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19.04.2021, 10:00
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With covid meaning we have to cook at home, I've been experimenting with different meals and have just tried fish n chips. Now I have to dispose of the sunflower oil.
How does everyone else get rid of it?
Thanks
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19.04.2021, 10:04
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The local trash center has a barrel for used oils, engine or cooking doesn't matter.
Where in ZH are you?
The one in 8600 is here https://www.google.ch/maps/place/Cit...32!4d8.6332845 | 
19.04.2021, 10:05
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Recycling places quite often have a tank in which one can pour old oil.
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19.04.2021, 10:05
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Let it cool, collect it in a container and dispose it at your local déchetterie where the oil disposal containers are.
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19.04.2021, 10:05
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Ok thanks, the local one will have it then, they have everything else.
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19.04.2021, 10:11
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Look for the nearest collection point on www.recycling-map.ch Usually there's a 200L drum with a funnel, just pour the oil there.
First time I went to dispose of some waste oil from the bicycle I was surprised that all oils are mixed in the same drum: motor oil, cooking oil, etc.
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19.04.2021, 10:22
| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | With covid meaning we have to cook at home, I've been experimenting with different meals and have just tried fish n chips. Now I have to dispose of the sunflower oil.
How does everyone else get rid of it?
| | | | | Not after a single use, for sure, Just pour it back into a bottle to use it next time.
I generally use groundnut oil, and if we cook something contaminating like pakoras or Chinese crispy beef it is no longer suitable for general use such as for chips, so it gets stored separately for next time.
Of course it has a limited number of uses anyway, but for both economic and environmental reasons it makes sense not to simply throw it away after a single use.
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19.04.2021, 10:25
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Yes that's true and I had also these intentions, but the thought came to me about how I eventually get rid of it, which has now been answered. Thanks a lot.
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19.04.2021, 10:26
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: |  | | | Of course it has a limited number of uses anyway, but for both economic and environmental reasons it makes sense not to simply throw it away after a single use. | | | | | Food health reasons as well. High levels of BCBs taste nice, but they're not massively good for you. The recommendations I've seen are 3 or 4 times, but up to 8 times for cleaner food, like straight forward chips.
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19.04.2021, 10:26
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | Look for the nearest collection point on www.recycling-map.ch Usually there's a 200L drum with a funnel, just pour the oil there. 
First time I went to dispose of some waste oil from the bicycle I was surprised that all oils are mixed in the same drum: motor oil, cooking oil, etc. | | | | | And that points to our local entsorgungspark. | This user would like to thank justpassingby for this useful post: | | 
19.04.2021, 10:36
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My husband developed a yearning for kroket (he’s Dutch). So we got a tfal deep fryer that filters the oil and stores is in a reservoir till the next use. We use the oil maybe 3-4 times, or so.
It’s a great appliance - pretty much everything goes in the dishwasher (after being degreased).
It’s a tfal oleoclean pro, about chf 110. I understand there might be a smaller model too.
Makes great general tso’s chicken (Chinese American, admittedly inauthentic cuisine)
But yeah, there’s an oil recycling drum near us too.
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19.04.2021, 10:43
| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | Food health reasons as well. High levels of BCBs taste nice, but they're not massively good for you. The recommendations I've seen are 3 or 4 times, but up to 8 times for cleaner food, like straight forward chips. | | | | | Filtering the BCBs out after each use can also increase the lifespan, as can using high smoking-point oils like the groundnut I prefer (mainly for its neutral taste).
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19.04.2021, 10:51
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What's BCB? And yes I've googled or should I say duckduckgoed? | 
19.04.2021, 11:01
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: |  | | | Filtering the BCBs out after each use can also increase the lifespan, as can using high smoking-point oils like the groundnut I prefer (mainly for its neutral taste). | | | | | Is there any difference between groundnut and peanut?
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19.04.2021, 11:17
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | Is there any difference between groundnut and peanut? | | | | | Not with the actual nuts but the Americans say groundnuts and the English peanuts.
When we were kids, if they were still in their shells, we used to call them monkey nuts. (U.K.)
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19.04.2021, 11:19
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | Not with the actual nuts but the Americans say groundnuts and the English peanuts. | | | | | You have that backwards, I don't know any Americans who say "groundnuts".
Groundnut butter?
Tom
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19.04.2021, 11:24
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | You have that backwards, I don't know any Americans who say "groundnuts". 
Groundnut butter? 
Tom | | | | | Neither do I, actually. Americans pretty much exclusively use peanut.
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19.04.2021, 11:27
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | You have that backwards, I don't know any Americans who say "groundnuts". 
Groundnut butter? 
Tom | | | | | Brits definitely say peanuts (or monkey nuts)
Who says Groundnuts?
(I googled it - peanuts are one type of groundnut).
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19.04.2021, 11:30
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| | Re: Sunflower Oil disposal | Quote: | |  | | | You have that backwards, I don't know any Americans who say "groundnuts". 
Groundnut butter? 
Tom | | | | | Well, there was the Tanganyika_groundnut_scheme but it was a British thing.
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19.04.2021, 11:33
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Germans say Erdnüsse....groundnut from translation?
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