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The Making Of 'Gutter Oil'

The Making Of 'Gutter Oil'

Radio Free Asia
0 HN recommenders · discussed 2018–2025
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About this video

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.

Why it appears in the archive

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

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From the Hacker News discussion

keketi · 2018-11 · reference

When I saw a video[1] about Chinese gutter oil, I didn't believe something as repulsive could exist. I was wrong. [1] [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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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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joecool1029 · 2025-12 · joke

>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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