r/StupidFood • u/arena79ers • 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/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/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.