Disposing of cooking oil down your drain could cause plumbing problems. Billy the Sunshine Plumber can help solve those – and all other – plumbing problems.

You really try to keep up with daily exercise, but recently it’s been so hot that you’ve bypassed your morning walks at one of Brooksville’s parks. Instead, you’ve been staying home and doing a lot of cooking. Despite your usual avoidance of fried foods, you have to admit you’ve been bingeing on them recently. There’s nothing as good as fried food.

True, fried food is delicious. Problem is, that you use a lot of grease and oil to get that wonderful, crunch and taste. That oil and grease can spell doom for your plumbing.

“It’s often tempting to pour the hot oil down your sink so it can flow freely through pipes like water ….. Except, hot oil isn’t like water at all,” according to tastingtable.com.

The danger is that grease and oil can clog your drain and/or pipe and create a “fatberg.”

“These are formed when hot oil reacts with all the wonderful stuff in sewers, like waste and cleaning product chemicals. As fatbergs are established, things can go really downhill — or down-drain — quickly,” tastingtable.com adds. “Once fatbergs are made, they grow in size from debris that sticks to them, which may clog pipes and cause bursts. And if that’s not enough, continuously pouring oil down the drain can also cause damage to city sewer mains, drainage fields, and distribution lines.”

The problem is – where do you dump the grease and oil if you can’t toss it down the drain? Well, tastingtable.com suggests you mix it with a bit of baking soda until you get a paste, then put the paste in the trash.

And what if you’ve already dumped it in the sink? You can try flooding the drain with hot water mixed with some dish detergent. If that doesn’t work and you get a clog you can’t budge, then it’s time to call the trusted plumbers at Billy the Sunshine Plumber for help.

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Try reusing that cooking oil instead of dumping it.

You spent part of the afternoon at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and when you got home, all you wanted was a drink and some fried mozzarella sticks. You decided to indulge yourself and now you’re trying to decide what to do with a pan full of used cooking oil.

Whatever you do, don’t dump it in the sink. Cooking oil is notorious for clogging pipes and creating blockages that can be really had to get rid of. You could dump it in the trash. Or maybe, you could reuse it. But don’t reuse it before you clean it, says food.ntv.com.

“Have you noticed the small particles left behind from the dishes you create every time you cook …?” foodndtv.com  asks. “These particles could be leftover batter or the skin of an ingredient that you may have fried. It is critical to remove these tiny particles before reusing the oil.”

Food.ndtv.com suggests two ways of removing those particles. One is to strain the oil though something like a coffee filter or cheesecloth. Another is to “heat the oil in a small saucepan. Then take sliced pieces of lemon and place them in the oil. The black particles will stick to the lemon. Take out the lemon pieces and use the oil again.” It is unclear if the lemon will flavor the oil.

No matter how careful you are, you might get a clog or blockage. If you do get a grease clog, you can try to clear it by pouring hot water or a plunger to get things moving again. If all else fails, then it’s time to call Billy the Sunshine Plumber for help.

Billy the Sunshine Plumber has been the Tampa Bay 24-hour plumber of choice since 1924 when he first opened for business. Billy the Sunshine Plumber is open 24/7/365 in Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties. Days, nights, weekends, or holidays, Billy the Sunshine Plumber is always here for you.

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