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Old 01-19-2003, 07:13 AM
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Commercial grease traps. Get them serviced professionally. To do it yourself is not unline cleaning out your own septic system - something you might know how to do but do you really want to do it yourself?
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Old 08-21-2008, 07:53 PM
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I have actually seen powders that solidify grease, my Japanese coworker told me about them and showed them to me at a Japanese market, apparently they are very popular and common to use in Japan. You could try looking for them at your local Japanese market.
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Old 08-21-2008, 10:16 PM
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I have read in the newspaper about grease being stolen--no kidding.

In some parts of the USA (as in this area), people steal barrels of grease to make biodiesel. Restaurants, at least some, get paid to have their grease hauled away instead of them paying the haulers. I'm not kidding.
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Old 08-22-2008, 12:44 AM
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Most municipalities have a rule of a MINIMUM of a 55 gal. per minute grease interceptor for any restaurant kitchen. It's not magic, just a big box with an inlet and an outlet and two or three screens and baffles. Greasy water goes in to the box, grease rises to the top, dirty-albeit grease free water goes down the drain. Depending on usage the crust of grease/crud needs to be removed every 3-4 mths. All sinks--including hand sinks, and mop sinks as well as floor drains and any other equipment and (kettles, tilt-skillts) MUST be hooked up to this as well--but NOT the dishwasher.

Many municipalities around here "suggest" that you open it and clean it out yourself one a month and have the "honey wagon" suck it out 2-3 times a year. And there's method to this madness: If you clean it out yourself, you know what is going down your drain, and might possibly, actually pay more attention to the dish pit. What do you do with the crud? Scoop it into a mayo bucket with a tight fitting lid and put into the dumpster.. Don't like mucking it out? Take a little more care, wipe out greasy sheet pans and cookware with wadded up newspaper first to get rid of most of the crud, and better yet have filter system in the dish pit to remove most of the solids before they even hit the grease trap.

ABOVE ALL do not use a garbage disposal unit and do not hook up a potato peeler directly to the grease trap, these things can wreak some serious damage to the whole sewer system.. And believe me, you do NOT want a city sewer worker showing up at your door with a "snake", a tiny video camera mounted on a cable that gets shoved down your lines for an inspection....

The whole thing grosses you out? There is the "Little dipper". It's a little box that has a series of rotating discs mounted in a platform that sits on the surface of the water in a smaller version of a grease trap. The little discs get "combed through" and the pure grease gets siphoned off into a container that you can sell or have picked up for free. This is about 3-4 times more expensive than a regular grease interceptor, but 3 times as more intelligent, and you don't need to pay the $2-$300 "honey dipper" charge every couple of months that you would for a regular grease interceptor

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Old 08-22-2008, 02:18 PM
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Cleaning the grease trap brings back bad memories I had to do it once a month when I worked fast food for a year. At home I dump the grease in my garden on top of the compost pile and mix it in. It degrades like the rest. another option for those without gardens is to fill an old ice cream pail with it and set it in the garbage.
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I've always heard to keep grease out of the compost. Clogs it up and slows down decomposition. Also contributes to water quality degradation as it leaches out of the compost pile.
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I've always heard to keep grease out of the compost. Clogs it up and slows down decomposition. Also contributes to water quality degradation as it leaches out of the compost pile.
this is correct. quick composting depends on oxygen getting into the pile and breaking things down. coating the pile with lard is not oxygen uptake friendly
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meats & fats are very likely to attract less welcome omnivores/carnivores to the compost heap.
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At our new restaurant they made us install a 1500gal. grease trap. We call it "The Lap Pool". Its got 2 manhole sized cleanouts on the top of it and big enough to park an SUV in. Oh the joys. And thats regardless of how much grease we will actually produce (very little). The city COULD HAVE made us install a 6000 gal. interceptor, but they gave us a variance because 1500 was all that would fit on our lot, nice, huh? To get the thing installed I had to pay for digging up and moving ours and the building next doors' water and sewer lines. And even though I wanted a Big Dipper the inspectors said no...
After spending all that money it sorta makes me want to open a fish and chips place just because I can!
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I use empty coffee cans to pour my grease in at home. I throw the can away when I empty a new coffee container. That way it does not get too full. I keep it under the kitchen sink. It stinks to high heaven, so it gets thrown away regularly. I hope that is ok.....?
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