Waste disposal of fat

Fatberg!

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/london-sewer-cleaners-fatberg-fightback-095936024.html?vp=1

I'm very careful about what I put down the drain, I was told about this years ago. I think sewer workers are unsung heros.

Yes, I saw that granjura Yuck

But if it is mixed with fat from, say, bacon it would go semi-solid, wouldn't it?

I am so glad it washes away, I will drink a glass of water after eating my potatoes roasted in rapeseed oil then there won't be so many calories to go on my hips or tummy!

Turkey fat goes semi solid. Rapeseed oil doesn't. It washes away.

Remember that documentary about 'FAT MOUNTAINS' in London drains- it was sooo disgusting and scary. Could not use any wipes or 'wet' WC paper or pour any fat down drain since.

I save the plastic reseal bags from dishwasher tablets and pour the fat into them and place in the bin.

A friend once blocked the drain at her kitchen sink by pouring the fat from the turkey down it. On Christmas Day, of course. It was snowing outside - the drain was very cold. It cost an arm and a leg to get someone to turn up to unblock it, and Christmas dinner was very late.

Green cones: www.greatgreensystems.com Not cheap, but they last for ever and are the answer to what to do with meat and fish, cooked or uncooked, if you have room in your garden and your council doesn't collect food waste.

Don't think oil is meant to go down the drain either, jingl. I put fat or oil in the green cone (an aerobic waste food digester which is partly buried so that rats can't smell it) or in winter, wipe it off dishes with kitchen roll (or used paper napkins which I keep when we eat out as they just get thrown away and they can be very useful as hankies as well, if you have a cold and even man-sized tissues are not enough) before I wash them (this is back to dishes now, not napkins; keep up at the back) and then put them in the fire.

I used to put it in the compost bin. Too lazy to trot out there with it now. It's rapeseed oil. It doesn't solidify.

Oil goes down the sink. Followed by washing up water. No problem.

Cool and mix with oats and sun-flower seeds to the birds- no rats or squirrels around here, so that is fine.

Didn't some bright spark state that you're never more than 10 foot from a rat ......... Nothing to do with getting rid of fat but does anyone else have slow worms and grass snakes in their compost bin?
No room for any rats I guess!

I put solid fat in the food waste bin, oil gets tipped into an empty milk carton, and then thrown in the bin.

We have foxes and squirrels Iam but no sign of rats at all and long may it continue.

We did however have a rat in our garden years ago. DDs, when they were toddlers, told us there was a 'big' mouse behind their chute. It turned out they were nesting in a neighbour's wood pile . DH killed it but I won't go into details. More

We have had rats earlier this year. I laid down poison in sachets and the rats enjoyed it so much they climbed the shelves to where the packet was stored, knocked it onto the floor and then gobbled up the contents.

Haven't seen any rats since then.

Squirrels are amazingly clever little blighters - I've had many hours of entertainment from them!

annodomini, I suspect squirrels, like rats, could take over the world if we aren't vigilant. The doodle dogs have just had a mad moment, when a squirrel trotted over to the bird hangers - one dog now chilling out, younger dog sitting by the window, 150% vigilant in case it returns.

Agus - I had to have the rat man out some years ago, after seeing one in the garden. Evidently, the drains had overflowed during storms and the rats were seeking alternative accommodation. He inspected my chicken/rat prevention efforts, and said all was good. The only thing he queried was the ivy tumbling around the dreaded leylandi in a neighbour's garden that adjoins ours. He said the ivy would make perfect rat runs. I am not good with rodents

I mix it with a melted block of lard to make yogurt pot bird feeders too, then hang them in amongst the ivy to stop squirrels getting at them.

No squirrels here, thankfully. My cousin has big squirrel problems. I almost think I prefer rats in my roof to her squirrels.

Chickens are carnivorous when they get the chance. My DS1 reported the relish with which his birds tore apart and consumed a mouse that was daft enough to get into the chicken run. [yuk emoticon]
Whenever I think I have hung the fat balls where the squirrels can't get at them, they manage to work out a way to outwit me. I have come to the conclusion that squirrels are brighter than I am.

Yes, I do have to hang the fat balls where nothing but birds can get at them. I would never put the fat on my compost heaps. Next door has chickens, and we will again at some point soon, so the last thing I want to do is encourage them. I do NOT give the fat to my chickens! It seems a bit too carnivorous.

ruby - the compost bin is enclosed, rats can't get in. Rats do love those hanging fat balls we put out for the birds though. I no longer have hens in the garden, but the anti rat campaign continues, and I bring in the big feeders at dusk

My mother always saved the fat from the roast to use later for potatoes or whatever.

If it's only a little bit I put it in the dog's bowl - does wonders for his shiny coat and he thinks it's very tasty

Years ago I always had a bowl of fat in the fridge which used to get added to over the weeks, occasionally being cleaned by mixing it with boiling water and letting it harden again so that I could remove the "bits" in the bottom. Never did any of us any harm but these days you don't seem to need to add fat to anything apart from roast potatoes perhaps