My husband has an odd habit of taking grease (e.g. from cooking a burger), and tossing it into the rose bushes outside. He doesn’t want to clog the drains, you know. My beagle appreciates it except for the thorns.
Me? I think he’s odd. Everyone knows the proper way to dispense with grease is to pour it in an old mayonnaise jar and refrigerate it until it’s full. Then you toss into the trash.
So, what do YOU do with old grease?
My husband does something with it and gives it to birds. It’s like magic!
I only save bacon grease. I use it to season my cast-iron pans.
I’d use it for gravy or biscuits, but I don’t eat them often enough and if I were to make some I’d use fresh grease.
Yes, but what do you do with it if you don’t save it?
I do what my mom did - use paper towels to soak it all up, then throw the paper towels away in the trash. I’m not sure why she did this, but it’s a habit I picked up.
I haven’t filled the container yet.
I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it.
I just pour it down the drain and run hot water for a few minutes.
My mom pours it into a container that sits on the stove for future use.
I pour it down the drain or into the trash.
This is probably the worst thing you can do. The hot water will melt the grease, and it flows down into the cold pipes. At some point downstream, it is safe to assume that the temp of the pipe will be below the point where the grease solidifies. You will then have a grease clog way down in the pipes.
Me? I keep an old coffee can to pour the grease into. When full it goes in the trash.
I have a few old veggie tins saved under the sink. When I have grease, I pour it in, let it cool and throw it in the garbage.
Bacon grease goes in the fridge for future egg fryings. Duck fat goes in the freezer for future potato frying. Leftover oil from when I make calamari and burn the oil in between batches (shakes fist!!!) goes into a jar and in the trash. Fortunately I don’t deep fry enough to have to worry about volume disposals that often.
Funnel into a 20 oz. soda bottle and pitch in the trash.
Agreed. This is a very poor choice. Old spaghetti sauce bottles or empty cans work best for me. Dumping it on the ground will attract vermin and other pests.
I give it to our dogs, 2 very large and active outside dogs, after I’m through with it. Beef or pork or chicken dripping is used to make gravy, or is added to stock. The fat skimmed from stock is then fed to the dogs or chucked in the garbage. Lamb fat goes directly to the dogs.
Seasoning cast iron pans with bacon grease is a poor idea. It is salty and contains many ingredients other than pure fat. The best fat for seasoning cast iron is canola (rapeseed) or corn or safflower or sunflower oil.
Cast iron pans should only need seasoning once, anyway, unless some disaster requires you to scour them down to the bare metal.
Never down the sink! I keep a lidded coffee can in the freezer and pour all the grease in it. When it’s full, it goes out in the trash and I start a new can.
It’s not my only fat can. 
I do the hot water/down the drain thing too. No clogs yet, but I don’t have that much grease.
I like the idea of saving bacon fat for future egg frying, but it seems we always have bacon with eggs anyway.
I used to keep it in a container (usually a wide necked jar) and throw it in the rubbish every few months.
Then the state government introduced an environmental levy to clean up the beaches including the problems caused by people pouring oils down the drain. Since I don’t live near the beach, to get my money’s worth from the levy, I started pouring it all down the drain.
No just kidding, I still use the jar and not just for grease for any oil more than what you could wipe up with a paper towel.
Not to pick on you specifically, but this is not a good excuse.
One household’s grease combined with every other household’s grease in the system makes for huge greaseballs in the sewer mains. It may not seem like much that one person pours down there, but it will build up. Refraining from disposing of grease down the drain saves costs for everyone on the system.
Us, we pour it on our doggies’ dry food, if it’s very much. Otherwise I use HazelNutCoffee’s method.
I don’t have any grease very often, but I pour it into an empty can, refrigerate it till it’s solid, and then throw it out.
Make soap out of it.
(Okay, I only did this once, but it turned out amazing.)