That's just the oil they dumped after pressure-cooking the hashish

Came to post Hippies Hate Water (new window)
but then I RTFA:

Residential homes are another common source of the grease, especially when people put food items like sour cream, bacon bits and even ice cream down the garbage disposal, which wreaks havoc on the pipes.

Sour Cream is bad for your pipes?! Did not know that!

/Has an oil fryer
//needs to find a better way to dispose of used grease

Sounds like some company needs to buy it, turn it into fuel, and re-sell it.

Last night, I drank a small shoebox worth of beer.

"My God, you're greasy."

I would have though it was more than that.

Doesn't seem so bad...

To help cut down on the greasy issue, the city of Seattle is now requiring that all restaurants install grease traps to minimize the amount of muck that makes it into the drain.

Wait, you mean you didn't already require grease traps?!? I thought they were pretty much required anywhere in civilization. Or is Seattle the least civilized place in the US?

We specialize in the Electrical for water pumping, yevery year we wire 20 to 30 lift stations of those 10 will be rebuilds. I have seen 8' Diameter vaults most are 20'-30'deep with the walls caked with white grease 2 ft thick from top to bottom. Real sick.

Never pour grease down your drain. Whenever I cook bacon, for example, I always pour the grease into a plastic cup and then put it in the freezer. When it is solid as a rock the next day, you can shake it right out of the cup and throw it into the garbage or whatever.

That's it? Large swimming pool. Kind of vague. I'll assume an Olympic-sized swimming pool, that's 660253.09 gallons of water. Multiply by 7, that's 4,621,771.63 Gallons (per month, remember, per month). Now the population of Seattle is (at 2000 census) 563374. Wow. But, let's keep in mind tourism numbers. 9.1 million overnight visitors estimated here (new window). That was in '05. so lets say, and I know that the numbers I'm giving might be "shady" here because the tourism numbers are for the city and the county, 9.1 Million/12 months = an average of 758,333 extra people per month. So we'll add that to the general population which is 1,321,707 estimated people in the Seattle area per given month. That's 3.5 (rounded up)gallons of grease down the sewers per person per month. Gross.

Yeah my family always put cooking grease in coffee cans then threw out the solidified crap when it got full.

wildsnowllama: That's it? Large swimming pool. Kind of vague. I'll assume an Olympic-sized swimming pool, that's 660253.09 gallons of water. Multiply by 7, that's 4,621,771.63 Gallons (per month, remember, per month). Now the population of Seattle is (at 2000 census) 563374. Wow. But, let's keep in mind tourism numbers. 9.1 million overnight visitors estimated here (new window). That was in '05. so lets say, and I know that the numbers I'm giving might be "shady" here because the tourism numbers are for the city and the county, 9.1 Million/12 months = an average of 758,333 extra people per month. So we'll add that to the general population which is 1,321,707 estimated people in the Seattle area per given month. That's 3.5 (rounded up)gallons of grease down the sewers per person per month. Gross.

You forgot the Taco Bell factor.

walnuts55: wildsnowllama: That's it? Large swimming pool. Kind of vague. I'll assume an Olympic-sized swimming pool, that's 660253.09 gallons of water. Multiply by 7, that's 4,621,771.63 Gallons (per month, remember, per month). Now the population of Seattle is (at 2000 census) 563374. Wow. But, let's keep in mind tourism numbers. 9.1 million overnight visitors estimated here (new window). That was in '05. so lets say, and I know that the numbers I'm giving might be "shady" here because the tourism numbers are for the city and the county, 9.1 Million/12 months = an average of 758,333 extra people per month. So we'll add that to the general population which is 1,321,707 estimated people in the Seattle area per given month. That's 3.5 (rounded up)gallons of grease down the sewers per person per month. Gross.

You forgot the Taco Bell factor.

Whoa. shiat.

FuturePastNow: Sounds like some company needs to buy it, turn it into fuel, and re-sell it.

True. This is petroleum.

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mekkab: Came to post Hippies Hate Water (new window)
but then I RTFA:

Residential homes are another common source of the grease, especially when people put food items like sour cream, bacon bits and even ice cream down the garbage disposal, which wreaks havoc on the pipes.

Sour Cream is bad for your pipes?! Did not know that!

/Has an oil fryer
//needs to find a better way to dispose of used grease

Those aren't hippies.

Every month, my sewer bill is twice my water bill. Given no choice but to pay it, or my water gets cut off, I'm dumping everything I want down the friggin' drain: lard, used motor oil, cat grease...gotta get my money's worth out of it.

/saw "The Book of Eli" this weekend.

Tumunga: Every month, my sewer bill is twice my water bill. Given no choice but to pay it, or my water gets cut off, I'm dumping everything I want down the friggin' drain: lard, used motor oil, cat grease...gotta get my money's worth out of it.

Oh god this. I live in one town where my monthly water consumption gave me a bill of like $15/mo. Whereas, the sewage cost $52/mo. Those are both monthly.

And the sewage wasn't calculated based on household size, estimated by neighbor, or (what it should of farking been) calculated by MY ACTUAL farkING WATER USEAGE. It was a flat $52/mo fee.

mishmashmusic: Never pour grease down your drain. Whenever I cook bacon, for example, I always pour the grease into a plastic cup and then put it in the freezer. When it is solid as a rock the next day, you can shake it right out of the cup and throw it into the garbage or whatever.

Wait, you don't cook with your used bacon grease? That's not very green of you!

/spent too much time living in the south

Rumpleforskin: Yeah my family always put cooking grease in coffee cans then threw out the solidified crap when it got full.

This
/People who pour that down the drain are asking for trouble

TFA suggests throwning this stuff away... Nope. That's what I pay sewer fees for, and why I have a garbage disposal -- so I don't have to throw stinking food scraps in the garbage.

*MAYBE* if we picked garbage up more often than once a week, but I am not putting anything extra into the trash to make it stink worse in the summer than it already does.

drjekel_mrhyde: Rumpleforskin: Yeah my family always put cooking grease in coffee cans then threw out the solidified crap when it got full.

This
/People who pour that down the drain are asking for trouble

Old roommate of mine would just go camping and toss the whole can on the fire.

Made if smell as if you were cooking a metric fark-ton of bacon.

Yum.

mishmashmusic: Never pour grease down your drain. Whenever I cook bacon, for example, I always pour the grease into a plastic cup and then put it in the freezer. When it is solid as a rock the next day, you can shake it right out of the cup and throw it into the garbage or whatever. cook your eggs with it.

FTFY

wildsnowllama: That's it? Large swimming pool. Kind of vague. I'll assume an Olympic-sized swimming pool, that's 660253.09 gallons of water. Multiply by 7, that's 4,621,771.63 Gallons (per month, remember, per month). Now the population of Seattle is (at 2000 census) 563374. Wow. But, let's keep in mind tourism numbers. 9.1 million overnight visitors estimated here (new window). That was in '05. so lets say, and I know that the numbers I'm giving might be "shady" here because the tourism numbers are for the city and the county, 9.1 Million/12 months = an average of 758,333 extra people per month. So we'll add that to the general population which is 1,321,707 estimated people in the Seattle area per given month. That's 3.5 (rounded up)gallons of grease down the sewers per person per month. Gross.

Or, you could follow the link to the story and read the first paragraph:
It's estimated that 544,000 gallons of grease slip down Seattle's drains each month, enough to fill seven large swimming pools. Most of it comes from dirty dishes and food waste, and it's a problem.

I used to live in a place with a "large" swimming pool at 38,000 gallons. Every one is different, but the guesstimate you had had you off by an order of magnitude.

Via Google: 544000/9.1 million/30*128 gets me 1/4 of an ounce per person per day. Or 7.65 ounces per month. A half pound. Doesn't sound so bad.

It's appalling they haven't even figured out which of their restaurants don't have grease traps. Worse yet the reporter wrote "many" when "most" was clearly required.

Why don't people use it for their retirement fund?

stucka: wildsnowllama: That's it? Large swimming pool. Kind of vague. I'll assume an Olympic-sized swimming pool, that's 660253.09 gallons of water. Multiply by 7, that's 4,621,771.63 Gallons (per month, remember, per month). Now the population of Seattle is (at 2000 census) 563374. Wow. But, let's keep in mind tourism numbers. 9.1 million overnight visitors estimated here (new window). That was in '05. so lets say, and I know that the numbers I'm giving might be "shady" here because the tourism numbers are for the city and the county, 9.1 Million/12 months = an average of 758,333 extra people per month. So we'll add that to the general population which is 1,321,707 estimated people in the Seattle area per given month. That's 3.5 (rounded up)gallons of grease down the sewers per person per month. Gross.

Or, you could follow the link to the story and read the first paragraph:
It's estimated that 544,000 gallons of grease slip down Seattle's drains each month, enough to fill seven large swimming pools. Most of it comes from dirty dishes and food waste, and it's a problem.

I used to live in a place with a "large" swimming pool at 38,000 gallons. Every one is different, but the guesstimate you had had you off by an order of magnitude.

Via Google: 544000/9.1 million/30*128 gets me 1/4 of an ounce per person per day. Or 7.65 ounces per month. A half pound. Doesn't sound so bad.

It's appalling they haven't even figured out which of their restaurants don't have grease traps. Worse yet the reporter wrote "many" when "most" was clearly required.

Much better.

Tumunga: Every month, my sewer bill is twice my water bill. Given no choice but to pay it, or my water gets cut off, I'm dumping everything I want down the friggin' drain: lard, used motor oil, cat grease...gotta get my money's worth out of it.

/saw "The Book of Eli" this weekend.

cat grease?

mishmashmusic: Never pour grease down your drain. Whenever I cook bacon, for example, I always pour the grease into a plastic cup and then put it in the freezer. When it is solid as a rock the next day, you can shake it right out of the cup and throw it into the garbage or whatever.

One of my neighbors pours her bacon grease out her kitchen window onto the grass; it's the first place I look if my mastiff gets out.

step 1 skim it
step 2 convert to bio fuel
step 3 profit

BTW snarkmitter you can kiss my ass, true hippies can't afford the rents in Seattle.

We usually sop it up with paper towels to use as a fire starter in our outdoor fireplace. Smells damn good too.

silent tom: Tumunga: Every month, my sewer bill is twice my water bill. Given no choice but to pay it, or my water gets cut off, I'm dumping everything I want down the friggin' drain: lard, used motor oil, cat grease...gotta get my money's worth out of it.

/saw "The Book of Eli" this weekend.

cat grease?

It's a comment from the horrible piece of shiat that is the book of eli.

Fried potatoes and onions cooked in bacon grease.

That is all

odinsposse: mishmashmusic: Never pour grease down your drain. Whenever I cook bacon, for example, I always pour the grease into a plastic cup and then put it in the freezer. When it is solid as a rock the next day, you can shake it right out of the cup and throw it into the garbage or whatever. cook your eggs with it.

FTFY

Put a sliver in when you're boiling potatoes for mashed potatoes. Keeps them from boiling over.

Personally, the grease I'm not saving just gets poured into an old glass jar under the sink. It's really not difficult. Although I suppose if I didn't grow up with my dad doing that every Saturday morning maybe I wouldn't know about it.

I don't know if I buy the sour cream thing.

I eat soy bacon so I don't have this problem.

True story.
/runs

I had a boyfriend who used to pour grease down the toilet. I'd hate to see what the eventual fallout of that was.

You'd think they'd figure out a cheap way to convert this stuff to a useful fuel source.

amanogowa: TFA suggests throwning this stuff away... Nope. That's what I pay sewer fees for, and why I have a garbage disposal -- so I don't have to throw stinking food scraps in the garbage.

*MAYBE* if we picked garbage up more often than once a week, but I am not putting anything extra into the trash to make it stink worse in the summer than it already does.

Actually, the grease preserves the food scraps if you throw them away together. It blocks out the oxygen and the maggii. Simply coat the exterior of the waste scraps with the grease using a small brush then place them in foil and discard. Personally, I use the garbage disposal, but I match the biomass with it's weight in dish soap. Any dish soap with 'grease cutting action' will work.

If you live in the north and do this often enough, you can make suet for the birds out of the grease. Little bit of bird seed, cover it with the grease, freeze, and viola - cheap suet.

This means little birds flying around my house, which makes my wife happy. Happy wife = happy me.

amanogowa: silent tom: Tumunga: Every month, my sewer bill is twice my water bill. Given no choice but to pay it, or my water gets cut off, I'm dumping everything I want down the friggin' drain: lard, used motor oil, cat grease...gotta get my money's worth out of it.

/saw "The Book of Eli" this weekend.

cat grease?

It's a comment from the horrible piece of shiat that is the book of eli.

You should make sure to wring your cats out at least once a week or they get fussy from all of the grease.

mortimer_ford: amanogowa: TFA suggests throwning this stuff away... Nope. That's what I pay sewer fees for, and why I have a garbage disposal -- so I don't have to throw stinking food scraps in the garbage.

*MAYBE* if we picked garbage up more often than once a week, but I am not putting anything extra into the trash to make it stink worse in the summer than it already does.

Actually, the grease preserves the food scraps if you throw them away together. It blocks out the oxygen and the maggii. Simply coat the exterior of the waste scraps with the grease using a small brush then place them in foil and discard. Personally, I use the garbage disposal, but I match the biomass with it's weight in dish soap. Any dish soap with 'grease cutting action' will work.

While you may be right about coating the food in soon-to-be-rancid grease, the dish soap method is much easier.

It'll take a crapload of greasy food to clog a 5 inch waste line which is why it doesn't come up very often for people.

At least that unbiased news article didn't try to sell us anything that is also provided on that website.

Oh, oops.

Seasons I'v Withered: Fried potatoes and onions and cabbage cooked in bacon grease.

That is all

FTFY

/Try it, it's how they make corned beef hash (minus the corned beef)

Seasons I'v Withered: Fried potatoes and onions cooked in bacon grease.

That is all

Damn straight. Sizzlin' homefries cooked in bacon grease.

mekkab: Came to post Hippies Hate Water (new window)
but then I RTFA:

Residential homes are another common source of the grease, especially when people put food items like sour cream, bacon bits and even ice cream down the garbage disposal, which wreaks havoc on the pipes.

Sour Cream is bad for your pipes?! Did not know that!

/Has an oil fryer
//needs to find a better way to dispose of used grease

When I had a deep fryer in college, I would just go out around 10pm when no one would see me, and dump it in the garden once the grease got nasty.

/more mature now
//no deep fryer
///foreman grill grease gets scraped into the trash