What do you all do with used cooking oil? Compost pile? Any thoughts are welcome Merry Christmas tom

-- tom (wysfarm@raex.com), December 22, 2001

Answers

Make fuel!!!!!

-- David R In TN. (srimmer@earthlink.net), December 22, 2001.

Hi Tom yes make bio diesel you can burn it in a oil stove if you dont have a diesel auto or truck. Bob se.ks.

-- Bobco (bobco@kans.com), December 22, 2001.

If you have a lot, this might be the site for you:

http://www.veggievan.org/

-- GT (nospam@nospam.com), December 22, 2001.

Mix it in the the feed for dogs, hogs, and chickens. Daryll

-- Daryll in NW FLA (twincrk@hotmail.com), December 23, 2001.

We mix it with dry dog food. It keeps their coats shiny and healthy. Nothing better!

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), December 23, 2001.

exelent for adding to the feed of any livestock high energy feed will help keep hens laying all through the winter mix it with the ground grain for poultry pigs and the dogs love it too

-- george darby (windwillow@fuse.net), December 23, 2001.

I had the idea of using used cooking oil to preserve round baled hay. Apply it over uncovered hay bales to repel water. Only problem is I think it would rot before the hay is used up especially if it was used or stored over summer. I guess there might be a preservative you could add? I also chop my bales (mostly) so no one animal would get too much. You certainly can feed it if you know it's source and it isn't the artificial polymer stuff. Or did they finally ban that stuff?

-- Ross (amulet@istar.ca), December 23, 2001.

I've made suet cakes for the birds with mine. Add some scratch (or birdseed), oatmeal, cornmeal, peanut butter, raisins, sunflower seeds until sticky. I use the cheap ziploc containers, the square ones and press in about 1 1/2 inches of mixture. Then I freeze it. Pull out and pop into a square suet feeder and the birds love it! We even get Grosebeaks to come for this.

-- Michelle in NM (mtndwellers@sulphurcanyon.com), December 23, 2001.

How about using that oil to make homemade soap? Run a search on Google and you will probably find some recipes using oil instead of lard.

-- Phillip Rhoads (philliprhoads@aol.com), December 24, 2001.

Yes you can make soap with used oil but it's not as good as using fresh oil. What ever it was used for might contaminate the recipe. Plus the smell might come through. Strained and with a good strong scent it might work very well.

-- Ross (amulet@istar.ca), December 25, 2001.

Pour it through a coffee filter into a bucket of sand. Use it to clean off your gardening tools (but put a lid on it when not in use in case the oil smell attracts scavengers.) Better to my mind than using used car oil, which could pollute the soil and water.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), December 25, 2001.