In the city of shanghai it was reported that over.
Gutter oil fried meat.
Needless to say consuming foods that are fried with this dirty oil can be harmful to human health.
Gutter oil or illegally recycled cooking oil is often scooped up from sewage drains and gutters behind cooking establishments and then sold to small restaurants.
It can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
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In china gutter oil has been used to create products like soap rubber bio fuel plastics rooftops and cosmetics.
The gutter oil is also sometimes used to bulk out lard products image.
Gutter oil is a general term for oil that has been recycled.
I get a weird acidic almost chemical after taste in my mouth after eating cheap fried food made by chinese.
More broadly it also refers to oil refined from low quality pork and animal offal as well as oil overused for fried food.
So evidently the way it works is gutter oil makers root around in dumpsters trashcans sewers oh god sewers and of course gutters looking for used oil or discarded food or solid waste or.
It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and fatbergs.
Is this what gutter oil tastes like.
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The oil contains contaminants pathogens and other potentially lethal chemicals.