Coldplay, (what can I say)!? Tour sponsorship.

[Mr Gus]

My wife bought me a Coldplay CD some years back, it has never been played..

Coldplay labelled ‘useful idiots for greenwashing’ after deal with oil company

Snippet: "Neste claims to be the world’s largest producer of sustainable biofuels, but the firm’s palm oil suppliers cleared at least 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) of forest in countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia between 2019 and 2020, according a study by Friends of the Earth"


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... il-company

On an aside, how many of us properly recycle our cooking oils, ..how could we make it easier?

[AE-NMidlands]

On an aside, how many of us properly recycle our cooking oils, ..how could we make it easier?

We don't because we don't have any to recycle. Some olive oil or veg oil goes into making bread and starting meat meals off if we are frying onions or whatever first, but we probably use more lard and beef dripping for things other than bread. If lots of fat comes out of mince at the frying stage I drain it off into a small pot to start the next meal.

We re-commissioned the chip pan (with dripping) for a better-cooked batch of food than the oven gives, so that is relatively long-lived, and the level goes down slowly - so no waste there either.

[Moxi]

Hi Mr Gus,

I'm in the same camp as AE, we dont generally use cooking oil unless its the 5ml that goes in the air fryer for the chips (if we do sausages or anything before hand then the fat from that is used) so theres no residual fat, cooking meat fats are either made in to dripping for cooking or eating on bread instead of butter (maybe thats just an old Yorkshire thing?)

Any large quantity of fat from say a chicken is drained and mixed with saw dust, lint and cardboard to make home made fire lighters - but thats not very often that we have enough fat to do that.

Palm oil! urghh I used to eat a lot of biscuits but when I read about the damage the palm oil industry was doing to the environment and the dubious health issues that could be associated with palm oil I more or less cut them out, I have the occasional relapse but currently back on the "no biscuits wagon"

Moxi

[Mr Gus]

Cheers lads,

I didn't realise (stupidly) that food oils Inc animal fats, we're used in reclamation for (as per the piece) jet fuel.

We have fats from all sorts (a lot of which is re-used in the next cook) & monsieur le Tank (the xl frenchie) bags sous vide juices or he gets moody!
But as we are now back from 1, to 2 dogs (not 4 as was) there is an excess, & whilst butter is my favourite caramelisation form for finishing, there are times when there is new oil (sunflower, olive) which I really need to look into straining & getting to our tip collection point, esp with Ukraine pressure.

Wife cleans fry pan too often.
I did try coffee filtering fat/oil the other day but it clogged before it has finished.

[Stinsy]

I too stopped using vegetable oil. Read too many articles about how harmful it is (to people and the environment). Pretty much everything is cooked in butter or drippin in our house. We were surprised to find our energy levels increased and our waistlines reduced switching to the kind of fats our grandparents would have used...

[Mr Gus]

Olive oil (pure) I enjoy, but in the main butter, ..don't hate me, but tonight we sous vide the delicious veggie burgers I've mentioned her before (Smokey paprika, yum) having made nipper some pork noodles in the wok, I banged the bacon grease in for the veggie burgers brief caramelisation, I must commend m&s cheese topped rolls for the job good density whilst remaining soft, wham in the salad.

It's the rape oil you need to insist people stay away from as a starter for 10 (canola is rapeseed too) ..it's the bleached anus of the food oil world.
Sesame oil ? ..please don't tell me that's a bad un

Our sunflower oil is perhaps a litre every 10 months, but Ukraine has got the wind up me (5 litres set aside)

[Stinsy]

Rapeseed and sunflower oils are the worst of all possible worlds. Cut them out and you’ll see noticeable health improvements very quickly.

Olive oil is fine (even beneficial) so long as it is genuine, first pressing, and isn’t heated. However fraud is rampant in the oilve oil industry so who knows what is in that green bottle you buy in the supermarket.

Sesame oil is very high in omega-6 so best avoided.

[Mr Gus]

Aw, stinsy!

At least bacon is scientifically proven to not only taste good, part of the superfood group AND make me irresistible to the ladies eh!

[AE-NMidlands]

Hi Mr Gus,
Any large quantity of fat from say a chicken is drained and mixed with saw dust, lint and cardboard to make home made fire lighters - but thats not very often that we have enough fat to do that.

Palm oil! urghh I used to eat a lot of biscuits but when I read about the damage the palm oil industry was doing to the environment and the dubious health issues that could be associated with palm oil I more or less cut them out, I have the occasional relapse but currently back on the "no biscuits wagon"
Moxi

I found that almost all biscuits have palm oil in them so I have mostly weaned myself off them - and now eat plain Scottish oatcakes, which are very nice and slightly sweet too. The Nairn's cheese ones are even better! For an occasional treat I have (all) butter shortbread. No expense spared, you see!

I discovered that chicken fat was called (or just "is") schmaltz in Yiddish. Hence schmaltzy music etc. However I can't find a recipe using it, I would guess that it was put in cakes or biscuits from the connotation. I don't want to experiment in case I ruin a batch of something! (It might be that it was what you used when you had no alternative, even if the outcome did taste odd!)
A

[Moxi]

Energised by your comments AE,

I found this:

https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how- ... t-0160956/

Lots of other pages with similar information but this one seemed a good read and had some nice ideas (fried bread option especially!) - suffice to say I wont be making fire lighters out of chicken fat any longer as its got higher value option that i wasnt aware of until prompted to look by AE.

I did know that the chicken fat in fast food outlets is used to flavour the gravy so theres another use if you like that sort of thing

Moxi