cooking oil?

My cousin swears by slicing potatoes and cooking them before he fries fish it will take most of the fish taste out of the oil. As far as draining, you can get a battery operated pump from Bass Pro, Lowe's Home Depot, etc and it will pump oil out but IMO it is hard to clean. I found a funnel at Bass Pro with a screen to get most of the sediments out. As far as dumping oil, I have not had to get rid of any yet but I noticed at the local landfill a place for cooking oil so check around you may can recycle it.

Hope this helps!

I use peanut oil. Filter is an old T shirt. I takes the sediment out and is a lot faster that coffee filter. Helps if the oil is a little warm. If the oil is cold it is slow going through the filter. Put it back into the container it came in.

An old t-shirt, brilliant! Thanks

pouring cold water on hot grease .... remember :

If you're frying whole fish (non-filleted), fish eggs, and larger fish ... that come from an area with contamination potential, and/or where Fish Consumption Advisories are in effect (for the fish you're cooking) -- then remember that the oil should not be reused, if you are cooking for/feeding people that are at risk. Filters will not remove the contaminants.
This is not so much a problem with Crappie, as with some other fish species ... but, following the consumption guidlines of your waters/area, is still a good idea.

...... cp :cool:

I do forget about that, mostly I eat 'safe' fish, but every now and then the contents unknown is there. Thanks for keeping us safe.

I strain my peanut oil thru cotton cheesecloth in a funnel and put it into deepfreeze.

Tried coffee filters... work great for the first couple cups, then clog up and watching the grass grow was faster than the level of the oil in the funnel going down, so switched over to the old T-shirt - worked like a charm. I'm thinking about getting one of those pumps at BPS just to make cleanup go faster.

By the way... fried up over 100 fillets yesterday, had everyone take some home with them and we'll still be eating fish for lunch most of the week!!!!

All of these critters and a dozen or so more that I didn't take pictures of were released into lake Crisco yesterday...


Saturday's catch
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...5-26-catch.jpg

Friday's catch
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...5-25-catch.jpg

Last Sunday's catch
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...4/snap0004.jpg

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!! talk about yummy!

OK... I used my BPS Rewards and a $10 coupon to buy a cooking oil funnel and filters at BPS yesterday ($28 for funnel and pack of 6 filters - after redeeming rewards points and using the coupon, I paid 2¢ out of pocket). Next fish fry won't happen probably for a couple weeks, but as soon as I give it a try, I'll let y'all know how it works.

Joe

Has anybody ever tried one of these?:

http://www.brylanehome.com/decor/Oil...&mid=j14741424

I'm still searching for the ultimate economical store-bought strainer that gets most of the fine impurities out of my frying grease. Unlike the strainers I've seen at Wal-Mart and other stores, this one says it gets "the tiniest" stuff. Heck, if you cook with oil a good bit, a fairly nice strainer that gets a large % of the fines out will eventually pay for itself if you can reuse the oil at least once..............And, this one's on sale :rolleyes:

The filter-funnel I got at BPS was similar to this
http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st...=SearchResults

use it with the filters that go with it and I've been able to re-use my oil up to 3 times before it ain't right for cooking anymore. They also sell a battery powered filter pump - better than a funnel if you deep fry turkeys - kind of difficult to dump one of those big turkey pans into a funnel.