With covid meaning we have to cook at home, I've been experimenting with different meals and have just tried fish n chips. Now I have to dispose of the sunflower oil.
Not after a single use, for sure, Just pour it back into a bottle to use it next time.
I generally use groundnut oil, and if we cook something contaminating like pakoras or Chinese crispy beef it is no longer suitable for general use such as for chips, so it gets stored separately for next time.
Of course it has a limited number of uses anyway, but for both economic and environmental reasons it makes sense not to simply throw it away after a single use.
Yes that's true and I had also these intentions, but the thought came to me about how I eventually get rid of it, which has now been answered. Thanks a lot.
Food health reasons as well. High levels of BCBs taste nice, but they're not massively good for you. The recommendations I've seen are 3 or 4 times, but up to 8 times for cleaner food, like straight forward chips.
My husband developed a yearning for kroket (he’s Dutch). So we got a tfal deep fryer that filters the oil and stores is in a reservoir till the next use. We use the oil maybe 3-4 times, or so.
It’s a great appliance - pretty much everything goes in the dishwasher (after being degreased).
It’s a tfal oleoclean pro, about chf 110. I understand there might be a smaller model too.
Makes great general tso’s chicken (Chinese American, admittedly inauthentic cuisine)
But yeah, there’s an oil recycling drum near us too.
Filtering the BCBs out after each use can also increase the lifespan, as can using high smoking-point oils like the groundnut I prefer (mainly for its neutral taste).