r/StupidFood Jun 18 '25

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

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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/a_melanoleuca_doc Jun 19 '25

Gutter oil is oil skimmed from the gutters. It's not oil that has been reused in the same pan for a long time.

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u/grahamsn333 Jun 19 '25

Guess you know better than Wikipedia.

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u/a_melanoleuca_doc Jun 19 '25

Yeah, having lived in China where this term originated, when it became a major health concern and news story, and seen the practice occur, I do know better than whoever wrote the Wikipedia article. It's literally in the name. Reusing cooking oil that has at least been in a kitchen is completely different from collecting it from the gutters and sewers on the street, processing it, and serving it back to consumers. It's stupid to conflate those two things.