Asian Gutter Oil

Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油.

Asian gutter oil.

All the answers have been accurate but even if you ve been eating gutter oil you have it s not necessarily that which is giving you diarrhea it could cross contamination of meat and vegetables unclean meat and vegetables unsanitary utensils or even more likely all of the above plus more. In april chinese authorities uncovered a gutter oil production ring that spanned 13 cities and over 100 people who somehow acquired rotten animal parts and boiled down the fat into oil. The chinese are cracking down on gutter oiling cooking with oils and animal fatbergs scooped from the sewer in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Beijing chinese authorities have battled to get rid of gutter oil in the country s kitchens for years cracking down on illegal oil production rings since.

Chinese officials have arrested more than 100 people suspected of creating a new variety of recycled cooking oil concocted out of rotten animal parts the latest crackdown in the government s. The sources of this oil are restaurant fryers sewers and leftover or used oil that is sold by restaurants. It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and. China has a known problem with counterfeit cooking oil made illegally by gangs.

In september 2014 taiwan s food and drug administration identified more than 900 restaurants and food plants that were using gutter oil supplied by chang guann. Gutter oil can contain bleaches and chemicals to alter its. Gutter oil is a term used in china to describe illicit cooking oil that has already been used and is then processed by cleaning and filtering to be resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil. Sōushuǐ yóu is a general term for oil that has been recycled it can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.

This is generally known as gutter oil chinese pinyin dìgōu yóu simplified characters 地沟油 traditional characters 地溝油.