Review on Stainless Steel OGGI Cooking Grease Container - 4 Quart by Dawn Adams

Edit: Downgraded from five stars to two because something very strange happened. I've washed it in the dishwasher for what must have been the tenth time today and when I turned it right side out, some kind of dark black liquid started dripping all over it. What the hell? It looks like it's coming out of a small, perfectly round hole in the ground. The leak is not from the main tank. Instead it looks like they made this container in two parts for some reason and I suspect the bottom flat part is somehow glued on. They must have had a plug in the tiny bottom hole that eventually came out. I'm not sure I want to keep using this thing until I figure out what's really going on. First Review: My building recently joined NYC's vegetable oil recycling program. This is a wonderful program: it diverts oil from the sewers (where the city has spent over $200 million annually unclogging) and the waste oil is either processed into biodiesel or used as animal feed! Anyway, it's impractical to carry used oil down to the basement every time I cook, so I needed a way to store it. Oh, and stainless steel is my favorite metal. This jar is the perfect size for my cupboards and the built in strainer keeps dirt out of the jar. I remember reading somewhere that the awful smell from fat processing comes mostly from the food scraps mixed with the vegetable oil and fat and not the fat/oil itself, so the strainer probably saves me some stink! the screen *could* be a lot finer mesh and it would probably catch more dirt. I have experimented with a stainless steel filter screen (from McMaster-Carr) and found that the much smaller mesh sizes still allow the flow to capture smaller particles.