Hello,
In order to both thank and bond with my host family I tried cooking dinner. It was a complete failure and we decided to quickly make something else. The problem is, there is a lot of it. I plan to pay them back for groceries and stuff used tonight, but I’m not sure what to do with the food waste or how to dispose of it. I was told the family does not throw away food, so I will try to eat at least some of it by myself in additional apology (absolutely not letting them eat that if I can help it), but how do I get rid of all of that soupy-but-not-soup mess?
Edit: all the toilets are bidets. Is that going to pose a problem?
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This isn’t really a Japan specific question at all lol….
Strain the liquid, put solids in burnables.
For smaller amounts and if it’s soft, there’s also flushing it in batches down the toilet.
The only thing is that it must be no thicker than what you would conventionally use a toilet to dispose of 😇
Toilet
Is there a disposer in the sink? That’s how I get rid of most liquid food waste.
I imagine sink would the normal way of doing it, using the strainer in the sink. What do you do in your home country?
Why would you think to put it in the toilet???? Throw it in the garbage if it’s absolutely inedible. If it’s edible but just not great then suck it up and eat it. Depending on the issue it could be fixed if it’s something as simple as too salty, not salty enough, etc etc or take some of the vegetables or meat from it and put it top of some rice and eat it that way if the broth sucks
Run a hot bath and just pour it all in. Then take a bath in it. Just tell your host family that it’s a custom in your country at this time of year, much the same as Japanese putting yuzu in the bath at the winter solstice etc.
Are you sure you can’t fix it?? I’ve had a slightly similar experience when I offered to make soup for my ex colleague and his family, but a cube of chicken bullion saved the situation
Take it out to the street and pour it into the storm drain.
You can freeze it
Yeah, strainer in the kitchen as some people already mentioned but please use one of those nets that you put over the strainer.
Pour that stuff in, rinse so only solids remain, hang the net over the sink to dry out and throw it in the garbage the next day.
That’s how I would do it.
What’s wrong with it? If it’s just bland, throw some curry roux in it.