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Straight down the sink. It's a rental.

Other than saving it for use later when possible, we let it solidify and scrap it into the trash.

Stopped deep frying. Partly for health and partly out of laziness.

I just wash my pan normally. The amount of leftover oil is negligible.

If I deep fry something (which I pretty much never do), I put in a glass jar and throw it into the bin.

keep a rag bag handy and just wipe up cooking grease with those, them throw them in a pile next to the wood stove

you end up needing the oily rags to wipe down the wood stove anyway or else it will rust

I pour it into a bowl. Once full ill freeze it then toss out on trash day

I pretty much use your method, although sometimes after making breakfast sausage, I will fill up the pan with soap and water and let it soak for maybe a day. Then, I will go outside and dump and kinda hose it off then take it back inside to wash in the sink proper.

Lubricate the garbage disposal with it.

Into a teacup, into the fridge, then when full and solidified, peeled out and thrown into the trash.

Good for a cold winter chimney firing.

This depends on what kind of fat it is. Bacon fat I save, then clarify when there's enough, then use it for cooking.

A little bit of oil in the iron skillet? Pour kosher salt on it when it cools down enough, use the salt & oil to scrub it clean, wipe it out & rinse it (and dry of course).

Duck I render it first and save the fat, then finish cooking it.

I don't really deep fry so mostly what happens with other cooking oil is I eat it, in the food.

Paper towel -> trash.

Also a reason why we don't deep fry something and only fry semi submerged

Keep an extra can about for fat drippings.

I pour it into an empty can and freeze it then eventually trash

I don't have enough oil left over to bother doing something other than wash normally

if there's enough fat left, either cook more food in it, or wipe it with a paper towel. but that's rare

I generally don't get a lot of fat left in my pan. But when there is some, I tend to use it for whatever I cook next. It's good stuff.

I don't cook with that much that there is relevant leftovers to begin with. I just wash my pan with soap and hot water.