Reusing turkey fryer oil

[johnm160]

Do you guys save and reuse the oil from your turkey fryer? 3 gallons of peanut oil is a little on the expensive side. What do you guys do with your oil when you are done with thanksgiving?

John

 

[walking dude]

as long as you didn't BURN the oil..........get some cheese cloth and just strain it.............i agree........peanut prices are out the ROOF...........i have used mine 2 or 3 more times.........


just strain it and save it......you will be good to go

d88de

 

[lisacsco]

fry some home made french fries. chicken, or game hens, all kinds of thing to get use out of your oil.

can it be frozen to use a later time?

 

[monty]

Freezing the oil is not an option. It will result in the irretrievable breakdown of the oil.

As for reusing the oil, as previously stated, that is OK. HOWEVER, peanut oil, when used to cook veggies has a very high transfat rate. Used peanut oil has an even higher rate of transfat incidence.

Just posting this for folks who should avoid transfats.

Same goes for Wok Cookery.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!

 

[deejaydebi]

I've often wondered that myself Lisa. Every time I've fried a turkey it was a one shot deal - what a waste of money!

 

[walking dude]

yea......lots more uses for it.......you don't have to use the WHOLE 5 gals. at a time............


but strain it.........


d88de

 

[bigarm's smokin]

Also, they make a neat self contained pump with a filtor in it. You just cool the oil then stick the pump in your fry pot and pump the oil back into the original container. I have had one for 7 or 8 years and its still new in the box.

(I'm saving it for when I really need it)

 

[mossymo]

Heck Terry, I still have a fryer new in the unopened box for about 5 years now, someday I will have to break it out and make me a deep fried turkey !!! I have had a 5 gallon jug of peanut oil stored since I bought the fryer also..... Suppose I should pick up one of those filter kits to set beside it also !!!

 

[rip]

Damn Mossy I thought it was just me. I have had one for 5 years too, and never used it.

 

[minn.bill]

you guys need to break them fryers out and start using them. i have 2 .one gas and one elect.only done one turkey in them but hundreds of pounds fish. chicken wings galore.french fries ,onion rings poppers ,corn dogs .love em lovem lovem. and yes i reuse the oil many times over. the only thing i do is have seperate oil for the fish. i dont wan everything to taste like fish.

 

[jerrykr]

Light your fireplace with about a cup of peanut oil. Put it in a shallow metal container, and put a rolled up paper towel or some other paper in it as a wick. Place it under the wood. It will light some pretty big logs. Don't pour it on the logs, let the little can start your fire. It burns very hot, but the flash point is very low in this situation, so it starts very slowly. Motor oil is about the same in this situation.

 

[smokeys my pet]

Reuse it as others have said. As long as you strain very good it will last awhile. I have even seen it used to cokk fries after it had been used with a lot of fish. Just cook a whole unpeeled wased potatoe after cooking the fish.

 

[deejaydebi]

I guess I just don't fry stuff anymore. When I grew up everything was fried except spaghetti and lasagna and soup I think.

For some reason I just don't fry stuff so the oil sits in the plastic container and goes rancid. I even spritz oil on taters, sprinkle them with veg-e-sal and cajun spice and bake "fries."

 

[policecom]

I think my Ford SuperDuty Diesel will run on the stuff if you guys can't decide what to do with it

 

[bigarm's smokin]

You know, I saw a video on a machine that pumped used cooking oil through a machine, then pumped the oil into diesel pickups fuel tanks, I don't know, I'm thinkin, sticky injectors and injector pumps?

 

[policecom]

Yeah, I have heard those diesels will run on that stuff. With the price I paid for mine I am not sure I would dare try it...unless diesel fuel hits $3.00......oh wait....it has...

 

[deejaydebi]

Good idea - I have a Chief at work that collects oil from the Chinese resteraunt for his truck. I didn't think of that. Mines only been used once it should be real good!

 

[mossymo]

How many miles per gallon are they getting from peanut oil? !!!

 

[walking dude]

its STILL got to run higher than sweet crude in price

hhehehehe

d88de

 

[policecom]

I think the object of using peanut oil is to have someone else buy it and use it and then they want to get rid of the old stuff so bad they just give it to a nice diesel driver (like myself)