Nanny Goats Soap Box
I store my fat in my ass.
I'm with Vodka Mom. Mine's in my arse.
Thanks for the linky love.
Unfortunately, I also store my fat in my belly and bum.
PS. Goat alert on my post last Monday.
What do I use to drain my meat? Hmm...
Well, the fat from cooking that you speak of gets disposed of two different ways in my house....
(A) When I am cooking and Hubby isn't home: I put my largest, wire mesh colander in the sink and tip the contents of the pan into it, while running HOT not cold water simultaneously to flush the fat down the drain
(B) When I am cooking and Hubby is home or could come home any moment and potentially catch me doing (A): I put my smallest, wire mesh colander on top of a glass jar (salsa jars tend to be used more than spag sauce jars in my house - bigger opening on top) (that's what she said) (yay the Office is on tonight) and carefully spoon the contents of the pan into the colander, thereby draining the fat into the jar for appropriate disposal.
Obviously, I'm a bigger fan of (A) as it doesn't leave my wrists feeling all carpal-tunnelized at the end.
just do as my redneck neighbor does: after removing meat or whatever from the frying pan and leaving grease behind, take it outside and dump it in the sewage drain - which i suppose is the same thing as pouring it down the sink, only your pipes will not get clogged
I simply use a pasta strainer. 
personally i use paper towels and tongs and sort of suck it up in them and drop them in the trashcan.
i can still remember the days when you left it in the pan because it has the flavor. those days are long gone though...
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I must never cook meat inside, because I never have fat to drain (as it were).
Guess it's time for a big pot of chile!
I used to just pour it down the drain while running hot water.... have switched to draining it into an old empty margarine bowl, snapping on the margarine lid and tossing into our garbage. Don't usually have a lot of fat to drain since we buy 4% fat hamburger.
Di
The Blue Ridge Gal
vodkamom took the words right out of my mouth. But I have more to add...
Not only do I store it in my ass, but my thighs (inner and outer) and my belly. Oh, I can't forget the back fat.
But, in the case of draining my meat, *ahem* I just use a slotted utensil to pull the meat out of the pan. THEN, I use scalding hot water to flush it down the drain while simultaneously running the garbage disposal. I've never had much luck with the carpel tunnel way. 1.) It hurts the hell out of my wrist and 2.) I always lose more meat and onions down the drain than I care to.
If you invent it, they will come. I mean, I will buy one!
What do you use to drain your meat? I am CRYING I laughed so hard! Can I write an entire post on THAT?? OMG!
Well, since you asked such a personal question - I just use the lid of whatever pan and I drain it into an old coffee can. A can is good cuz if the grease is vey hot you don't have to worry about it cracking the glass.
I always have very hot grease when I drain my meat.
Looks yummy. Much better than the coffee can mom used for that and anything she disgorged from appliances.. erp..- coffee grounds etc. Try this: Push the meat to one side of the pan. Tilt the pan a bit and use a paper towel to soak the grease up. Drop it in the garbage and voila - gone. Careful not to get any on those pink panties. The green people are gonna freak but it's better than accidentaly dropping dinner in the sink.
Wait ... you're supposed to drain the fat from your meat after you fry it? But the grease is so yummy!
what?? you actually store your fat in a jar? mine goes right to my ass. it's the best place for it!!
You so need to invent a contraption, patent it and sell it on QVC... in your stylish panties of course!
I'm bad and I live alone, so I just drain my meat with a spaghetti strainer, then run hot water down the drain after it whilst running my garbage disposal.
Yeah, my fat? Hips & ass.
Or I just kinda pour it in the sink and hope I don't snap my wrist in some freak grease pouring accident and dump ALL MY MEAT down the drain.
My father used to take the time to squish all of the ground meat to the side of the pan, tilt it slightly, then scoop out all of the fat with a tablespoon. It took forever, but he had strong arms. He would squish and spoon for 10 minutes, then add a can of Cream of Mushroom soup(which is worse?). I always think that putting it into the garbage in a jar or can is the right thing to do, but mostly I wash it down the sink with very hot water.
Personally I store my fat on my thighs. My husband however lets his fat dry in the pan and then scrapes it into the trash can. Yuck!
Yeah, I totally run mine down the drain with really hot water OR I feed it to the dogs. Makes their coats all shiny. Too bad goats aren't carnivores.
Ha ha ha! I loved this one. You have a wonderful knack for writing. You definitely need to make your invention.
I've always either scooped the grease into a container, carefully with a lid poured it, or used a mesh colander to drain it into the sink running hot water.
Your snap on lid would make a world of difference.
Can so picture the Nanny goat in those panties. Hee hee.
Thanks for the giggles this grand morning and the linky!
I have to go with Laura Ingalls Gunn and Heather's item A.
I don't cook that much meat that involves fat so I'm also apt to use the swish the paper towel around the pan method. Or the crack the cover just a tad and pour method.
i try to cook w/out fat... but when it's there.. it goes in a can/jar and then gets disposed of... but look at you fancypants!
i ♥ me some pink rufflebottom panties! (just got some myself!) ha!
That is a very much needed item! I usually scoop the meat into another container then drain the fat into the jar like you do.
My mom had a thingee like that too..and she had a pottery thingee that said "grease" on the side. I think dad used it on his hair as well.
I don't want to talk about fat.
Don't have any problem now I don't eat meat.
Love the big knickers!
Uhm, I buy ground sirloin... yeah, so we don't have that excess fat in a jar problem... although I doubt that would be a problem to a goat... must make for a lovely cocktail, glass jar and all.
I don't "store" my fat in my ass, hips and thighs....I "save" it there in case I need it later, for emergencies!
World famine? I'm safe!
Those skinny b***ches won't last. No offense to the skinny b***ches.
I have been pouring my cooking fat off into the sink for YEARS while running hot water. However, after a recent plumbing debacle, our plumber told me not to do that. So now I guess I'll be using the funky jar of fat like you. Maybe I can knit a cozy for it?
Mine goes into a plastic container with a lid and gets dumped in the trash.
Except Bacon Grease. I save that and let it sit in my fridge for a few years, then remember it's there and throw it out.
I store my fat on the couch deeply embedded in a cushion holding a remote on Sundays watching football.
....thank god Hubby doesn't read the comments I leave for other people
Haha... now if you could make a contraption that would let me strain the fat from my thighs into a jar, I'd pay dearly for that!
BTW, I tagged you for the 6 random things meme; seeing as you're super busy you might not get to it... but I thought of you!
Well, if you invent it, I'll be it. For now, I'm with Vodkamom also. Seems to be the main fat storage place around here.
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What's "fat"?
so true, though, I was of the fling it down the drain, but my husband taught me proper fat disposal procedures.
I will admit to storing no fat thank you... I am trying to be lean and mean for the holidays. I've decided to pay it forward in the fat department with extra hikes for the next few weeks.
Now the fat straining contraption you are referring sounds like it deserves a 1/3 page in the WHAT IS IT? category from Cook's Illustrated. I am sure if I saw one I would have no idea what the heck it was and would require professional direction as to it's use.
To those who flush the fat down the sink while running hot water. What happens is that when the fat hits your cold sewer pipes it condenses and forms a rind on your pipe. Over time it will build up and start catching food particles from your garbage disposal. Before you know it, you have a nasty plug in your pipe.
If you want to make sure your Roto-Rooter man can send all his kids to college, keep flushing melted fat down your pipes.
Either throw the stuff out in a tin can or let the stuff harden and flush with COLD water.
As for storage, I store my fat in the city sewer system. I have lost 60# since last April (I started on April Fools Day just because I'm twisted). Metabolized fat leaves the body in your urine, which is why all the weight loss diets want you to drink a bazillion glasses of water a day.
So, basically, every time I pee-pee I wave bye-bye to my ass as it flushes out to sea.
I've just got the post-itus itch today. Must be because I'm such an expert on fat AND cooking. Both of the products shown here are pot strainers for straining water soluble liquids like the water in a stock pot.
To separate out fat, you need an actual fat strainer. There are several out there, I use one by OXO that you can get at Target or Cooking.com:
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You pour off the pan fat into the strainer and let it sit. The fat will separate out with the solids on the bottom in a few minutes. Pour the solids out the spot in the bottom and what is left is fat ready for storage.
Or, as I like to call it, Heart attack in a spaghetti sauce jar.
Recently I saw on an episode of Trailer Park Boys (not that I watch that show! Or received it 8 days in a row off of my Netflix queue.) a delicacy called bread heels and grease. It was appealing and appalling, all at the same time.
Otherwise, I store mine right around my middle, where it's guaranteed to do the mos damage, apparently.
I put mine in decorative jars and give it to the neighbors for Christmas every year. I think they store it in their wine cellars.
If you're going to invent that pan strapper thingy, you need to have an infomercial where someone is trying to drain fat out of a hot pan without your device, and because she doesn't have your ingenious tool, she receives third degree burns and then looks at the camera with that overly-exasperated look of frustration before calling 911.
Wow. That was a long sentence.
Dude, I'm wearing a Pan Strapper right now and, let me tell you, it was SO worth the $19.95.
Yesss.
LOVE the fluffy pink nanny granny knockers.
I store my fat in my thighs and yogurt containers. I put one outside tonight so the birds will eat it. It's like a science experiment and I'll keep you posted. I know they'll eat suet, but we don't really cook a lot of meat so this is chicken fat. Wait! Would that turn the bird into cannibals if I tricked them into eating chicken fat?
Weeks from now I'll see two horror stricken cardinals tweeting "Tweet, soylent green, tweet!"
I store it in the backsides of every plaintiff who sues my clients, it seems. Then they blame their pre-existing health issues on us.
You're a genius! A soon to be rich genius! I'll buy your fat trapper thingy!
Personally I store my fat on my Muffin Top.
But really I use a Turkey Baster to suck the fat out of my food.
I am stopping here from SITS. I am still working on my SITSmas list. That post was great. I love your poem.
I also like your infommercial. My husband for a while was collecting grease. I told him I would never use it. Too Gross!!
I store my fat just where I don't want it...all over.
Those ruffly pink panties are fantastic! I can't imagine trying to stuff them into my jeans, though! ;O)
LOL! Perhaps you could store your fat in those pink knickers?
tis the season for hilarity i guess... made me laugh out loud!
okay... seriously though... I keep a large empty coffee can under the sink, which just happens to fit my medium metal colander's bottom. Colander on top of coffee can... put the meat into the colander and drain away... When I empty a new coffee can, I though the old one away and start over. I also use the can for any scraps that I'm not going to compost.
was this a serious question???
I store my fat in my enormous billowing belly.
Someday a man is going to think it's...pretty.
I used to remove the meat and then let the fat harden so I could scrape it out into the garbage, but, like you, my husband's sanity just couldn't take it and so I now do it "his way" because it's easier than an argument over something so silly. His way is th esame as your husband's... all jars get saved at our house (a waste of perfectly recyclable glass, if you ask me - sheesh) to put fat into.
Hey...I'd buy your gadget...oh wait...I don't cook...so I don't have to drain anything! See those little microwave dishes come already prepared...and I don't have to give a ratsazz what they do with their fat drainage. woo hoo! it pays to be lazy!
I think it's mostly in my thighs, but some ends up in my cheeks (both kinds).
Girl you make me laugh!!
Spaghetti jar just like you.
And as soon as you have patented your grease drizzle thingy you can sell it...and then there will be a whole bunch of Pinoy/Pinay blogs touting the wonder of the Frilly Pants Grease Drizzle Thingy that no one can live without. You rock!
You gift is posted on my site. I hope you'll stop by and see what I got you.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Now I have to follow you. Why do we go though this fat storing process? I mean how much fat do you have to use to clog a drain? I don't think anyone cooks like that anymore, do they?
All I can think of is that Friends episode where for Rachel to forgive Ross she is going to make him drink the fat.
I'm a vegetarian, so its less about draining the meat and more about not buying it.
OMG.
We used to store out fat in a metal can too.
Now I seem to be storing my fat in my triple chin!
I didn't have time to read through everyone's comments.
I just pour it directly into the trash! Usually the trash if full so it isn't running straight to the bottom. If I need to then I'll put paper towels in the trash to soak it up. I refuse to save fat! Blech!
I do own a little metal container that says 'grease' on the outside. I believe it has bacon fat from 1993 in it! LOL!!
I hide my fat in my big 'ol granny panties.
Please tell me all that fat isnt from one meal...
fat? we only eat hotdogs around here...hotdogs and chicken nuggets and bologna sandwhichs. no need for flushing fat down the drain. now we have all sorts of things that we put in the toilet, or rather my daughter puts in the toilet--my little ponies, blocks, trimmers, scissors,ect..
you know, the usual.
Not only do I have an almost identical jar o'lard on my counter.... cripes... I've got the same tile... Cue Twilight Zone TV theme....
I bought an actual vintage grease jar on ebay. It's what I'll keep my fat in from now on!
I drain meat fat into a collander that is precariously perched on a bowl in the kitchen sink. Later, when the fat's congealed. I scrape the bowl and throw the fat into the garbage. Yes, I change garbage bags with great frequency. Yes, there's probably a much "greener" method. No, I'm not going to read the 69 comments above to search for it.
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