Will it flush? (Need answer fast!)

Factual Questions
1

We’re going through a kitchen renovation. Yes, it’s a massive pain in the ass, thanks for asking. We’re very limited on the meals that we can cook (lots of grilling, lots of cold cuts). I have a side burner on my grill, which has been really nice - but it’s not a 5 burner gas stove, ya know?

Anyway, we also do some crock pot meals. My wife made a really nice pot roast today, which we’ve never had luck with before. Well, it’s now clean-up time. I’ve pulled out all the chunks of fat, potatoes, onions, etc. The remaining broth is thinnish, but it’s still a little fatty. Can I just flush this down the toilet? It’s probably about 2.5 cups of liquid. I’m not going to send it down the utility sink that’s been functioning as our dishwashing station, because I don’t trust the fat with the elbow pipe under the sink. A toilet is a pretty straight shot to the sewer line.

I’m going to do the other dishes first, and hope I have a solid answer when I return!

2

No reason to, it will keep the meat from going dry. Use it.

Or trash it, or gopher hole it, etc.

Don’t flush fats.

3

Don’t. It may be a straight shot down, but somewhere at the bottom there’s a bend, a twist, or a curve. Your house does not have a grease trap.

4

It sounds like a great meat stock to me. You should probably ask that this thread gets moved to Cafe Society for some recipe ideas

In the meantime, refrigerate it.

5

This is probably too late, but what the hell.

What I’ve done in a similar situation is stick it in the fridge (I assume you still have something in the nature of a cold-keeper) and when the fat hardens scoop it out and throw it in the trash. Or feed it to the dogs (I have big dogs, that little wouldn’t harm them).

6

Disposed of.

For the record, the pot roast was eaten - there wasn’t anything to keep except a couple of sad potatoes.

7

As per The Perfect Master’s answer to my question in the Fatberg Apocalypse column, dumping fats down the drain is a major problem in many places.

I.e., don’t do it.

8

“Will it flush?”

Netflix’s next hit series after “Is it cake?”

9

I like to take material like what your describing and let it cool. Then it goes into a number of small plastic containers. These I refrigerate and gradually give it to my dogs with their meals. If I have 2 cups total, that would be 1/4 cup each meal divided among three dogs.

10

I was thinking a YouTube series as a sequel to those “Will it Blend?” videos.

11

Yep, cool it down and collect the congealed fat. At that point, the broth can go down the drain.

12

It’s been done.

13

Speaking of, part of this Reno involves expanding a bathroom, so we were shopping for toilets. American Standard has a toilet that they tout that “it was engineered to prevent clogs - flushes a bucket of golf balls in a single flush”.

I don’t know why this is the standard toilets should be judged by, but it’s exactly on the mark. I want more marketing like this.

14

For the record, what would you do with this stuff if you were in a kitchen? Do you usually throw it down the sink? I wouldn’t advise putting it down the sink but if you do put it down the sink why do you trust your little sink drain more than the big toilet drain?

I’m with everyone else who says put it in the fridge. My mom has always done this. She keeps a cache of jars under the sink in which to place fatty juices after cooking, so she can put them in the fridge and toss out on trash day.

15

Sounds like that once refrigerated, and the fat is gone, it would be a really good start to a beef barley soup.

16

Easier to pour it into an old ice cube tray and put into the refrigerator or freezer. Than each day, pop out one cube to add to the dog’s food dish.

17

If you find yourself potentially needing this capability, I’m sure your doctor can prescribe a safe and effective laxative as an alternative.