It’s Fats, Oils, and Grease left over from food preparation and frequently washed down the sink drain. It could be located in both residential and industrial kitchens. It’s of special concern in commercial kitchens because of the massive quantity of FOG utilized to prepare meals every day.
When fats, oils, and grease are poured or flushed down your sinks, drains, or toilets they enter the sewer system where they cool, harden and stick to the inner walls of sewer pipes. Over time, as more fats, oils, and grease are added to the system, these sewer blockages build-up and harden until they completely plug the pipes. The hardness of the blockages makes them very difficult and costly to clean out.
FOG, or fats, oils, and grease, often come from fats left over from food preparation, packaged foods, and food scraps. Food including but not limited to:
You can put your cooking oil in a can after it has cooled to room temperature.
You can pour water, coffee, tea, and other non-greasy liquids.
You cannot pour any kind of grease down the drain since it clogs the pipes.
You cannot pour grease or oil based dressings and butter down the sink.
You can put your cooking oil in a can after it has cooled to room temperature.
You Can Not pour any kind of grease down the drain since it clogs the pipes.
You can pour water, coffee, tea, and other non-greasy liquids.
You Can Not pour grease or oil based dressings and butter down the sink.
Place cooled oil and grease into a can and place a top on it.
Scrape food scraps into trash bins instead of the garbage disposal.
Manually wipe off all visible fats, oils, grease and food residue from dishes and cookware into trash bins
Use a strainer in the sink to collect excess food particles.
Encourage neighbors to help keep FOG out of the sewer system.
Repeat.
Fats, Oils, and Grease can block your pipes by cutting your water flow, thus causing the water to back up at the source and further down the pipes.
Thus the solution to this is canning you fats, oils, and grease in a can.
Do your part by canning the FOG.
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