigs list in richmond, va wants it - and will pay .25 a gallon

 

we have a place at dump call "Hazo House" they take paint, oil, tranny fluid, etc... for free...check with your local dump, transfer station or what have you.

 

A biodiesel coop might take it too. They might even give you a container to take home to store it up. Then you could ring them when it's full and they could come pick it up. Or if they're close by I'm sure they gladly take small quantities since they don't have to exert themselves to get it. Whatever I'm sure there will be plenty of takers.

 

they have the collection bin for used motor oil and cooking oil, it still gets recycled.
majority of used motor oil is run through a giant filter, and resold!!!!

your opinions and predispositions are getting in the way i think

maybe you need more research and see what happens after its placed in the barrel

maybe you can pour it in a plastic container and write 'used cooking oil' on the plastic container
and leave it out on the curb on garbage day


the pressure cooker was a legitmate suggestion.

why?

because

#1 it will taste a lot better (kfc uses them)

#2 pressure cookers requires less cooking oil then deep fryers!!!!

#3 cooks faster

rumorville reports that in reality, kentucky fried chicken is actaully just flour, pepper, chicken,MSG, shortning/oil
in a pressure cooker, and their '12 herbs and spices' is not a current recipe

 

what to do with household quanties of used cooking oil part ][

pressure cookers will have to be rated to actally fry chicken in, sigh

pressure cookers only use 1/2 cup of oil compared to deep frying.

new suggestions
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after filtering the oil and reusing it a couple times, give it to a dog. pour little bits
on their dog food. they will love it.

move away from chesterfield to get curbside pick up of used motor oil and used cooking oil (sarcastic)

save up a gallon or so of it, find a place that told you 'were not intrested in household quantiies' and just show up with it

save up a gallon or so of it, make sure to write on the container 'used cooking oil' go to restaurants late at night when no one is
looking and put it near their used cooking oil bin, haha

find a friend or relative that works at a restaurant and have him sneak it in.


i think the reasons they told you were not interested in household quantities is because
1) they not interested in coming over to pick up a small quantity
2) likely that this is a 'service' and the restaurants actually pay for someone to come out and pick it up

 

So how's your cholesterol now?

And don't feed it to a dog, that sounds terrible. It'll get cancer

 

you will get cancer too, cause its in the chicken

 

i would be very careful with this diet
i'm not gonna spout stuff i don't really know much about,
but Atkins Facts - Atkins "Nightmare" Diet may be a good place to look.

best is to really ask your physician or a dietitian

 

yeah i think all the refining that pertains to used cooking oil is either is used as fuel or they make soap out of it. major cities collect cooking oil to get it out of the drains, sewers, and worse of all storm drains. they spend millions of dollars clearing out all the grease that goes down peoples dishwashers and don't need any more, by pouring it down the drain. thank you, heh

cooking oil can pollute drinking water just as well as motor oil.

if you do find someone in your area that will take it and use it as a fuel, it will be more valueable to them, or any of the cooking oil
recyclers if you make sure to remove all the bits of food out of it first. you can do this with a strainer with a coffee filter or paper towel
inside the strainer. warm/hot oil will filter faster then cold oil.


maybe you can talk to your city/county goverment who signed the waste management contract about curbisde pick up of these materials. maybe when the contract goes for renewal, they will offer curbside pick up. that would motivate more people to dispose of hazards materials in a friendly way, instead of down the drain, like most residential cooking oil goes

so many people were taking cooking oil from restaurants for free of charge to use as biodiesel, that the industry complained, and now its supposivlely illegal to haul away a restaurants cooking oil without a permit in calfornia!