The Making Of 'Gutter Oil'
Radio Free AsiaCited 4× on HN, 2018–2025
documentary · general · evergreen · 2018–2025 on HN
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.
Cited as a documentary look at gutter oil and as an example of restaurant cost-cutting and food safety problems.
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4 comments from Hacker News
>It's not toxic per se, but you can't just dump it down the drain. That's what the gutter is for: ▶ this video
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): ▶ this video
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 ▶ this video
When I saw a video[1] about Chinese gutter oil, I didn't believe something as repulsive could exist. I was wrong. [1] ▶ this video