I?d left the peanut oil out too long after deep-frying the Thanksgiving turkey and it?d turned rancid. My dog got into some of it and spent the next couple of days vomiting, poor thing. He did it quietly and every time I thought he was over it, he wasn?t. And at our yearly post holiday potluck, our nextdoor neighbor, wearing his new Italian loafers wasn?t so thrilled about it either.

I called Joe to ask how he gets rid of used oil. He?s been frying turkeys a lot longer than I have and told me he buries it under his compost pile. His rational being that it?s organic and will eventually disperse, if the raccoons and skunks don?t get into it first. I don?t have a compost (God will smite me for this I know) and I could spit across my yard if I tried hard enough. Together, we ruled out the town dump as an option because transporting the vat would be courting disaster. By then, the oil was...
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