Vegetable Oil

[Iban]

I man the fryer at work, because I'm pro.
I take care of that fryer. The fryer and I are tight.

So when someone points out that the evaporation vent above the frying station has broken and there is a pile of goo building up, I spring into action to clean it up.



What you're seeing is precipitation. Vegetable oil heated at 350 degree Fahrenheit and set to run 24/7 for weeks will actually evaporate and collect on the ceiling of the fryer. This will then (slowly) run down and drip into a small irrigation channel that then runs down into a collection pan that is then dumped into the appropriate eco-friendly waste container (e.g. a loving massive barrel of gunk outside).

This starts out as a light green color. But, what you're seeing is so dense that light cannot pass through it. It amazes me. I was absolutely certain to show everyone. They enjoyed it profusely.


P.S. At work, we use a heavy-duty degreaser that will literally eat the flesh off your fingers. It still was not enough to effectively remove the majority of the goo.

[Ad Bot]

[otto-san]

So if we had an ocean made out of vegetable oil this stuff would rain down on us?

[Cheemo]

Wipe it on someone's rearview mirror.

[Jubel]

Where do you work?

[Coolio]

Woah.

[Joker Card]

At least you aren't bent over toilets cleaning stuff and piss off the ground. -_-

[captain blue]

eat it

[Meekl]

Put in toilet 
No wait, throw it at someone.

Wipe it on someone's rearview mirror.

YES

[Coolio]

Where do you work?

[Kilser]

Oh god.

[SeventhSandwich]

Where do you work?

[Riot]

 Put it into spaghetti, make black pasta.

[Azzurolix]

You could put radioactive waste in this, color it bright green and load it into a supersoaker.

Goop guns!

[soba]

Wipe it on someone's rearview mirror.

Lol'd

[Deathwish]

What you're seeing is partially oxidised grease, whilst it doesn't actually ignite, the heat still allows the unsaturated oils to oxidise to some degree. The fun thing about oils is that they don't really like dissolving in polar or non-polar solvents, but a mixture of the two, some sodium hydroxide in an emulsion of water and alcohol should do fine. If not, you could use hexane or some petrochemical non-polar solvent (don't use benzene, despite the fact it'll get that stuff off with ease, everyone will get cancer).

P.s: the spent grease makes an awesome fuel, if somewhat smokey. If that's a problem, just chuck some KNO₃ in it or something.