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Recently I visited a friend's home, and they were cooking fried fish for dinner. The cook had containers of old, browned, used oil, which was used in previous fish frys, that they intended to re-use again for this dinner.
I have never seen or heard of re-using old vegetable oil or lard for multiple frys before, and was completely disgusted.
Yet when I googled it, there seems to be a number of folks who do re-use old frying oil. It just seems unhygienic. And nasty. Also never heard or seen of a restaurant re-using fryer oil.
Has anyone here seen or done this before? Thoughts?
Recently I visited a friend's home, and they were cooking fried fish for dinner. The cook had containers of old, browned, used oil, which was used in previous fish frys, that they intended to re-use again for this dinner.
I have never seen or heard of re-using old vegetable oil or lard for multiple frys before, and was completely disgusted.
Yet when I googled it, there seems to be a number of folks who do re-use old frying oil. It just seems unhygienic. And nasty. Also never heard or seen of a restaurant re-using fryer oil.
Has anyone here seen or done this before? Thoughts?
Do you really think that restaurants throw out their frying oil after each use? Most places use their oil for seven days at a minimum. Most good restaurants will filter their oil at the end of the night.
Second, most restaurants use their OLDEST oil to fry their fish. Fish is less affected by older oil as are other foods.
It is not unhygenic and is fine to use if it is filtered.
By the way, are YOU going to throw away $40 in oil each time you try fish?
Recently I visited a friend's home, and they were cooking fried fish for dinner. The cook had containers of old, browned, used oil, which was used in previous fish frys, that they intended to re-use again for this dinner.
I have never seen or heard of re-using old vegetable oil or lard for multiple frys before, and was completely disgusted.
Yet when I googled it, there seems to be a number of folks who do re-use old frying oil. It just seems unhygienic. And nasty. Also never heard or seen of a restaurant re-using fryer oil.
Has anyone here seen or done this before? Thoughts?
For personal home frying it's up to the cook. But as far as many restaurants, they reuse oil often. Some even cross fry foods in the same oil. That's why fires & fish taste the same. I've seen/heard restaurants
using the same oil the whole day, a few days, or a full week if they can get away with it.
Do you really think that restaurants throw out their frying oil after each use? Most places use their oil for seven days at a minimum. Most good restaurants will filter their oil at the end of the night.
Second, most restaurants use their OLDEST oil to fry their fish. Fish is less affected by older oil as are other foods.
It is not unhygenic and is fine to use if it is filtered.
By the way, are YOU going to throw away $40 in oil each time you try fish?
I worked in fish shacks on the New England coast as a teen in summer and they threw the oil away every day, but that was 20 yrs ago
For personal home frying it's up to the cook. But as far as many restaurants, they reuse oil often. Some even cross fry foods in the same oil. That's why fires & fish taste the same. I've seen/heard restaurants
using the same oil the whole day, a few days, or a full week if they can get away with it.
Cross frying, yes, often, and pretty much everywhere. Why Kelly's chicken fingers taste like shrimp lol.
I just didn't know this was a thing... especially with home cooks
Commercial kitchens do reuse their oils, which is why people with seafood allergies, sometimes cannot have the fries, or other deep fried items, if they do not have a dedicated oil for them. ( cross contamination)
I worked in fish shacks on the New England coast as a teen in summer and they threw the oil away every day, but that was 20 yrs ago
Wow that is a surprise: I have never heard of any restaurant throwing out the oil after only one use. I grew up in a family that used all oils, including fish oil over several times. Now for us, personally because we now use our air fryer I do not fry my fish, but when I used my deep fryer I used the oil over.
A real restaurant has a machine that filters the fryer oils, and they have separate fry vats for chicken, fish and vegetables. The scruffy bar on the corner does none of that, so drink your $6 IPA and shut up about the mozzarella sticks that taste like fish.
A real restaurant has a machine that filters the fryer oils, and they have separate fry vats for chicken, fish and vegetables. The scruffy bar on the corner does none of that, so drink your $6 IPA and shut up about the mozzarella sticks that taste like fish.
lmaooo
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