how do you dispose of semi-fluid food waste?

I don't know, I give things like that to the dog.

I don't see any harm in putting it down the toilet as it's biodegradable, not like wet wipes and other things people put down the toilet (and I do know that they shouldn't).

If the chorus of disapproval is too great I would strain off any liquid, wrap the rest in newspaper and put it in the dustbin
Or you could dig a hole in the garden and bury it...

Yes, it could block the toilet. My leftovers go into the small green waste bags which in turn goes into the large brown food waste bin…. Which is then placed outside once a week for the dustman.
Your Council probably has other ways and means. Check with your neighbours -

I put it in the biodegradable bags our council provides for food waste. Into the green bin it goes

I strain the liqued down the sink with hot water and washing up liqued and put the solids in food waste bin.

I sieve it and empty the sieve into the bin

I put it in the green wheelie bin we have for garden and food waste.

I mix it with cooked brown rice and give it to the chickens.

I drain off the gravy and pour it away down the sink with the tap running. I put the sold pieces into newspaper in the bin. I had been making the mistake of putting the oil from tuna down the sink - outside drain is a horrible mess. I now pour it onto a piece of kitchen towel and bin it.

I wouldn't put it down the toilet, just in case, nothing worse than an overflowing toilet.

My council would not allow us to do that MawtheMerrier, we can’t put food in the garden waste bin because it’s shredded and used as compost so no meat is allowed.
I put food in a sieve and run water on it to get the liquid out, then put it in the food waste bin. We aren’t allowed to put any food waste in the general waste bin either, it’s all very strict on recycling here.

I have to say that, considering the size of some things that go down the toilet legitimately I really can't see how a few bits of meat and veg are going to block it...

Have you ever blocked your toilet doing this, Fennel?

I’d freeze it, and then just put it in the food waste bin the night before collection. I often freeze anything smelly or that will attract flies in warmer weather (e.g. a chicken carcass after I’ve used it for stock) and put it in the bin the night before. I use the little compostable bags.

Even if you don’t have a food waste collection, could you freeze it and put it in whatever bin the night before?

I sieve it over the sink and put the solid parts in the food bin.

P.S I wouldn't put any oil or fat down the toilet or the drain (as it all ends up in the same place) ; that's what causes fatbergs.

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My council would not allow us to do that MawtheMerrier, we can’t put food in the garden waste bin because it’s shredded and used as compost so no meat is allowed.
I put food in a sieve and run water on it to get the liquid out, then put it in the food waste bin. We aren’t allowed to put any food waste in the general waste bin either, it’s all very strict on recycling here.

Ours goes through an anaerobic digester (I think that is the term)
It’s a brilliant system and our council were one of the first authorities to introduce the system.

Might it worsen the rat situation in the sewers if meat was available? Sorry, it doesn’t bear thinking about I know.

Well I'm a bit confounded.
When I consider the solid waste that toilets are designed to deal with, I can't think that a bit of mince is going to cause much of a problem..... but anyway, moving swiftly on.

We solved the problem of bad bin smells from small amounts of leftover (raw) cat food by keeping a bag-lined tub in the freezer to scrape her leftovers into. We then put the frozen waste into the dustbin on the day the bin men come.

Ah Witzend you beat me to it!

That sounds very fancy MawtheMerrier I’d be in favour of anything that cuts the time taken to recycle, we have 6 different bins at the moment.

I don’t know if this is legible but it shows our clear plastic sacks for tin cans, rigid plastic etc, blue boxes for bottles, green wheelie bins as described before , black bin bags for general waste and smaller bags for batteries.

I forgot to say the clear ( sometimes pink tinted) sacks are also for paper and cardboard if it is small enough to fit. Otherwise cardboard boxes etc have to be taken to the dump.

That’s very clear. We’ve got plastic boxes for paper and cardboard, for bottles and cans, and for metals and hard plastics, a food waste bin, a black wheelie bin for non recyclables, and a garden waste bin. It takes ages to sort it all out, and I don’t know how people with limited space manage because the three plastic boxes take up a lot of space, and don’t stack. Your pink sacks sound a lot easier.

No wonder there are fatbergs in our drains! What a waste of hot water, too. I don’t throw away much prepared food but what there is goes into the food waste bin. If we have any left-over bread it’s used to line the base of the bin, which absorbs any liquids.

We have food compost caddies, supplied by the LA, compostable bags go in and they are collected from our larger food waste bin each week, these are different from our garden waste bin.
I strain off the liquid into the sink and solids go into the compost caddy.

Never ever put anything down the toilet except my own waste any left overs goes in a sealed biodegradable bag in the bin liquid apart from anything with fat in it down the sink