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Disposing Of Out Of Date Cooking Oils

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silvertaff | 18:02 Tue 28th Jun 2016 | Food & Drink
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Does anyone know an eco-friendly way of disposing of out of date bottles of cooking oils? Pouring them down the sink doesn't feel like it would be the right thing to do.
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Do not tip it down the sick!

The local tips take cooking oils.
Just pour it back into a old plastic oil bottle from ,say, a deep fat fryer and take it down the dump. No drains ,toilet or kitchen sink for discarded oil. You will invite blockages. It becomes like a waxy emulsion.
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many thanks, ummmm and retrocop.
that's what I do ummmm...
same with old sump oil from cars
I put it into empty milk cartons.
Why do you have bottles of used cooking oil, retrocop and ummmm, what's it been used for?
I don't, Eth, it's old cooking oil to be disposed of. It's what the deep fat fryer gets emptied into.
or juice/milk plastic doodahs ^
Oh right. What do you cook in your deep fat fryer?
I make my own chips which I cook in the oven and only use a tablespoon of oil, can't think of anything else I'd cook in it, mond you, I don't have a houseful of hungry men to feed these days ;)
I once had a deep fat fryer and it was such a faff to keep clean binned it.
Hardly anything to be honest. It usually comes out when I've seen a recipe on a cooking programme.

Someone gave me a tip of here on how to clean them. Put a dishwasher tablet in and fill with water and let it simmer on low. Works a wonders. Cleans the baskets too.
good tip ummmm..ta x
^^ Biological washing powder ( the type you wash clothes in) works as well .
Make a strongish solution of powder and water and let it simmer for an hour or so, works for burnt on pans as well.
I think my local chippy uses it.

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