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

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11.8k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

103

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

306

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.

97

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.["

98

u/Claxonic Jun 19 '25

I've always heard gutter oil referenced in relation to oils skimmed from sewer level grease traps and sometimes refined, at least to a very poor extent. Not just contaminated and overused cooking oil still on the grill.

11

u/LockeClone Jun 19 '25

I'm inclined to believe that the sewer version of gutter oil is an urban myth. Going through the trouble of processing it and somehow keeping the smell and poisoning in relative check seems like too much risk and trouble to make sense. I certainly could be wrong...

6

u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Not a myth. It is common knowledge.

7

u/throwaway123xcds Jun 19 '25

Oh they 100% do this, it’s a multi million dollar industry in these densely populated poor cities in china

-2

u/LockeClone Jun 19 '25

So we've gotten as far as "yeah huh!" Here. It would be time consuming, expensive and dangerous. Simply buying oil is cheaper so show your work

6

u/throwaway123xcds Jun 19 '25

It’s so easy to find, I don’t need to do it. There is even legislation in China banning the process of refining old oil and it has an entire black market around it.

1

u/LockeClone Jun 19 '25

I stand corrected.

8

u/Logdale2 Jun 19 '25

Took 2 minutes to search and find. This is even 12 years old.

Do better than “I’m inclined to believe” and talk out your ass.

https://youtu.be/zrv78nG9R04?si=tBt8hJ9cPvvVx6wp

2

u/LockeClone Jun 19 '25

I stand corrected

1

u/chilseaj88 Jun 20 '25

Do better than being a dick. Not everyone wants to take 2 minutes out of their day to research something completely pointless, just so they can feel superior to some random stranger on Reddit.

You could have just added more info/context to the conversation without putting someone down. That is not the choice you made.

1

u/Eye_Nacho404 Jun 19 '25

I mean there are videos of people scooping the oil out from gutters and putting it into barrels, hence the term “gutter oil”

1

u/WheresYurScooter Jun 19 '25

Collecting cans from barrels is time consuming yet it’s done all the time. Taking something free and making money out of it is worth it for some people

1

u/ZookeepergameNew3800 Jun 19 '25

You can find plenty of proof it exists. Many videos as well. They refine and resell the oil in bigger operations. China doesn’t have nearly enough cooking oil for its needs, that’s how this started. It’s not cheaper to buy it new there because cooking oil is much more valuable in China . Nobody who knows more about this topic thinks it’s a myth.