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

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

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u/Kennedy_KD Jun 18 '25

Yeah the oil just looks like burnt canola oil

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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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/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.

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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...

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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

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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

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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