What Should We Do With Used Vegetable Oil?
It's not good for the kitchen pipes to just put it down the drain. So then my 'love to compost' self thinks...'Ah! We'll poor it into the ground!' Hubby is not only not keen on composting, he's not keen on that idea either!
So then he says just leave on the kitchen counter in the coffee containers. I say, 'Uck!' It seems yucky, totally unsafe, and looks quite ugly, too.
For now, I've told him when he goes shopping next, to buy me a nicer-looking container for the counter, kind of in the same vein as those pasta/spaghetti counter top holders. Only not see-through and with a screw-top lid, so you can't see the stuff (since it has crumbs in it) and so bacteria will have less of a chance to grow, if, in fact, bacteria grows in vegetable oil. Which I assume it must, right? Hmm...
So what do YOU do with your vegetable oil? Do neighborhoods need to have a vegetable oil drop-off day, just like there are oil (from the car) drop off days? ;)
The question at hand...
Do u reuse veg. oil? If so, how do u store it? If not, how/where do u dispose of it?
I say...
What others are saying...
The Cans on My Counter
This is our situation now. I am so not liking this.
Vegetable oil
Vegetable fats and oils are lipid materials derived from plants. Physically, oils are liquid at room temperature, and fats are solid. Chemically, both fats and oils are composed of triglycerides, as contrasted with waxes which lack glycerin in their structure. Although many different parts of plants may yield oil,Compare, for examp-[-[le, the list of raw materials from which essential oils are extracted. in commercial practice, oil is extracted primarily from seeds.
The melting temperature distinction between oils and fats is imprecise, since definitions of room temperature vary, and typically natural oils have a melting range instead of a single melting point.
Vegetable fats and oils may be edible or inedible. Examples of inedible vegetable fats and oils include processed linseed oil, tung oil, and castor oil used in lubricants, paints, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial purposes. Although thought of as esters of glycerin and a varying blend of fatty acids, fats and oils also typically contain free fatty acids, monoglycerides, and diglycerides.
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- kiwisoutback kiwisoutback May 17, 2009 @ 10:27 pm
- That's a good question that I don't know the answer to. I usually scoop it up if it's left in a frying pan (I usually use olive oil) along with the food bits and just throw them away. Good question, I hope someone can answer it.
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- AppalachianCountry AppalachianCountry Apr 28, 2009 @ 10:12 am
- Nice lens. We store it and use it for squeaky things later.
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- rydigga rydigga Jan 18, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
- Hi Lisa Marie Mary, Very interesting lens, thanks for sharing. I personally recycle it, just put it in a jar and then our for the birds as suet.
Ryan
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- Graceonline Graceonline Jan 18, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
- Good question! Nicely done, and according to eHow, it can be composted, which is news to me. Thought you had to keep that stuff out of the compost. Apparently you need to assure you have lots of earthworms in the mix.
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- Lisa-Marie-Mary Lisa-Marie-Mary Jan 17, 2009 @ 5:54 pm
- Thank you, Kathy! :)
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