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I usually just pour it over the rice or macaroni or whatever, to consume whatever little is there, so as not to waste it, and for flavor.

I try to fry stuff in tallow as well, which is a lot nicer IMO.

I pour it into a bowl. Once full ill freeze it then toss out on trash day

This depends on what kind of fat it is. Bacon fat I save, then clarify when there's enough, then use it for cooking.

A little bit of oil in the iron skillet? Pour kosher salt on it when it cools down enough, use the salt & oil to scrub it clean, wipe it out & rinse it (and dry of course).

Duck I render it first and save the fat, then finish cooking it.

I don't really deep fry so mostly what happens with other cooking oil is I eat it, in the food.

Stopped deep frying. Partly for health and partly out of laziness.

Sometimes I save it and put it in the fridge until the wet stuff separates from the fat. I then mix it with lye that I get from wood ash to make really shitty soap that's okish for doing dishes but not much else. You shouldn't put this in a washing machine because it will corrode the metal parts, you shouldn't wash yourself with it because its bad for your skin but I hope to get it to where I never have to buy dish soap again. Every single little consumer product that I can find a way to live without increases my chances of survival under this regime or at least extends things for as long as possible.

If I want to keep the fat, like from bacon, then I strain it through cheesecloth into a small jar and use it occasionally.

If I don't want it, then if it gets solid at room temp it gets to cool and be scraped into the bin. If it is a liquid at room temp it goes into a ziplock bag or something to keep it from leaking.

I pour it into an empty can and freeze it then eventually trash

Straight down the sink. It's a rental.

I don't cook with that much that there is relevant leftovers to begin with. I just wash my pan with soap and hot water.

I just wash my pan normally. The amount of leftover oil is negligible.

If I deep fry something (which I pretty much never do), I put in a glass jar and throw it into the bin.

Other than saving it for use later when possible, we let it solidify and scrap it into the trash.

Into a teacup, into the fridge, then when full and solidified, peeled out and thrown into the trash.

I pretty much use your method, although sometimes after making breakfast sausage, I will fill up the pan with soap and water and let it soak for maybe a day. Then, I will go outside and dump and kinda hose it off then take it back inside to wash in the sink proper.

paper, then boil

I don't have enough oil left over to bother doing something other than wash normally

if there's enough fat left, either cook more food in it, or wipe it with a paper towel. but that's rare

keep a rag bag handy and just wipe up cooking grease with those, them throw them in a pile next to the wood stove

you end up needing the oily rags to wipe down the wood stove anyway or else it will rust

Keep an extra can about for fat drippings.

Last meal's leftovers is to season the next meal

I also do paper towels for the bulk, though I try to do it while the pan is still a little warm, and may even heat the pan up a little if needed, so that if it's a fat that's solid at room temperature, I can treat it the same way as oil.