If you have a fireplace, used cooking oil burns great.

So... What are you supposed to do with oil if not pouring it down the drain?

What on earth are you all cooking to have so much oil left over that you can pour it into anything?

I did that once, I was staying at a family as an exchange student and immediately forced to help with chores. Now, they ran a large creche from that house so there were a lot of different chores and being on dishes could mean slaving away in the kitchen for well over an hour.

Anyway, I didn't know shit about how to properly dispose of oil and in the first or second week poured a large pan of oil down the drain. It ended up ruining some stuff and they had a hefty repair bill. I may be cynical, but I never gave a damn about it as they were basically using me as free labor anyway. Helping with household chores = ok. Helping clean up the gigantic daily mess of those shitty kids in your shitty creche = not ok

Ken M vibes

We had a grease can under the sink when I wasgrowing up. My fiancee and I use an old jar. I can't believe people didn't know better. They probably think it's fine to dump car fluids in the storm drain too. Idiots.

~~I keep a container for used cooking oil along with old motor oil. Whenever it starts getting full, I take it to the local auto parts store for recycling.~~

Do not take cooking oil to an Advanced Auto Parts for recycling. They do not accept that. If you'd like other options, a quick internet search will let you know what you can doodoo brown 🕺

Idc if this is dumb, I pour it in a bucket and when it's full I dig a hole in the back yard and pour the oil in there and bury it. I do this 1-2 times a year.

I have a small bucket filled with sawdust that I use to store used cooking oil. Bucket stays in the garage as it'll eventually go rancid. When it does, it gets thrown into the trash. The resulting mess is still greasy, but not runny. The key here is that soaking it this way limits the mess that can happen if it's knocked over; sawdust is what you use to clean an oil spill anyway.

Wood-based cat litter would also work for this. It's just compressed sawdust pellets^1^.

Edit: I have not looked into donating it as biodiesel. That would probably be a somewhat more green option.

^1^ - very likely made in the same fashion as pellet stove fuel, so that might work too.

If you have a metal bowl that you no longer need, you can put a roll of toilet paper in there and then douse the whole thing in cooling oil.

Once ignited you will have a stinky lamp, so I would only recommend doing this outside.

I'll usually wipe the oil with some paper so I can throw it on the trash. Many moons ago, my family used to collect the oil to make soap at home. Last time I recall seeing that was some 30-ish years ago.

I just drink it.

What a waste of perfectly good lube.