Extend The Life Of Cooking Oil Essay

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Goal: Can You really Extend the Life of Your Cooking Oil? Total word count in this document: Title: Can You really Extend the Life of Your Cooking Oil? Best-practice recommendations call for filtering the oil in your commercial fryer once a day, twice if your fryer gets used non-stop during business hours. Many operators don’t see the value in filtering their oil this often, but disregarding the process can ruin the taste and even the texture of your food and cost you more on fryer oil. In the worst cases, dirty oil can cause your fryer to break down or even start a grease fire. The most expensive part of managing a restaurant fryer isn’t buying the unit or paying for the utilities; it’s the recurring cost of fryer oil. Oil that doesn’t get filtered will break down thanks to the presence of food particles, fatty acids, and ice …show more content…

These systems are generally installed within a battery of fryers, often inside the cabinet of a heat-and-dump station. Little else is required of the operator after they hit a couple of switches and wait for the system to complete the process. Automatic systems can complete the cycle in a matter of minutes, so you can filter the oil between dayparts and even between batches with little downtime. A second method is with a mobile deep fryer oil filter system, which requires a little labor, but is quicker than manually filtering the oil. These can be used with any type of fryer and include a nozzle that you insert into the frypot. The system will filter the oil and return it through the same nozzle. The final method is by manually filtering your oil with a cone filter. This method is most commonly used for smaller countertop fryers and ones with removable fry pots, but with enough care and patience on the operator’s part, it works for floor model fryers, too. It's labor-intensive but necessary if you don’t have a built in filter or a portable

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