What to do with fat?

[S Viemeister]

Hah! Knew you couldn't find me and my rubbish-disposing fireplace!

[Clot]

Just because you asked friends to burn the evidence does not mean that I will not find you. I'm just searching 42 Acacia Avenue at present!

[Stuart Noble]

At £1.50 for a small loaf of anything decent, I make sure I don't get left with stale bread. Slice it, freeze it, and pop what you want to use in the toaster. Also allows you to have 2 or 3 different loaves on the go to finely tweak stool consistency.

[Me Here]

Compost it. Burn it. Put it in someone else's bin

[The Medway Handyman]

They will be too busy filling the bath with coal.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Stuart Noble saying something like:

Wire brush and Dettol.

[alan.holmes]

I usually soak it up with a kitchen paper towel, and put the towel in the bin.

Alan

[The Natural Philosopher]

I just chuck a tub of caustic followed by a kettle of boiling water down the drains. Then flush after a minute or two with plenty of water.

Saponifed fats will not return to fats: a complete chemical change has taken place. Your extra creation of detergent (alkali + fats/oils) is not going to add much to the load already imposed on the sewage systems by normal washing usage.

[Stuart Noble]

No, they become soaps, but increase in volume in the process, and may become as solid as a bar of soap. I think potassium hydroxide is used to produce the more liquid type of soap.

Your extra creation of detergent (alkali + fats/oils) is

[NT]

Is that pic yours Tim? Can it be used here:

[Tim]

Is that pic yours Tim? Can it be used here:

yes it's mine and anyone is free to use it/copy it. Just don't expect me to keep in on my webspace indefinitely. ;-)

Tim

NT

[Dave Liquorice]

Yep, you'd need an awful lot of detergent to ensure most of the fat was attached to detergent molecules.

Don't you have gravy with your roast lamb? Take the meat out of the pan to rest, drain off most of the fat into a bowl to cool, then use the juices and gravy browning to make the gravy in the meat pan. The fat drained off will seperate into fat and more meat jelly underneath. The jelly can be added onto the next roast with some of the fat. The fat can be used for other cooking, dripping sandwiches or mixed with seeds for the birds.

[Derek Geldard]

Mustn't feed bread to the dickie birds, it swells them up and makes them burst.

You can say that again, and boy do they stay solved.

You are Tom Lehrer and ICMFP .

Derek

[geoff]

In message , Tim writes

You think it might clog up the website ?

[Tim]

Truth or urban myth?

Can't say I've seen a lot of exploded birds lying around and certainly mallards, gulls and swans seemm immune to that effect.

Tim

[The Natural Philosopher]

The myth was seagulls and baking powder inside the bread..

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Derek Geldard saying something like:

Not that I've noticed. Indeed, the continuously re-occurring families of maggies and jackdaws around here thrive on it.

[Pete Verdon]

Someone I sailed with claimed to have done it with bacon-rind and carbide.

Pete

[Gib Bogle]

He sounds like a must to avoid.

[Gib Bogle]

In fact it makes them reproduce, so you might get a population explosion.