greasicle

You know when you cook a lot of greasy food, and eventually it
drips from the rangehood screens or the shelving above the
stove, forming a downwards-pointing cone of congealed fat?

This is a greasicle. (Like icicle, but with grease.)

In more technical language. it is also a steatactite
(pronounced stee-AT-ak-tite). (Like a stalactite in a cave,
but using the root "steat", from the Greek word for hard fat.)

We were discussing whether one could also get a steatagmite,
an upwards-pointing cone beneath the drip point of a
steatactite (like a stalagmite in a cave). We have never seen
one - not only because we clean up if we've got greasicles -
also because if a greasicle drips, all there is on the
benchtop is a puddle of grease. However we're in a warm place.
We hypothesise that in a colder climate - say, Britain - and
in a household that used hard animal fats like lard, instead
of oil, a steatagmite is possible.