How To Recycle Your Cooking Oil That Is No Longer Fit For Food Plus Complete Olympic Stats From 1920-2008
by Cecile Cinco
Do you cook? Sometimes, if not always, you will get yourself into cooking deep fried fries or chicken, or whatever. I mean, you would use some amount of oil more than usual. Deep fries tend to use a lot of cooking oil right away and you would want to use that oil after it has been used for cooking. Sometimes, another fried dinner will get back that same oil to the pan.
What if you can no longer use it for cooking because it has turned brownish and when you were not careful enough, it could be that it’s no longer brownish, but blackish instead…and you have a gallon of it!
With the dropping dollar, you might be into some frugal mania festival. Being almost always in the needy and scout (resourceful) state, I’ve learned to use that black oil.
Turn it into light!
Rather, make it fuel to give you light. You can use it when you get power outage or if you just want to save some money. It’s surely environmental safe and it does not make your nose blackish, unlike candles.
What you need:
- steeping container like tin can or jar
- strip of cotton cloth
- empty bottle with tin cap
- used oil
What to do:
1. Steep oil for about 5 days in a tin can or jar.
2. Transfer to another container. If it fits the bottle with tin cap, then pour it there. Be careful, don’t include any steeped “trash” that sank at the bottom of the first container.
3. Make a wick out of a strip of cotton cloth (could be the hem of an old shirt). Make sure when
you make a twine that the total length will be more than the height of the bottle.
4. Hammer a hole with a nail through the cap of the bottle. One in the middle (wick hole) and four around (breathing holes).
5. Insert the wick cloth through the hole from inside towards the top of the cap.
6. Get the rest of the wick inside the bottle to get it wet with the oil. Make sure to wet the top wick also–very wet with oil.
7. Close the cap.
8. Lit the wick.
You now have an emergency light that is not chemically dangerous and does not cost electric power and made use of your trash oil.
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Hi,
We live in a society of consumism and fast pace.
Things that could have alternative uses are thrown into litter contributing for environmental problems.
Recently, blogs about recycling have appeared and are welcomed.
I enjoyed reading your article.
José
Hi Jose, thanks for the compliment. I know I haven’t been updating as much as I should but I will.
I’m just taking care of stuff I need to take care of at a given moment. Thanks for visiting.
This is a very creative idea; however, I think the smoke from the fire would create far more pollution than the manufacture and disposal of batteries.
Hi Ben….On the contrary. I’m asthmatic and this has been a lot better than making gas/kerosene as fuel (which actually turns your nostrils black after some time). Oil as fuel has none of that.
You have a breathtaking blog, by the way!
Thanks for stopping by…
I would be worried about safety issues. What would happen if it were to fall and break?
The good thing about it, when it breaks, is, the fire will die out, actually. Unlike kerosene or gas, which catches the fire wild when it spreads.
I think the implications of doing this during an extended blackout should be considered. If the incident has gone on long enough, hungry neighbors are liable to think you have fresh hot food handy…
Not bad at all
Wow. Cool. This is a really good idea, then. I’ve been throwing out used cooking oil.
Thanks for checking out my blog. I’m glad you liked it. I know we all work hard on our blogs, and it’s nice to hear when people get something out of it.
Thanks for coming back, Ben!
Your site really rocks with great pictures I can only dream of seeing the sites personally. 
You have great tips here on recycling… I hope more people would do the same… at least to help reduce waste materials.
I wonder if this would work in my backyard tiki lamps???
I’ve used oil like this before. way back when I did a lot of camping. Cotton twine makes a great wick, if you do use tshirt strips, make sure it’s an all cotton shirt. Oil lamps date back to prehistoric times. There was a statement about being harmful. it’s not as harmful as kerosine and battries are not all that recyclable. One thing I would do. is filter the oil through a coffee filter or old knee high hose type sock to get the larger particals out of it.
I’m sorry, what’s a ‘tiki’?
tiki lamps are those yard torches that are up on sticks. Usually filled with Citronila oil.
I see. Perhaps it can. It has its own wick? It’s better really to sift/filter the oil several times to make it “cleaner” to make it lit longer. You can take Billie’s suggestions. You can also use old cotton socks to make filtering cleaner.
Regarding the “Tiki” lamps, works fine for me
Neat idea!
When I tried it, the wick (made from a 100% cotton tee-shirt) sloooowly burned down to a black nub, then went out completely. I tried making a looser-fitting wick, and punched several air holes in the bottle cap, but the same thing happened.
I am using soybean oil.
Anyone have a clue for me?
Thanks!
try something with thicker threads, cotton rope, maybe fiberglass torch wicking or oven/stove door gasketing, also fiberglass. You could try braiding the t-shirt strips into a tight braid to see if that helps…
If you wanted to purchase a wick, try a kerosine lantern wick. i’ts cotton YOu need the oil t soak the wicking first. strands of fiberglass will do that, if you can find it. Poly fiber melts as too low a tempture to be of any use.