Turgid Drama Rears Its Ugly Head

[madbaker]

I dropped the stoneware grease trap on the floor (because, well, the side was slightly greasy). Where it shattered. All that lovely pig grease I'd been saving from charcuterie, splat.

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[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

That's really a shame.

When I was growing up my mom had an aluminum grease trap she used strictly for bacon grease. I wonder if you could find one of them at a thrift store. It wouldn't be nearly as attractive, of course.

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up, we had an old mug on the stove for cooking grease (during the cooler months anyway - July and August, it tended to migrate to the refrigerator) - what's the difference between a random bowl/mug and your "grease trap"?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

This was a stoneware crock that originally contained rillettes, but after eating them we washed and re-purposed it. Good size, dishwasher safe, hot grease safe - it worked very well.
We bought some Pyrex bowls this morning to replace it.

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

OK. It's just that for me, a grease-trap is part of the plumbing under the sink...

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

The metal thing mom used had a removable strainer so you would keep the solid bits out of the saved grease. That's what I was thinking he meant.