Has anyone invented a way to pour grease down the drain?

No. Unless you have a garbage disposal. What do you mean “anymore”? Is your pipe getting clogged with solidified grease? You might need some Drano or Liquid Plumr. And stop using your sink to put grease in the jug. Do it outside somewhere. Put a tin-foil pie plate under it to collect the drips and feed it to the birds or something. (kinda late in the season for that, but you can just wipe it with a paper towel and reuse the tin.)

This is what I do. After collecting the oil in a milk jug like you do, I dry wipe the pan with a paper towel and wrap it in newspaper and toss in the trash. Then I let the pan sit in hot water and soap and a little bit of vinegar. I then pour it down the drain and chase it with hot water and soap.
I read in a site that you can fill your sink with hot water and soap and then let it drain and once a week pour baking soda and vinegar to break down any grease in your pipes. I don’t fry much. Maybe once a month so I do not have a huge problem with clogged pipes. Especially since I make sure very little grease goes down the pipes.

If you don’t have a lot of grease actually going down your pipes, it could be the fat from meats that you grind up or even animal fat from baking that goes to the bottom of your pan. I toss out all fats in the trash and treat the bottom of pans where I grill or roast the same way as frying . I wipe all fat away and don’t grind up fatty meat in the garbage disposal. Treat fatty meats like you would your liquid fats. Especially bacon.

Have I just been lucky? I have always just poured grease down the sink and have never had a problem. Granted, I make bacon maybe twice a month.

@johnpowell It really also depends on how old your system is and if people have let fat build a lot there in the past. I moved into an apartment once that was constantly getting clogged and it was only 2 years old.

I’ve also lived in a 30 year home that never got clogs until we went from septic tank to city pipes. Nothing changed in the way of how I dispose of my grease. Well except for the 30 year old home. I use to just throw my grease down the drain and run hot water and soap after it. But after I got attached to all my neighbors, I started to have problems and then started to collect the grease in a jar or milk jug. I think the longer the pipe is that is laying on the side to the main street pipe, the more likely that oils and fats won’t drain properly all the way and will build till it creates a blockage. At least that is my theory. And if you have a lot of neighbors that throw a lot of grease down and it builds in the main pipes, then it will eventually work its way back to our home.
That is probably why many sewage companies ask residents not to pour grease down the drain.

Stop pouring grease down/in the sink.

I put my grease in the trash.
If it’s the kind of grease that’s eventually going to solidify, you can let it cool down a bit and pour it into a disposable drink cup with a lid. Keep it in the fridge until it’s fullish/solid, and throw it in the trash.
Alternately, if it’s not a huge amount of grease, you can wad paper (newspaper or used paper towels) in the cup, pour in the grease, put the lid on, and toss.
Alternately, you can pour the cooled grease into a used Zip-lock type bag, close it, and throw away. Add newspaper or used paper towel if necessary.

Yeah, @johnpowell, you’ve just been lucky!

Never pour grease down the drain. I put mine in a used can, in a used grocery bag and then into the trash (land fill).

The main issue is later on in the sewer system, not necessarily in your own pipes.source

My mother never poured bacon grease down the sink, she put it in a soup can next to the stove, then used it when she want to fry something.

But a plumber once told her how to wash the pans from cooking a roast beef. After skimming as much cooled fat as possible to make suet for birds, the rest was to be washed in the sink, and then a kettle full of boiling water poured down the sink as the last thing, to get the grease to liquefy and flow down the pipes.

Of course, take care of your own household pipes but @YARNLADY is completely right, it is the bigger picture you need to be concerned about, your city’s drainage system.

@YARNLADY and @Adagio are, of course, correct.

I thought of a sure-fire way you could put grease down the drain, but after reading the responses, I’m not going to share it.

NEVER pour grease down the drain! You’re only asking for trouble. Do what @ibstubro said 5 posts back.

I knew that I had seen a video about fat in London’s drains .