Though some say the fuel smells like fast food, the cooking oil is safe for powering jumbo jets and provides exactly the same flying experience.

BBC: Cooking oil powers transatlantic flights

The rendering plants pick up cooking fat from local fast-food joints and meat from supermarkets.

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An infomercial pitchwoman takes on the fast-food giant over its cooking oil promises.

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But the truth is, the fast-food giant has already been cooking with trans-fat free oil in about 1, 200 test restaurants nationwide.

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Peel the foil off just before cooking, scrunch it into a ball (it cools fast), and use it later to scrape any residue or ash from the bars.

CNN: New uses for Thanksgiving items

In its own way, Indiana is following New York City and those fast-food chains that are attempting to phase out trans fat from cooking oils.

NPR: State Fair Takes the (Bad) Fat Out of Funnel Cakes

Dreamhack's record breaking 120Gbps connection was fast enough to replace a certain household appliance, but next to what's Norway's cooking up it looks almost antiquated.

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No longer is it so important that you learned to cook a new meal every week for a year, but now the focus turns to how many thousands of families you touched by creating healthy cooking videos that were then posted on YouTube and viewed by moms who were previously hardcore fast foodies.

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