The 25 gallon grease trap in the video is specifically an under the sink unit, which is why I found it bizarre to be outside. Most “regular” grease traps are outside, in the ground, and are 500-2,000 gallons
In Spain the government uses recycled grease and oil to make biofuels for running public transport and things like that, also for producing electricity
Probably an adaptation. Restaurant was probably built before grease traps became mandatory. And when the code was updated, this was probably all that was required, before code was updated again to what you normally encounter.
As a plumbing designer, I can tell you the two main reasons for putting it outdoors are 1) those things really stink when you open them up full of grease. 2) they’re much easier to pump out with the hose, then putting them indoors. That being said, you’re right about its size the standard locally where I am in North Carolina is a 1000 gallon minimum size. The plumbing code was revised a few years ago to require a 30 minute retention time in the calculation and that translates to more of a 1200 gallon tank. This little unit should probably never have more than 3 inches deep of grease. Much more than that it’s going to start losing its effectiveness and could result in Greece overflow. And that can get you a nice fine if there’s an accidental discharge of grease.
In South Carolina we have small units like this that get pumped every month. The big ones underground get pumped about every 6 months or as needed. Unfortunately some get neglected and they call us after it backs up or the city spots it.
Idk anything about this industry, how can that fail? Isn't it just a big metal tub? The one in the video is only 2 feet deep and fully full of grease and didn't fail, so what is the risk?
@ Fair question. The criteria of failure proper function or failure is that it removes 95% of the fat/oil/grease content of the mixture flowing into it when the water flowing out is tested (per the National Plumbing Drainage Institute standards) there is another ANSI standard as well. The standard concrete unit has 1,000 gallon capacity with about 6” worth of grease on top max. When the grease floats to the surface, and the layer gets too thick on top, it simply cannot separate any more out and it passes through the grease interceptor and out into the sewer. Then the grease finds any solids, coalesces around it and cools into a nasty grease ball clogging up the public sewer. It especially loves to find flushable wipes that really aren’t flushable. All the city has to do is find the local restaurants, check their grease traps, and the loser gets a nice fine. In addition, grease is very high acid and can eat at concrete drainage pipe. A local college town told me that all the restaurants on the Main Street had overflows of grease over the years and they had to dig up and replace the main sewer lines. And those big epoxy coated metal tubs can get eaten up in about 5-8 years. The newer cross- linked polyethylene units are expensive but will last a lifetime.
I’ve worked in 2 restaurants that had grease traps this size, if it was mandatory that they were that big no small restaurants would be around out here.
@ Some municipalities allow the small ones but there must be one for each three compartment or prep sink. And the Plumbing Code gas changed over the years. So if you tried to build those same restaurants today, they may not allow those small units anymore.
@bard4uu not the poster but I worked at a tool shop next door to a pizza place and it would stink up the whole neighborhood when they'd get their grease trap pumped. It smells like death, it's literally rancid oil that's breaking down and rotting. Next time you make bacon, take a small container and scoop some bacon grease in there and seal the lid and let it bake out in the sun for a few days, you'll know the smell of rancid grease lol
It's the national park from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. Still one of the best tracks ever released in the series IMO, especially hanging out in the park at night by the fountain.
@@ibooferthis is making me want to play some old gen 2 Pokemon. Maybe heart gold/soul silver or some romhack. It makes me so nostalgic for my childhood.
The best greasetraps ive seen are outside but usually buried like a septic tank. Easy/clean access.... The ones under sinks are great for smaller places like delis and such... But a place putting out hundreds of plates a day need something larger. Not having people in our industry traipse through the kitchen is imo optimal...
The first job I ever had was working on a septic tank truck. And I can tell you from firsthand experience grease traps smell worse than a septic tanks.
@@davidhenderson3400 there is no way man. I worked at a thai restaraunt and had to scoop out a grease trap by hand (with a bucket). You will not convince me that rotting human feces and piss is better.
I recently did work on a house at a guy built back in the 60s mostly by himself. The shocking thing I came into contact with not one p-trap in either of the two structures on the property he calls houses. Instead they have in the sub areas no basements mind you is those type of grease traps. I've never seen anything like them, they are an absolute nightmare to deal with. I had to cut three of them out and replace them with straight pipe and then go in and put p-traps under the sinks. I did not get involved with p-trap in the toilet or the bathtub because I'm not a plumber. And that wasn't the issue the issue is where I cut them out because they were completely plugged up and backing up the water into the house.. there is no snake that would ever get through there because of the way they were designed.. I took pictures and I actually took the actual parts down to a couple plumbing supply houses and they didn't know what the hell I had in my hand. Until I told them and the only reason I told them is because the homeowner told me what they were.. the first question to ask is this a commercial restaurant😂😂😂 No A Home
Most fast food places in Texas keep them outside by the dumpsters. I used to be a pressure washer for a Company that did all of the Whataburger parking lots in Texas and Oklahoma and i did almost every single store from the midpoint of Texas all the way into Oklahoma on a fairly regular basis. And they all had their traps outside. I assumed it was code and that they had to have it there.
in Italy where I do the same job it's fairly common to have them outside, but usually grease traps are at least 1000l (250 gals). And yes I've see a grease trap thicker than this one, it was so thick it made me legit doubt if actual concrete was poured in to fill it because it had become obsolete but after poking the surface with hammer and chisel I confirmed it was, in fact, grease.
@almazingsk8er way easier to clean when it's solidified, if you heated it it would melt, you risk getting grease burns, the grease would probably end up spilling over the top because (I might be completely wrong about this) I think as it solidifies it takes up less space, so when it remelts it'd overflow. Also when the grease melts it's nearly frigging impossible to wipe it off of walls and surfaces, it'd be a way longer and more difficult job.
I used to work in restaurants, and when they would come by to clean the grease traps. My god that smell. Death might be the only thing that smells worse than a grease trap. Godspeed brother.
Once worked for a cleaning company that had us clean three of these and dump it down the customers sink drains or out into city rainwater drains. I imagine he’s still doing it n making money for it. Dudes a piece of work.
Many, many grease traps are located outside, usually due to not originally being put inside so a retrofit is more accessible, less expensive, faster than putting one in after the fact. Also hygiene, insect reasons for it to not inside under a sink. It also takes longer for the outside one to need cleaning and it's less disruptive to inside work.
Worked a combined grease/septic pumping job for about a year. Money was rock solid but my back and shoulder are still shot from slinging hose Worst of them is when it's an unmarked 6k gal trap. You need a trailer, they don't make trucks big enough for them. The residue from the last cleaning will re solidify and become caked over and over again because the contract is never updated. After a few years of this, you'll just never be able to clean it in the time allotted, not enough water in the pressure washer, if you can even cut the grease. You can back pump to try to slurry some of it, but after the third try, you pump out as much solid grease as you can before you give up and head back to the plant to offload and continue your night, and hope the annotation about the trap being oversized gets read by the dispatching crew, even if you know it won't.
I used to do commercial tile work. I did a lot of restaurant kitchens. When the pump trucks would show up at 3 or 4 in the morning OH MY GOD it smelled so bad it would make you puke. I never did but I seen several people who did. I hope i never smell it again.
When I was stationed at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma, they had giant outdoor grease traps for their mess halls. Every few weeks, they would assign a detail of soldiers that were drafted, to go into these traps wearing chest waders and shovel out the grease into 55 gallon drums, which were purchased by local farmers for their use. That had to be the most foul-smelling thing I ever had to do. The flies were horrendous. Funny how only draftees were picked.
Grease getting into sewer lines is no joke. I used to work as a cook at sonic and we had a dumpster completely dedicated to used grease. We had to get a truck to pump it all out and dispose of it elsewhere.
I just replaced one. Looked just like that. When I dug it out of the ground, all the cat iron pipes were rotted. Had to cut out floors and everything. This was part of the strip mall. So the bathrooms had to be redone. It was an expensive project for the property owner. All started when the plumbing inspector said they had to upgrade their grease interceptor... Nasty business.
Living in Texas for 27 years a lot of grease traps are outside in rural areas five or six of the restaurants in the area where I used to live had outdoor grease traps and they all end up like that they are not fun to clean I only know of one location that ever had a decent cleanable grease trap and that's because they actually had it drained once a month
Alright I thought I was going crazy, I knew I realized exactly what that music in the background was The national park track. From pokemon HG/SS. Crazy to hear a 15 year old track. Crazy nostalgic choice.
My first job was at a local gas station deli cutting grass for $10 each cut. One day, the owner asked if i wanted to clean out the grease trap and offered me $20. "Easy money" i thought, naively. Little did I know what hell awaited me out back of the little service station. When i cracked the lid on that foetid pot of woe, I got hit with a smell somewhere between rotting corpse and simmering diarrhea. When i finally finished 45 min later i had lost about 15lbs in vomit and sweat, a pair of vans eternally tainted by funk, and a large chunk of my dignity. I earned that $20, but what I lost was far greater. You are a strong strong man to be doing this as a profession.
Some 40 years ago I worked at McDonald's and they didn't have a grease strap. The grill at a slot in the middle which you took out and poured into a 55 gallon drums in the back. The grease from the fryers was poured into those drums. And a renderer came and took all that away
I was part of a crew that did the groundwork for a massive compound being built by Tibetan monks here in Canada, and the grease trap we installed for the kitchen was a 5000 gallon tank. It was the biggest tank I’ve seen in my life. It took our John Deere 350 to lift the pieces in, and it was everything it could handle. Even worse, the surveyors had us put it in the wrong spot, so we spent hours heating the ramneck with torches to take it apart and move it. I will never forget scraping all that hot tar off the underside of that massive tank cover in 30°C heat.
I’ve worked in several different restaurants and I’ve never seen one outside or that big either. They’ve always been little boxes under the sink and a few of them the owner or manager cleaned them out twice a year.
Theres a chicken processing plant in the city near where i live and anytime you drive by that place it can stink pretty bad... But Grease? GREASE... Grease smells worse than 100 skunks if you dont have a strong stomach then.... rip.
I remember working across the street from this one catering facility, we had our shop doors open the day the owner had the grease trap pumped out, and the wind shifted just enough to catch a whiff... 😵🤢☠️ That'll make your nose hairs curl sheesh! Hope you're getting board enough to do that.
In most places these tiny grease traps no longer meet the code requirements for a comercial business. Also, if youve ever had to clean one out under a sink by hand because the local pumpers wont run their shit to the inside of the building, you know exactly why they put that crap outside. In MI where i live, you cant put em outside without them freezing and breaking, so most run much larger systems that tank the crap outside anyway, but older buildings sometimes still can be found with these. Wildly enough, many restaurants in MI get away with running NO GREASE TRAP because theyre on septic, since releasing grease into your own septic isnt illegal, just discharging it into public water is.
A lot of grease traps are outside where I live. Only difference is they are usually underground. The indoor grease traps are in the floor in a containment system until valley proteins comes to pump it out
what about an automation design? fat solidifies pretty quickly after it's heated, have a heat trap that shuts off when the stove cuts off, let the fat solidify into a block, clear it every day instead of monthly, just because it's designed to work that easily
Typically if they buffet food the amount of food that is produced is higher. Bigger grease traps. Also it is easier to keep running the restaurant and keeps the smell down if it’s serviced outside. Also we got our grease trap pumped out every 6 months.
I've worked with this kind off work in Portugal, you actually get fined if once you called the services it has gone over the limit.... And we use it to make biodieselz so you pay the company hundreds of dollars to clean it's and then they turn it into fuel and sell it to you 😂, and in Portugal at least 5% of any diesel must be bio diesel
I used to work as a dishwasher at some family resteraunt. I had to clean their grease trap every other week with a shop vac and it was horrendous. The smell... I thank these men for their service seriously
COCONUT OIL WILL DO THIS TO YOUR SHOWER!! I HAD IT HAPPEN AND LEARNED THE HARD WAY.. i use coconut oil for everything. Hair, cooking, skin, lips, scalp.. ❤
Use to work at a General Casey’s convenience store and we didn’t have the grease trap in the kitchen either. For some reason it was outside but this is very northern USA on the IL and WI border so they don’t really get scorching hot days but maybe a few days in the summer. Idk, but I’ll tell you, with it being outside, it was always forgotten to be cleaned. Our store employees were to clean it rather than a company. Not really sure why but I only seen that thing get cleaned once in the year I worked there.
I used to wash dishes back in the 90's and the restaurant had a very small grease trap outside. We had to use a shopvac and vacuum it out a couple of times a week.
For those who do not know why owners put these outside, and because this guy will not tell you, it is because the stuff inside can smell similar to a dead, rotting body, or raw sewage. It reeks so badly, it will burn your sinuses and make you want to vomit. No one will want to eat inside the restaurant because of the horrific smell coming from the kitchen. I have cleaned a few in my time working in kitchens with these under the sinks. Once they get full, and start to smell, you will not want to be in the kitchen. I would clean them at the end of the day, just so we could open the doors and air the building out.
We had one under our pot wash, it was cleaned every week, was the only task I never enjoyed doing, you’d have to open it, throw in a load of what can only be described as sawdust, and then scoop the congealed mixture into a blue pale for recycling/disposal.
Installed a new one last week, Theyre now a underground concrete structure with a divider wall in the middle thats supposed to hold the grease in one side & allow the rest to flow freely into the septic line. Around 6 foot deep 10 foot wide, But this was for a new apartment complex in the city that will have multiple restaurants in the bottom floor of it so they may make smaller.
Jfc i uave cleaned them by hand when i worked at a place when i was a kid. We had one like this in the closet. The smell is very unique and we never let it get that bad lol.
The 25 gallon grease trap in the video is specifically an under the sink unit, which is why I found it bizarre to be outside. Most “regular” grease traps are outside, in the ground, and are 500-2,000 gallons
In Spain the government uses recycled grease and oil to make biofuels for running public transport and things like that, also for producing electricity
@@IberianCraftsmanPretty clever 😊
Aye yes!! And grease traps smell like my neighbor!!!.,..
Probably an adaptation. Restaurant was probably built before grease traps became mandatory. And when the code was updated, this was probably all that was required, before code was updated again to what you normally encounter.
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Better than the Tyson Paul fight is crazy but true.
That fight was so disappointing. So many people wanted Tyson to win via KO. Myself included.
@@aflabbergastedturtleI couldn't even get to it because it wouldn't load
The bar is so low.
@@RealDavidChipman like shaking keys at a baby
Seriously what a joke.
As a plumbing designer, I can tell you the two main reasons for putting it outdoors are
1) those things really stink when you open them up full of grease. 2) they’re much easier to pump out with the hose, then putting them indoors.
That being said, you’re right about its size the standard locally where I am in North Carolina is a 1000 gallon minimum size.
The plumbing code was revised a few years ago to require a 30 minute retention time in the calculation and that translates to more of a 1200 gallon tank.
This little unit should probably never have more than 3 inches deep of grease. Much more than that it’s going to start losing its effectiveness and could result in Greece overflow. And that can get you a nice fine if there’s an accidental discharge of grease.
In South Carolina we have small units like this that get pumped every month. The big ones underground get pumped about every 6 months or as needed. Unfortunately some get neglected and they call us after it backs up or the city spots it.
Idk anything about this industry, how can that fail? Isn't it just a big metal tub? The one in the video is only 2 feet deep and fully full of grease and didn't fail, so what is the risk?
@ Fair question. The criteria of failure proper function or failure is that it removes 95% of the fat/oil/grease content of the mixture flowing into it when the water flowing out is tested (per the National Plumbing Drainage Institute standards) there is another ANSI standard as well. The standard concrete unit has 1,000 gallon capacity with about 6” worth of grease on top max.
When the grease floats to the surface, and the layer gets too thick on top, it simply cannot separate any more out and it passes through the grease interceptor and out into the sewer. Then the grease finds any solids, coalesces around it and cools into a nasty grease ball clogging up the public sewer. It especially loves to find flushable wipes that really aren’t flushable. All the city has to do is find the local restaurants, check their grease traps, and the loser gets a nice fine.
In addition, grease is very high acid and can eat at concrete drainage pipe.
A local college town told me that all the restaurants on the Main Street had overflows of grease over the years and they had to dig up and replace the main sewer lines. And those big epoxy coated metal tubs can get eaten up in about 5-8 years. The newer cross- linked polyethylene units are expensive but will last a lifetime.
I’ve worked in 2 restaurants that had grease traps this size, if it was mandatory that they were that big no small restaurants would be around out here.
@ Some municipalities allow the small ones but there must be one for each three compartment or prep sink.
And the Plumbing Code gas changed over the years. So if you tried to build those same restaurants today, they may not allow those small units anymore.
That pokemon music in the background is peak
Came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed
HG/SS - National Park
Soul Silver was my first game. Lots of good nostalgia just from the music!!
First thing I noticed
Brought an insane amount of memories and good feels back ❤ cannot wait for new Pokemon game coming at beginning of new year 2025.
I used to pump these out and this video brought me right back. I STARTED GAGGING LOL
Ive had them overflow in the kitchens of restaurants ive worked at and it's probably the worst smell ive ever come across 😅
Pavlov's grease
Same but we did it every week not every 3 months lol
what does it smell like?
@bard4uu not the poster but I worked at a tool shop next door to a pizza place and it would stink up the whole neighborhood when they'd get their grease trap pumped. It smells like death, it's literally rancid oil that's breaking down and rotting. Next time you make bacon, take a small container and scoop some bacon grease in there and seal the lid and let it bake out in the sun for a few days, you'll know the smell of rancid grease lol
12/10 for the pokemon bgm 👌
Love it
National park theme hits 🔥
My guy is cultured af
Came here for this . Welcome my brothers 🫂
Was literally playing HG right now lmao
"This is better than the Tyson Paul fight" had me 😂😂
It wasn’t that funny
I can smell that through the phone jesus i hate grease traps
same they smell absolutely horrific, first time i smelt one i about threw up
Smells like Money!
@@Kassiem_42 They smell like an actual rotting corpse covered in shit
Same 😭 it reminded me of my first task on my first job
Had to clean satans anus once a week on the cruise ship 🤢🤮
THIS SONG IS SOOO GOOD!
It's the national park from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. Still one of the best tracks ever released in the series IMO, especially hanging out in the park at night by the fountain.
@@ibooferthis is making me want to play some old gen 2 Pokemon. Maybe heart gold/soul silver or some romhack. It makes me so nostalgic for my childhood.
I like the relaxing pokemon music. Really distracts from the nasty grease
We cleaned ours out every other Sunday where I worked. Took maybe 10 mins. Def worth it now that I see how bad the buildup can get.
I am so grateful that smell doesn't come through devices.
I didn't realize you could get vivid smell memory as an intrusive thought until this video
The best greasetraps ive seen are outside but usually buried like a septic tank. Easy/clean access....
The ones under sinks are great for smaller places like delis and such...
But a place putting out hundreds of plates a day need something larger.
Not having people in our industry traipse through the kitchen is imo optimal...
Used to work where we had to empty grease into a bin. That smell is a whole different beast
Bro tell me about it 🤢🤢
The first job I ever had was working on a septic tank truck. And I can tell you from firsthand experience grease traps smell worse than a septic tanks.
If you do it on a weekly basis, it's not that bad, maybe like sour-musty-sweaty socks would be the worst.
That grease contains all the best flavors 😋😋
@@davidhenderson3400 there is no way man. I worked at a thai restaraunt and had to scoop out a grease trap by hand (with a bucket). You will not convince me that rotting human feces and piss is better.
I recently did work on a house at a guy built back in the 60s mostly by himself. The shocking thing I came into contact with not one p-trap in either of the two structures on the property he calls houses. Instead they have in the sub areas no basements mind you is those type of grease traps. I've never seen anything like them, they are an absolute nightmare to deal with. I had to cut three of them out and replace them with straight pipe and then go in and put p-traps under the sinks. I did not get involved with p-trap in the toilet or the bathtub because I'm not a plumber. And that wasn't the issue the issue is where I cut them out because they were completely plugged up and backing up the water into the house.. there is no snake that would ever get through there because of the way they were designed.. I took pictures and I actually took the actual parts down to a couple plumbing supply houses and they didn't know what the hell I had in my hand. Until I told them and the only reason I told them is because the homeowner told me what they were.. the first question to ask is this a commercial restaurant😂😂😂 No A Home
Most fast food places in Texas keep them outside by the dumpsters. I used to be a pressure washer for a Company that did all of the Whataburger parking lots in Texas and Oklahoma and i did almost every single store from the midpoint of Texas all the way into Oklahoma on a fairly regular basis. And they all had their traps outside. I assumed it was code and that they had to have it there.
in Italy where I do the same job it's fairly common to have them outside, but usually grease traps are at least 1000l (250 gals). And yes I've see a grease trap thicker than this one, it was so thick it made me legit doubt if actual concrete was poured in to fill it because it had become obsolete but after poking the surface with hammer and chisel I confirmed it was, in fact, grease.
What he’s saying is that one this small is normally inside the building.
O_O
I didn't know grease could solidify like that. That's kind of terrifying.
Alright I might be silly asking this: does applying heat not help break it up? Is it too difficult to melt it enough to be worth it?
@almazingsk8er way easier to clean when it's solidified, if you heated it it would melt, you risk getting grease burns, the grease would probably end up spilling over the top because (I might be completely wrong about this) I think as it solidifies it takes up less space, so when it remelts it'd overflow. Also when the grease melts it's nearly frigging impossible to wipe it off of walls and surfaces, it'd be a way longer and more difficult job.
Oil, heat, fire, @@almazingsk8er.
I used to work in restaurants, and when they would come by to clean the grease traps. My god that smell. Death might be the only thing that smells worse than a grease trap. Godspeed brother.
It basically IS death. It's fat from animals...Dead ones. 😆
It's truly a horrific smell. Ruined my day when I'd be in the kitchen and see them wheel in the machine to clean the grease traps.
It's honestly horrific. Especially in the summer. 🤮
Once worked for a cleaning company that had us clean three of these and dump it down the customers sink drains or out into city rainwater drains. I imagine he’s still doing it n making money for it. Dudes a piece of work.
Wtf!
Has greasy palms lol
Many, many grease traps are located outside, usually due to not originally being put inside so a retrofit is more accessible, less expensive, faster than putting one in after the fact. Also hygiene, insect reasons for it to not inside under a sink. It also takes longer for the outside one to need cleaning and it's less disruptive to inside work.
Worked a combined grease/septic pumping job for about a year. Money was rock solid but my back and shoulder are still shot from slinging hose
Worst of them is when it's an unmarked 6k gal trap. You need a trailer, they don't make trucks big enough for them. The residue from the last cleaning will re solidify and become caked over and over again because the contract is never updated. After a few years of this, you'll just never be able to clean it in the time allotted, not enough water in the pressure washer, if you can even cut the grease. You can back pump to try to slurry some of it, but after the third try, you pump out as much solid grease as you can before you give up and head back to the plant to offload and continue your night, and hope the annotation about the trap being oversized gets read by the dispatching crew, even if you know it won't.
I used to do commercial tile work. I did a lot of restaurant kitchens. When the pump trucks would show up at 3 or 4 in the morning OH MY GOD it smelled so bad it would make you puke. I never did but I seen several people who did. I hope i never smell it again.
I remember when my middle school had theirs pumped out after a way too ling time of not doing so... you could smell it from 3 blocks away 😅
Here I am, seated in the park at night, accompanied by that background music.
Of all the music u could have picked, u decided to go with the National Park theme from GSC/HGSS
When I was stationed at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma, they had giant outdoor grease traps for their mess halls. Every few weeks, they would assign a detail of soldiers that were drafted, to go into these traps wearing chest waders and shovel out the grease into 55 gallon drums, which were purchased by local farmers for their use. That had to be the most foul-smelling thing I ever had to do. The flies were horrendous.
Funny how only draftees were picked.
Grease getting into sewer lines is no joke. I used to work as a cook at sonic and we had a dumpster completely dedicated to used grease. We had to get a truck to pump it all out and dispose of it elsewhere.
Everything is better than the Tyson v. Paul fight
I just replaced one. Looked just like that. When I dug it out of the ground, all the cat iron pipes were rotted. Had to cut out floors and everything. This was part of the strip mall. So the bathrooms had to be redone.
It was an expensive project for the property owner. All started when the plumbing inspector said they had to upgrade their grease interceptor... Nasty business.
Living in Texas for 27 years a lot of grease traps are outside in rural areas five or six of the restaurants in the area where I used to live had outdoor grease traps and they all end up like that they are not fun to clean I only know of one location that ever had a decent cleanable grease trap and that's because they actually had it drained once a month
Make sure to regularly clean your exhaust hood grease trap. That being forgotten is one of the most common reasons why restaurants burn down.
National Park theme hit me in the feels, didn't hear a word you said.
Alright I thought I was going crazy, I knew I realized exactly what that music in the background was
The national park track. From pokemon HG/SS. Crazy to hear a 15 year old track.
Crazy nostalgic choice.
My first job was at a local gas station deli cutting grass for $10 each cut. One day, the owner asked if i wanted to clean out the grease trap and offered me $20. "Easy money" i thought, naively. Little did I know what hell awaited me out back of the little service station. When i cracked the lid on that foetid pot of woe, I got hit with a smell somewhere between rotting corpse and simmering diarrhea. When i finally finished 45 min later i had lost about 15lbs in vomit and sweat, a pair of vans eternally tainted by funk, and a large chunk of my dignity. I earned that $20, but what I lost was far greater. You are a strong strong man to be doing this as a profession.
Actually, I worked at a McDonald's for many years where I live in the SW, and the grease trap was always kept it outside.
Yeah but McDonald’s probably has a service that drains it regularly to keep up with sanitation this restaurant did not
Some 40 years ago I worked at McDonald's and they didn't have a grease strap. The grill at a slot in the middle which you took out and poured into a 55 gallon drums in the back. The grease from the fryers was poured into those drums. And a renderer came and took all that away
@ yeah but they are a billion dollar company from what I remember I think they have grease traps now, my friends who worked there hated cleaning it
I was part of a crew that did the groundwork for a massive compound being built by Tibetan monks here in Canada, and the grease trap we installed for the kitchen was a 5000 gallon tank. It was the biggest tank I’ve seen in my life. It took our John Deere 350 to lift the pieces in, and it was everything it could handle. Even worse, the surveyors had us put it in the wrong spot, so we spent hours heating the ramneck with torches to take it apart and move it. I will never forget scraping all that hot tar off the underside of that massive tank cover in 30°C heat.
Netflix has nothing on that grease trap!!!😂😂😂
I’ve worked in several different restaurants and I’ve never seen one outside or that big either. They’ve always been little boxes under the sink and a few of them the owner or manager cleaned them out twice a year.
It looks like lasagna
Forbidden lasagna
Gave you a like for the G&S track in the background
Theres a chicken processing plant in the city near where i live and anytime you drive by that place it can stink pretty bad... But Grease? GREASE... Grease smells worse than 100 skunks if you dont have a strong stomach then.... rip.
Call Homer Simpson, that's liquid gold right there.
As a service plumber, you should always dump grease, fats, rice, etc. down your sink. Also, make sure you flush all those new wet wipes. 😂
😂
"It says flushable!"
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Looks like a perfect situation for the Crust Buster
The crust buster was originally designed for commercial grease traps.
I remember working across the street from this one catering facility, we had our shop doors open the day the owner had the grease trap pumped out, and the wind shifted just enough to catch a whiff... 😵🤢☠️ That'll make your nose hairs curl sheesh! Hope you're getting board enough to do that.
Imagine the smell.
Grease traps are so much worse than septic tanks, too. Human waste smells but old grease is on another level entirely.
@aflabbergastedturtle yes it reminded me of the dumpsters of meat behind the butcher shop I worked at, maybe worse
Grease traps smell like death
NOOO! MY RETIREMENT GREASE!!!
In most places these tiny grease traps no longer meet the code requirements for a comercial business. Also, if youve ever had to clean one out under a sink by hand because the local pumpers wont run their shit to the inside of the building, you know exactly why they put that crap outside. In MI where i live, you cant put em outside without them freezing and breaking, so most run much larger systems that tank the crap outside anyway, but older buildings sometimes still can be found with these. Wildly enough, many restaurants in MI get away with running NO GREASE TRAP because theyre on septic, since releasing grease into your own septic isnt illegal, just discharging it into public water is.
Keep it up, sounds great so far! I love music that tells a story and this one is already tugging on my heart strings...RIP Freddy Pack
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A lot of grease traps are outside where I live. Only difference is they are usually underground. The indoor grease traps are in the floor in a containment system until valley proteins comes to pump it out
what about an automation design? fat solidifies pretty quickly after it's heated, have a heat trap that shuts off when the stove cuts off, let the fat solidify into a block, clear it every day instead of monthly, just because it's designed to work that easily
I have a question, where does the grease go after Being sucked out? A landfill or does it get burned?
Typically if they buffet food the amount of food that is produced is higher. Bigger grease traps.
Also it is easier to keep running the restaurant and keeps the smell down if it’s serviced outside.
Also we got our grease trap pumped out every 6 months.
Oh god I can only imagine the smell under the sun. Youre a true blue collar hero for doing that work.
You got my sub after the Tyson Paul joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've worked with this kind off work in Portugal, you actually get fined if once you called the services it has gone over the limit.... And we use it to make biodieselz so you pay the company hundreds of dollars to clean it's and then they turn it into fuel and sell it to you 😂, and in Portugal at least 5% of any diesel must be bio diesel
Idk why you but you punching it is fucking hilarious to me for some reason
Love the pokemon music in the background!
“Better than the Tyson Paul fight” should become a phrase 💀
I used to work as a dishwasher at some family resteraunt. I had to clean their grease trap every other week with a shop vac and it was horrendous. The smell... I thank these men for their service seriously
COCONUT OIL WILL DO THIS TO YOUR SHOWER!! I HAD IT HAPPEN AND LEARNED THE HARD WAY.. i use coconut oil for everything. Hair, cooking, skin, lips, scalp.. ❤
God, the stench. Definitely brings back memories.
The National Park theme though....
As somebody who had one recently cleaned, it was one of the WORST smelling things I've ever had to deal with before 😂😂
Use to work at a General Casey’s convenience store and we didn’t have the grease trap in the kitchen either. For some reason it was outside but this is very northern USA on the IL and WI border so they don’t really get scorching hot days but maybe a few days in the summer. Idk, but I’ll tell you, with it being outside, it was always forgotten to be cleaned. Our store employees were to clean it rather than a company. Not really sure why but I only seen that thing get cleaned once in the year I worked there.
That subtle Nation Park BGM (chefs kissing)
Love the pokemon music in the background 😍
The pipe and the pump extraordinarily helpful
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Outside grease traps are common in the UK, including Australia. The restaurants have contracts to pump out on a regular basis.
....is that Pokemon music?
Thats considered a little under the sink unit?!?
Better than the Tyson versus Paul fight
I'm eating goldfish while watching this
Using "grease block" as a comeback for future arguments lol
"Better than the Tyson/Paul fight." Low bar.
A lot of grease traps up north are outdoors. Keeps the stink from getting inside the restaurant. We also cleaned them between 2am and 8am.
all the older private homes in Suffolk VA has those.....they had wells too ,,and septic tank....it makes since in the right application.
100x's more exciting than the Tyson-Paul fight
Dude the pokemon music is legit perfect in this video 😭
Rudolph got a side gig lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta get a mini crust buster, some dude that pumps poop tanks always uses one, seems like it really helps
I used to wash dishes back in the 90's and the restaurant had a very small grease trap outside. We had to use a shopvac and vacuum it out a couple of times a week.
Baetter than the tyson paul fight, that got a like out of me off rip 😂😂😂
For those who do not know why owners put these outside, and because this guy will not tell you, it is because the stuff inside can smell similar to a dead, rotting body, or raw sewage. It reeks so badly, it will burn your sinuses and make you want to vomit. No one will want to eat inside the restaurant because of the horrific smell coming from the kitchen. I have cleaned a few in my time working in kitchens with these under the sinks. Once they get full, and start to smell, you will not want to be in the kitchen. I would clean them at the end of the day, just so we could open the doors and air the building out.
We had one under our pot wash, it was cleaned every week, was the only task I never enjoyed doing, you’d have to open it, throw in a load of what can only be described as sawdust, and then scoop the congealed mixture into a blue pale for recycling/disposal.
now i finally understand that one spongebob episode where mr crabs illegally disposed of the krusty krab grease
Installed a new one last week, Theyre now a underground concrete structure with a divider wall in the middle thats supposed to hold the grease in one side & allow the rest to flow freely into the septic line. Around 6 foot deep 10 foot wide, But this was for a new apartment complex in the city that will have multiple restaurants in the bottom floor of it so they may make smaller.
Pokemon music?? A cultured man.
I thought he was getting ready sing an old baptism Hymn. “Yepppppp, I’d sayyy uhhhhh” 😅
That smell must be horrific
In a lot of other countries they have them out side it’s pretty cool when they clean them out or they get clogged and have to unclog them
This is also what happens in your arteries. And your body forms a scar on top of it and it becomes hardened. Take care of yourself folks.
I worked at a restaurant that had one outside like this. Sometimes black bears would come open it up and start guzzling down grease.
They're so helpful they even overflow and flood your kitchen with greasy water xD (Work has one under the sink that doesn't get cleaned often)
didn't expect gonna hear about that embarrassed of a fight here 🤣
Jfc i uave cleaned them by hand when i worked at a place when i was a kid. We had one like this in the closet. The smell is very unique and we never let it get that bad lol.
I’m ngl, ALL Houses need this
Honestly, it would be great
Props for the song brother
That thing must have smelled AMAZING roasting in the Texas sun. I can smell it from here.