Disposal of ingredients and equipment.
Questions tagged [disposal]
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What's the proper way to dispose of used fats & oils?
Down the drain? Does it depend on the type? With bacon fat, I usually let it solidify in a cup lined with foil, and then throw it out. With used canola oil, I'm not quite sure what to do because it doesn't solidify.
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What is the proper way to dispose of a kitchen knife?
How do you throw away a kitchen knife (or for that matter, any knife)? It seems extremely dangerous to just throw it in the dumpster, even if it's wrapped up real well.
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How to dispose large amount of wet sugar?
I semi- regularly make my own dried, aged meat. As the first step, I keep it for 24-48 hours in sugar. Sugar sucks water out beautifully and when I'm done with it, it's dripping wet.
So I have 10kg of dripping wet sugar that cannot go into compost…
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Is it safe to wash meat packaging before throwing it away?
Is it recommended to wash plastic packaging for raw meat before disposing of it? I see advice to just rinse it with soap in the sink to prevent the bin from smelling.
However, I also see it is usually not recommended to wash raw meat as there is a…
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Why throw away so much sourdough starter? Tartine Book no. 3
this is the first time I've use this site to ask a question:
I've been meaning to bake some sourdough bread for a long while. I've been just hung up on the recipe for the starter.
A book I'm currently using for inspiration says to do roughly a 1:1…
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how to unseam - or otherwise safely open - steel olive oil cans
Is there a simple household technique to undo the seam of olive oil cans?
Olive oil is sold in 3L metal cans. They might have a shoebox profile - are brand names OK? Filipo Berio brand. There are smaller volumes as well. These metal olive oil cans…
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