The Making Of 'Gutter Oil'
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a documentary look at gutter oil and as an example of restaurant cost-cutting and food safety problems.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2018 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Cites keketi · 2018-11 · on “In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs or Make Their Own”
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]
Cites beardog · 2019-03 · on “In Beijing, it’s often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself”
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]
Cites cma · 2020-05 · on “Why Restaurants Are So Fucked”
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]