...reads a sign today on the butter sculpture at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. The 800 pound Liberty bell and likenesses of Benjamin Franklin will head to Philadelphia after the show to be processed into biodiesel by Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel
The butter sculpture at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. YDR-Paul Kuehnel
Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel was granted $369,696 from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to partially fund a demonstration and testing facility to research the production of heating oil and biodiesel from restaurant trap grease. Restaurant trap grease is the last stop for waste water that leaves a commercial kitchen before it hits the sewer system.
I sat in on a butter sculpting session a few years ago. Huge slabs of butter bent around wire, sculpted with tools and human hands. Butter walked on and mushed around - my shoes were sliding off the clutch for a week. The experience put an end to any thought that this butter could ever be food again.
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