the drain can have little a grease, as a treat
As a home owner, $360 to get my kitchen drain cleaned. No more grease down the drain.
Keep it in a mug by the sink
Every time the mug fills up, dump it into a pot of very hot water, give it a stir, pour it into a mason jar, seal it tightly, and put it in the fridge upside down.
When it's cold, dump out the water, scrape the thin top layer of crap off, and voila, you have perfectly usable high smoke point salted lard for frying.
If you fry fresh pork belly, save that fat separately, do the same thing, and you have pure lard.
I briefly worked for a plumber during my college days to make money. He said the people who kept him in business were people who poured grease down the drain and also people who flushed tampons.
People who pour grease down the drain have definitely never unclogged a drain before.
Usually something like half fibers (hair, tampons, "flushable" wipes, etc), half grease and fats.
If it's a solid at room temp, it probably shouldn't go down the drain.
You don't have Plumbo or equivalent? 
it destroys all organic matter it touches. Fatbergs, human hair, small rodents, I've never paid anymore to clear anything.
Don't pour hot grease in a glass jar or it'll shatter and spill hot grease all over your counter and then when you grab a flimsy piece of plastic from the recycling and try to push it on to stop the spill and the plastic collapses and hot grease goes all over your forearm and gives you 2nd degree burns and your floor is covered in broken glass you will regret it.
Are you... speaking from experience?
Eh, a small mason jar is tough enough to handle a few tablespoons of bacon grease or whatever without shattering. But sure, if you've got a lot of grease at once, let it cool down first (or better yet, refrigerate the pot roast or whatever it is you've made, so that you can just pull the grease off the top of the pot in one hardened puck).
I use a Pyrex container if I want to safe the grease. Otherwise I make a bowl of aluminum foil, pour it into that, and toss it once it hardens.
That’s why I pour it into the jar in the sink.
That and I’m really messy and the sink is the easiest place to clean up spilled grease.
Are you the same people complaining about increasing food prices who are also throwing away the best part? The bacon is the byproduct. People! Save this grease and use it when another recipe calls for butter.
If I cook a bunch of bacon, im using that bacon greased up pan to cook up a bunch of other food before i clean it. It makes everything taste so much better.
hmm, my cookies taste weird now, but okay
I can't tell if people here are pouring their grease down the drain.
The answer is don't. "It will be fine" for the person who told you that it will be fine, but it will absolutely fail for you. You know that by now. Also that guy is lying and already had to snake his drain but won't tell you that.
Who puts fat down their drain hates their plumbing system.
Don’t listen to this awful man children. Pour fat down the drain, it’s ok.
Okay but how? In what? For how long? Do you reuse it again? How often? Does it go bad? Where do I put the jar? Do I close it? People just say shit like "save your grease" and expect me to know what to do.
You save it up in a can or a jar and then you have a world of options:
Throw it away Make soap from it Throw it away Use it to season cast iron pots and pans Throw it away Cook with it if it's from the last few days Throw it away Add it to outdoor dog food in the winter Throw it away Soften dry ski-you know what, just throw it away.
throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now
e: oh it's GIVE it away. Also a grease jar option!
You put it with the jar into general waste. I guess you could also filter and reuse it if you had the materials and will
Our drains need to learn to evolve with our rapidly changing technology
I always chug a beer/soda, open the top of the can using a can opener, and pour the grease into that.
NOTE: make sure all the liquid is out of the bottom of the can (maybe wipe it down with a towel) or else the grease may shoot back out
Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
Pour it down the drain to punish the landlord for raising the rent.
Obligatory response to this meme e'er time, "Sigh, if it's on septic its massively expensive infrastructure the tenant will be held liable for 10/10 times, and will only render one less living space habitable. And if it's on sewer it's punishing the public's wastewater treatment facility."
Aand resume.
Dad owned a low rent apartment house. people would put chicken bones in the drain and then call because the drain backed up. and take bulbs out of the hallway lights. He'd laugh about it then fix the stuff because he wasn't a good slum-lord. Probably never broke even
Says people who have never lived alone.
Like you don't even have to be a homeowner to know not to do this! I know this is shit posting, but there ain't no way you make it to reproductive age without figuring this one dumb thing out‽
Newer generations and less likely to own homes due to global housing markets cooling down. This is directly proportional to the inverse of fucks residents have about plumbering.
That said I wasn't raised to know this until the internet taught me. Then I started freezing them in cans and tossing in the trash.
It isn't put in the jar to throw away, its put in the jar to cook more food with later
For maximum enjoyment, drink it directly from the jar. Preferably while warm.
You shouldn’t pour it down the drain for obvious reasons but putting it in a jar is weird af. Is there some actual reason for the jar that I don’t know? Whenever I have to do the dishes and there is a lot of grease in a pan I just put a few papertowels (if needed) in the trash and pour the grease in there. When I’m done with the dishes I take the trash out.
IF you absolutely must do this, make sure to fill the bottom of the sink with a little bit of cold standing water first. This helps to break up the grease and seal in the juices.
Can, pour the grease into a can. Glass is likely to energetically and spontaneously disassemble when temperature shock occurs.
why would you bother with a jar? just leave the pan to cool then wipe it up with some paper and toss it in the food waste bin
Fuck that noice! Sometimes I buy bacon only because my fat jar is empty. That shit is gold for cooking with.
Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.
My mum used to have a lard jar that was a mix of concealed bacon fat and god knows what else. Not a fan.
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