Gutter oil is a general term for oil that has been recycled.
China street food gutter oil.
China has been fighting the practice for years.
The chinese are cracking down on gutter oiling cooking with oils and animal fatbergs scooped from the sewer in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.
It can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.
Gutter oil is reported to account for one tenth of cooking oil in china according to experts cited by rfa.
Besides being downright disgusting the oil is also said to contain carcinogens and other toxins.
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.
In the city of shanghai it was reported that over.