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The Making Of 'Gutter Oil'

Radio Free Asia · 7.3M views · 2013-05-02 · 2:39

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Overview

A Radio Free Asia report from its China food safety series on how "gutter oil" is recovered from sewers and waste and sold on to cheap restaurants and street vendors.

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Cited as a documentary look at gutter oil and as an example of restaurant cost-cutting and food safety problems.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2025

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Environment, agriculture & food systemsMedia, journalism & propagandaCooking & food
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gutter oilcooking oilstreet foodinvestigative reportchina

What people said

joecool1029 · 2025-12 · Joke / meme

>It's not toxic per se, but you can't just dump it down the drain. That's what the gutter is for: [VIDEO]

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cma · 2020-05 · Reference

This video is funded by he American government so I'm not sure how biased it is, but it shows a cost cutting measure (gutter oil): [VIDEO]

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beardog · 2019-03 · Reference

Such as using Gutter Oil (not limited to delivery), a practice where cooking oil is retrieved/derived from random unsafe sources such as sewers, a practice thought to be common in parts of China: [LINK] [VIDEO]

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