Waste disposal of fat

I pour it into a bowl or mug and let it go solid, then scrape it into the food recycling bin. If it's still a bit oily and not solid I mix it with any other food waste in the food recycling. Or I mix it up with bird seed and scraps and put it on the bird table.

I don't put it down the sink - I saw on the tv that huge revolting ball of solid fat mixed up with wet wipes etc which was blocking the sewers. The workmen had to go down there to get rid of it. Yuck!

I'd be a bit wary of putting it in the compost bin in case it attracted rats. Making bird feeders is a good idea.

I use it to make the gravy, delicious. Since I saw a tv programme about fat balls in the drains, I have put any left over fat into the compost recycling bin.

That's 'you're' - see how upset I was?

Pouring it down the sink or throwing it away - your chucking away FLAVOUR, which is a cardinal sin in any kitchen!

OK, some fat disposal is always going to be necessary, but it's a shame!

I always cover any fat left in a saucepan/frying pan/whatever with a couple of sheets of kitchen roll of a decent thickness. Then leave it a while. The kitchen roll absorbs the oil/fat which can then be thrown in the kitchen waste bin/composting bin.
If there is a large quantity of oil or fat you might need to do it again.

Our local Council collects all our food waste separately and then it goes to an anaerobic digester that produces methane that is fed into the gas mains. The material left over is sold to farmers as a fertiliser.

All my vegetable waste goes onto my compost heater, but waste fat is left to solidify and then scraped into the food waste bag.

We have regular bonfires so no probs. DH is always looking around for things to help it burn.

Don't put it down the sink - it will either solidify and block the drain, or form "fatbergs" in the sewers.
The only fat we get is from chickens and I re-use it for various things.
Occasionally we have chips and I use oil in the deep fryer. Our waste disposal place take used cooking oil, not sure what they do with it.

Save beef dripping to put on toast.
Other kinds I put into the fridge in a container to solidify then scrape into the bin.
If there's a small amount I just wipe the pan with kitchen paper then put that in the bin.

Surely to goodness we don't need Waitrose or anyone else to tell us not to put fat down the sink [grumpy old woman emoticon]

Oh no; you've just got me thinking of the dripping cake I used to eat when I was little. Want some now....

Make it into fat balls for the birds. You can make nice little bell-looking things by threading through a yoghourt pot with a thick piece of string, set it on a plate and pour in the melted fat, you can add seeds and things if you like. I use chicken feed, mould it around a piece of string and hang it from the pergola where I can watch while doing the washing-up.

Could freeze it then use it to make food for the birds when the weather gets bad. Unless it's salty, of course.

I put it on the compost heap; but we don't eat much meat, so it doesn't happen very often.