Grease Trap Challenge

On the second week the campers are here they go on something called out trips, there is a rock climbing trip, canoe trip, and a valley trip which is a beginner hiking trip. All kids and most staff are out of camp and the select few instructors left behind and the cooks have the joy of thoroughly cleaning the place up and getting it ready for the next set of campers.

Jenny and I's first encounter with the grease trap;

These pictures are after Jenny and I already scooped out all the disgusting liquid that fills the grease trap to the brim. 

Cleaning the grease trap has to be the most disgusting job I have ever done in my life. It takes some serious work to get this thing clean. First you have to hand scoop all the liquid out into buckets lined with trash bags, dig 3 or 4 wholes out side in the dirt away from where we do activities, and pour the liquid in the holes and bury it. 

Next you have to remove all the pieces of the grease trap and take note of the order they are in, then take them down stairs and outside to clean them with a decreasing chemical. You put one piece at a time in a metal tub and pour the de-greaser in and with a scrub brush and a spatula tool, you scrape off  all the grease and food particles. It isn't only gross work, but it is dangerous and harmful if you get the chemical on your skin which is almost always inevitable because you have to scrub at the pieces, you get little chemical burns on your hands and arms, which hurt and leave burns.

When we are all finished cleaning up the pieces we take them back upstairs into the kitchen, and put piece by piece back in the trap and put the lid back on.

The finished product! Crazy how filthy they can get in only 2 weeks. Two weeks from  today let the process begin all over again!