Why not fat from fowl?
Kinda like “not wearing a seat belt” did. 
Grease & lye = soap.
Drain unclogger is lye
If you’ve even seen the result of someone using drain unclogger on a grease clog, you will never pour grease down the drain again.
Ashamed to admit it, but I dump mine down the sink as well. My reasoning is that I switch apartments about every year, so it is unlikely I’ll be the one to have to deal with any clogs. I put it in the trash once, but the resulting hole burned into the bottom of my trash can encouraged me to not do that again.
I know, I’m a terrible person.
Is flushing it down the toilet just as bad as pouring it down the sink? I have to assume the answer is yes.
Yes. Our news channel had a story the other day about how they’re trying to encourage people citywide to quit pouring grease and oil down the drains because of the huge clogs that develop in the mains and how expensive it is to ever make them right again.
Here’s an excerpt…
*"…city to spend $63,600 on so-called “fat trapper bags.”
That’s 30,000 foil-lined 4-inch by 7-inch bags, along with 15,000 bag holders, that the city wants to distribute to residents as part of its “Corral the Grease” program.
They’re hoping residents will pour used cooking grease into these bags and then throw them into the garbage instead of pouring fat down the drain, where it clogs up public pipes.
City officials said then they spend millions of dollars each year clearing pipes of blockages, most of which are caused by grease traps that aren’t cleaned and cooking fat residents pour down the drain."*
Grease being poured down the drains is the reason why people like me who live in a condo get solicitations from our insurance company for “sewer and drain coverage”. When you’re at the mercy of idiots, it pays to fork out the $17 a year.
I have heard that too but since I have dumped the grease down the drain for 20 years with never a problem, I think I am safe.
The trick is to pour the dishwashing liquid in with the hot water and pour it down while continously running the hot water while doing the rest of the dishes to make sure the grease is out of the house.
Oh and I have a septic tank so it effects no one else.
Well, I’m converted. I didn’t realize it could cause clogs farther down the line. I don’t have enough grease to warrant saving it in something, but I’ll paper towel it out and toss it. Or put it on the dog food, if it’s grease from meat.
Of course, when you keep the grease for cooking other dishes, then the grease ends up clogging your arteries instead of the drains.
Not that I’m a saint myself - just used bacon grease to sautee onions for Sunday morning breakfast, and it was great. But the best thing all around is to save it in a jar, and when you’re feeling ready to fry something, throw the jar away and have a salad instead.
My vet says giving fat to dogs is usually not a good idea. For many dogs, it gives them gas or worse gastric troubles.
Tossing it in flowerbeds or compost piles is useless. It doesn’t break down to anything plants need. Something will eat it, sure. Rats, 'possums, maggots, and mold; yeah, not the sort of wildlife you hoped would come around.
On the other hand, if I have chicken fat or pork fat from slow-cooking, I scoop it into a plastic bag in the freezer. You can’t beat it for sautéing vegetables. Lagasse is right. Pork fat rules.
Actually, the worst thing you can do is to pour the hot grease directly onto your eyeballs. Second worst is injecting it into your aorta. Pouring it into the drain is third worst.
No, no. The second worst is using it as a sexual lubricant/birth control. Don’t ask.
Back in college I went to a friend’s house for dinner. An iron skillet sat on the stove filled with congealed fat. It obviously just sat there when it wasn’t being used. Anyway, she flicked on the burner, sliced up some potatoes and threw them in when the grease was good and hot.
Being completely squicked out by the whole thing, I demurred on the french fries. But, boy they smelled good.
How about pouring it into a paper cup, then burning on an open grill?
I either pour it into a jar and throw it out, or use a paper towel to remove it.
We have rental houses, and people pouring grease down the drain costs us big bucks every year. Usually in the winter months, when the grease gets good and cold before it gets very far down the sewer line. Right around Thanksgiving and Christmas, the calls for sewer line backup help come pouring in. One family poured so much grease down their drains that we had to have their sewer line routered out every 3-4 months for the year or so that they lived there.
Please, please don’t pour grease down the drain! And if you have grease clog, Annie Xmas is right about the turning-into-soap thing. Best to just avoid the grease clog in the first place. 
I’d make suet from it, but we have so many stray cats around here, I might just be luring the birdies to their deaths.
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I don’t think it’s that bad as it has a chance to solidify before it gets into the pipes since it’s in cold water and the pipes are much larger.
I don’t buy that, it’s the way we have been eating for centuries. What keeps your arteries clogged is our seditary lifestyle, a move away from fats and towards carbs (mostly refined ones at that) & the use of transfats IMHO.
Does dish soap make any difference? I very rarely cook anything that leaves grease behind, but when I do have a pan with a tablespoon or two of grease in it, I have been known to just wash it with lots and lots of soap. If the grease is completely emulsified in lots of water, is shouldn’t be much of a pipe problem, right? Right?
I have use that method, sometimes dissolving it into cold water, or at least cool water with dish soap in hopes it will stay dissolved. I would think it helps.
Also I suspect, but do not know, that if one uses a dishwasher that would also help out maintaining the pipes as lots of very hot water plus abrasive detergents are shot down the drain.
This does NOT work. If you have a grill, you may notice that it has a grease trap in it. Grease doesn’t really go away - it either liquifies and drains away, or it burns and turns into the stuff you have to scrape off the grill. Either way, you have to find a way to get rid of it.
Dude, please don’t go around saying that kind of stuff. People are having a hard enough time figuring out how to stay skinny these days without having to parse through all the conflicting info.
For the record, I’m a big believer in low carb dieting myself. But the bottom line is, the more calories you eat the more overweight you get. Low carb diets work because carbs kick your appetite into high gear and make you hungry all the time. When you go low carb, you’re not as hungry, and therefore you snack less and end up eating less calories.
That grease is jammed with calories. And see how it turns from liquid into a solid when you leave it alone for a while? It does the same thing once you put it into your bloodstream. It’s bad stuff and you should minimize the amount you ingest.
I say that fully acknowledging that I start out every Saturday morning with a big ol’ whopping pile of bacon, and onions sauteed in the grease when I have an onion. Having it once a week is a lot different from saving it up and using it all the time, though.
- Leviosaurus, who lost over 100 pounds on a low carb diet, and has kept it off for two years thankyouverymuch.
On Edit: I should add that I agree with about 90% of what you’re saying - just don’t agree that grease is harmless 
The problem is, it’s not going to stay in emulsion. The grease will precipitate out, eventually. For Foxy40 it is a short trip to her septic tank - so she’s dodged the bullet. For me, the wastewater treatment plant is over 20 miles downstream. My grease is not going to stay in suspension for 20 miles through the sewer main, even in Mississippi in July.
For example, from the City of Bruswick, GA: (complete with cute Grease Goblin)
(my bolding)