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Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil
- alecco 10mo agoActual title: Multiple Chinese Nationals Indicted...
- cyanydeez 10mo ago[flagged]
- petcat 10mo agoIt is absolutely material to this story though? These people will likely serve their jail or prison sentence and then be forcibly returned to China where they will immediately undergo their re-education.
- wetpaws 10mo ago[dead]
- georgeburdell 10mo agoIt’s site rules to use the exact title, even if there are misspellings
- DustinEchoes 10mo agoThis is part of a broader trend of increased Chinese organized crime in the US. The Chinese government encourages and profits from activity like this.
- metalman 10mo agono. these people are double fucked, once in the US, for crimes while bieng chinese, and then again, in China, for crimes while bieng chinese and then they will face a rather terrible but never directly spoken of fate, for having messed with brand CHINA™, which is the ultimate bad mojo. these people must be crazy, the only explainer would be if they were stealing strictly from other chinese, but somehow got caught outside that.
- pphysch 10mo agoOh no, not the Used Cooking Oil. Thank you DoJ for keeping our streets safe. Seriously though, what's the usual lifecycle for those waste oil tanks? Will the owner sell the contents to a recycler when it's full?
- colechristensen 10mo agoRead the article. This is an organized crime thing, apparently there's a chinese mob? These people were stealing oil from restaurants and selling it to downstream users for industrial uses (making biodiesel is one) Google suggests at about $0.5 per gallon
- SoftTalker 10mo agoYes, the restaurants have a contract with a waste oil processor. The oil gets picked up and is used to make soap, cosmetics, biodiesel, or other products. I'm not sure what the restaurant gets paid for it, probably not a lot, they may even have to pay for the service like they do for trash dumpsters. But unlike trash, the oil has a value so they probably do get paid a little bit. They are also legally required to dispose of waste cooking oil properly. It's not toxic per se, but you can't just dump it down the drain.
- joecool1029 10mo ago>It's not toxic per se, but you can't just dump it down the drain. That's what the gutter is for: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04
- tbrownaw 10mo ago> but you can't just dump it down the drain The search keyword is the day is "fatberg".
- blitzar 10mo agoSounds like regulatory overreach attacking small businesses and innovation.
- mjhay 10mo agoUsed oil and grease theft is fairly valuable to use for biodiesel. Theft has actually been a problem for a while.
- monerozcash 10mo agoI put all the available court filings from PACER on RECAP https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72028072/united-states-v-chen/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72028072/united-states-...
- maxglute 10mo agoUsed cooking oil / UCO has been liquid gold for carbon credit maxing as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel. Sells more per unit than cooking oil, so much so there's fraud going around mixing UCO into fresh cooking oil for resale. There's tariff shenanigans over PRC UCO exports, so now US UCO = $$$. The broader TLRD is there's no market for gutter oil for cooking anymore when UCO sell more to industrial recyclers. Gutter oil for cooking in PRC, TW disapeared once waste cooking oil recycling industries sprung up. I think SKR avoided it all together by building biodesel management earlier.
- OutOfHere 10mo agoI don't know why restaurants need to use oil in this waste-generating way, presumably for frying. All of the same things can be cooked in an air fryer oven without oil. Granted, it takes longer, and uses plenty of electricity, but it can be done all day long.
- D-Machine 10mo agoThis is completely incorrect. Air-fryers are just small ovens, they do not meaningfully crisp almost anything without serious modifications to the recipe and approach, and most crispy textures can only be properly achieved by deep frying. Air fryers are mostly useless and the name borders on fraud IMO.
- OutOfHere 10mo agoThey cook, which is the point. Being crisp isn't actually necessary. Being cooked is. If it's really necessary, one can always use spray oil before inserting them into the air fryer.
- D-Machine 10mo agoYes, I guess we can just steam or even microwave all our food then, texture and moisture content is just an irrelevancy.
- OutOfHere 10mo agoActually a microwave or steamer or cooker works fine for me for things that can cook so simply, but not everything can. Some things require a fryer. The point is that there is a 1:1 correspondence between what can cook in an oil fryer versus what can cook in an air fryer, and the result is 85% as crisp. In fact I hold the oil against the restaurant because the oil is a multi-faceted health hazard.
- Kirby64 10mo agoThis seems like you’ve never used an air fryer. They aren’t a replacement for a deep fryer, of course, but they can certainly crisp many different foods much differently from a traditional oven. The high cfm convection of an air fryer makes food behave much differently than a regular oven or a standard convection oven.
- Stevvo 10mo agoAt least they are using it for Biodiesel. This happens daily in China, hundreds of thousands of people collect used oil from drains/sewers and sell it to a refinery. However, the refinery doesn't turn it into bio-diesel; they clean it up and resell it as new cooking oil.