Deep Fryers ---- Do You Save the Oil?

I will use the oil several times. Depending on what I have been frying, when finished I will then cut up a few potatoes and fry them. The potatoes will actually 'clean' the grease and remove any strong taste and odor. I can usually get away with this a couple of times, letting me use the oil 3 or so times. This method usually doesn't work though if the oil has gotten too hot and burned. Once the oil has cooled down I then strain into the original container and store until the next use. Tim

Strain it through cheese cloth to help get any material out of the oil. We use ours upwards of a dozen times before it is unusable.

Once or twice a year use for the deep fryer doesn't seem to be worth saving the oil for in our case. I refuse to buy expensive peanut oil so a gallon of vegetable oil is just part of the cost of the meal.

Yes we do, at home and even when camping.

Yes, but how long depends on the usage. I don't keep it long after fish, if at all. Chicken is a 2 time meat for me unless it's skinless white meat.
I use a canning funnel and coffee filters to clear the oil of debris and I store it in glass jars. It's the breading, etc that spoils it because if it isn't removed the it burns on the second go around. If you fry something like skinned chicken or pork you add some meat fat to the mix and it doesn't last as long.

Super_Dave wrote:
Once or twice a year use for the deep fryer doesn't seem to be worth saving the oil for in our case. I refuse to buy expensive peanut oil so a gallon of vegetable oil is just part of the cost of the meal.

Same here. That and the finding that after 2 or 3 cooking sessions, there's a higher level of carcinogens in the oil has me tossing it at the local gas station.

Smoked food is tastier and healthier besides. :W

Here in the campground we are at for the winter, they use the 1X used oil to help get/keep the fire going.

We usually fry a turkey for Thanks Giving, then a chicken or two after,, We always strain thru cheese cloth and back into the original container, Most birds we fry have a rub or injection, oil takes on a flavor of its own after the second fry so we only go three fry's at best before we bag and tag for the recycle bin..

doxiemom11 wrote:
Here in the campground we are at for the winter, they use the 1X used oil to help get/keep the fire going.

Campground smells like you are driving past an In & Out Burger. LOL!

Super_Dave wrote:

doxiemom11 wrote:
Here in the campground we are at for the winter, they use the 1X used oil to help get/keep the fire going.

Campground smells like you are driving past an In & Out Burger. LOL!

I wonder if that would attract bears?