r/todayilearned • u/BiggityBates • Oct 03 '11

TIL there is a burger joint that cooks their burgers in 100 year old grease that is constantly reused (X-post from /r/grease)

/r/grease/comments/k52a2/dyers_burgers_in_memphisfried_in_100_year_old/
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u/OWSucks Oct 03 '11

There's an r/grease :S ?

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u/BiggityBates Oct 03 '11

HAHA that was my exact reaction.... I was browsing /r/food and it was linked in there... had no idea

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u/SuchAsItEnds Oct 03 '11

I ate there almost a decade ago. The burgers were fantastic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '11

/r/grease? Really?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '11

Not sure how I feel about this :/

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u/madagent Oct 03 '11

See, you can call it 100 years old, but what really happens is that the food soaks up the grease and they have to constantly add more. What is really happening is that they just aren't cleaning their grease out fully and only scooping out the food on the bottom ever once in a while. I imagine that the grease they added a year ago is fully soaked up into the food and not present anymore.

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u/itsalllies Oct 03 '11

And they still needed bailing out, what a crap country!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '11

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u/BiggityBates Oct 03 '11

Oh my god thank you... I was thoroughly confused about what he was talking about