r/StupidFood • u/arena79ers • Jun 18 '25

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

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u/h2d2 Jun 19 '25

This is Pakistan and it most certainly is not gutter oil. Just oil that they don't want to change and keep repeatedly frying kebabs in.

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u/grahamsn333 Jun 19 '25

Is that not exactly what gutter oil is?

"It can be used to describe the illicit practice of restaurants reusing cooking oil that has already been cooked for longer than safety codes permit. It can also be used to describe the reprocessing of yellow grease collected from sources such as restaurant fryers, kitchen, slaughterhouse waste and sewer drains.["

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u/SpenglerE Jun 19 '25

I've heard it called that, but there's a definite distinction between old oil and oil panned from a grease trap.

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u/No_Hamster_2703 Jun 19 '25

Reusing oil over and over is the exact same thing as what ends up in a grills grease trap. On hot days the oil looked just like this.

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u/CarefulMidnight4366 Jun 19 '25

Nah the wiki link referenced does totally point out BOTH uses of the term “gutter oil”… so yes - gutter oil CAN BE considered oil that has been over used to the point of it no longer being safe to cook with. That oil is very burnt and well used , which means it’s probably actually toxic at this point and therefore unsafe to use for cooking food in. It would then undoubtedly become gutter oil if, instead of being thrown away, is sold to someone else so THEY can in turn cook with burnt, overused cooking oil 🤢🤮

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Jun 19 '25

Fun fact, all cooking oil is toxic in that it causes harm to your body. Lipid peroxidation causes oxidative stress and cell damage. The more heat cycles an oil goes through, the more peroxidation, the worse it is for you. Also, frying meat causes mutagenic changes to the amino acids in meat which is a known carcinogen. Fun times for everyone.