How do you dispose of a pan full of cooking oil after frying up a mess of fish?
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How do you dispose of a pan full of cooking oil after frying up a mess of fish?
Makes great weed killer!
I usually recycle it at least once:o I very slowly drain it back through a coffee filter, in a funnel, back into the bottle. The yucky stuff thats left goes into our compost. Not sure if I'm supposed to do that or not, but I sure have some healthy worms. Weed killer??:eek:
Make sure the oil has not burned or scorched. Use good stuff, it will last longer.
A friend of mine just leaves it in his cast iron. His fish sure is good, don't know how long he leaves it there.
NOT down the drain. If you need to just get rid of it there is always the old coffee can (do all fisher folk drink lots of coffee?) in the trash.
Biodiesel
Ken
fire starter
Use peanut oil. Expensive upfront but lasts a long time. Butch
Save it for Willie Nelson. He's always coming to town and his bus uses used oil.
I'm thinking that the coffee filter-back in the jug til next time sounds like the way to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffy
I used to use crisco, and that wasn't a problem - pour it into a coffee can and after it hardens, put it in with the garbage. Now I use canola oil - to try to keep my arteries open for a couple more years, so now I have a way to recycle it. I'm guessing after it's used a couple times, just fill the jug with used oil and trash it?
Thanks for the answers everyone.
yep, If I am careful I can get three fries before trashing it. It goes realy slow, I am trying to find some other kind of filter, without spending a gazillion dollars.
Love your avitar.
Fry ON!
here we just use peanut oil in the fryer than when finished with it I put back in jug and Auto zone takes it with my Trucks oil.:) they sell it to :confused:
But I like the idea Biodiesel.
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.
This is what I do. I have a T-Fal cooker that I bought from BPS for small amounts. When I get done let the oil cool. Pour the oil back in the container for the next time and store in the fridge. The next time you want to use it let it get to room temp. Place a paper towel in the strainer rack that is part of the cooker (looks like stainless hardware cloth). Pour the oil on this, discard the paper towel with all the gunk and you are good to go!
i use gauze medical pads (4"x4") to strain my oil.......steril and cheap and has 4 layers to catch the debris
I use paint strainers placed in a funnel. Most parts stores will give them to you along with stirring paddles when you purchase paint. The strainers mold right to the funnel. Hope this helps.
i let mine set in the cooker for a few days after i cook. all the sediment in the oil will sink to the bottom (cornmeal sediment will float on the surface, but i dont use cornmeal)then i pour it back in the jugs it come in, being careful not to stir the stuff up in the bottom. the sediment and little bit of oil left in it, i pour out. if you have floating sediment, use a piece of cheese cloth or a NEW OR CLEAN cloth diaper and strain it through it. coffee filters is too slow and time consuming.
I thought I'd thought of most of the simple things to strain the crud out with, but probably wouldn't have thought of gauze and paint strainers until I read it here. Thanks for all the ideas....:)
I use the same bottles it came in. Once cooled, I funnel it back into those bottles it came out of. This gives you the chance to see how much oil was used (very little usually). I then put the tops back on the bottles and set them in the trash can for pick-up.
takes 1 gal to fill my fryer.after use i let it stay in deep fry overnight to settle and then pour all the good stuff back in the original jug and place into the refrigerator and it will keep forever. can get a number of uses before it is no longer good for cooking. then i filter it into my diesel truck veg oil tank and burn it going fishing.AAHH IT IS SO GOOD TO PASS THE SERVICE STATIONS AND KEEP ON GOING.
MAIL IT TO ME AND I WILL BURN IT GOING FISHING. MY DIESEL TRUCK LOVES IT.Quote:
Originally Posted by sac-a-lait