Does anyone here recycle their cooking oil?

['Magic' Juan]

May sound like a silly question, but a friend and I have been making various dishes over the past year (it gives me a chance to learn how to cook). I was surprised when she pulled out this old tin can with holes on top in order to reuse the corn oil held within. Essentially, after cooking a meal she takes the used oil and drains it through the little holes on top which then collects in the tin can. When it is time to do another meal they just reuse the old oil for the new dish. It is not thrown out until the oil gets "cloudy."

Seems her family has been doing this for years due to the fact, while growing up, it was too expensive for them to purchase new oil for every meal. Does anyone else do this or know anyone who does this? Just curious ...

-M J

[fred da warrior]

The can of used oil\lard on top of the stove is not an unique experience.....Foods fry the best (to me, anyway) after the 4th-5th use......growing up po', grocery shopping was a once a month thing, so you had to stretch it out.....

[BHouse]

Black people doin' this for years... My mother didn't throw away grease until the french fries tasted like fish... I remember going to school many a-morning glissin'...

[JR JAM]

Black people doin' this for years... My mother didn't throw away grease until the french fries tasted like fish... I remember going to school many a-morning glissin'...

or onion rings

[Vinyl Deficit]

We have a fryer that has a basket and a hinged lid. I cook stuff in there a few times before I change it. It depends on what I cook in there. You can cook french fries in there quite a few times if it's the only thing you cook. But if I cook something like chicken fried steak or other breaded things, it gets nasty quick. I mostly go by smell to tell when I want to change the oil.

[dj-chefron]

If the oil is not burnt you can reuse it till it breaks down just remember the oil will take on the flavors of the food its fried in.

[ProvocativeElement]

When I was a little girl, my grandmother had a 'Grease Can' on the stove. I literally said "Grease"

under the lid, there was a little strainer for the pork chop, fish, fried chicken particles.

We hardly ever fry chicken, fish, etc in my household, but we do fry a helluva lot of plaintain (at least once a week) so yes, we do have an old coffee can of grease on the stove.

That's right, I got a grease can (ain't no shame in my game)

[DUBFLY]

Black people doin' this for years... My mother didn't throw away grease until the french fries tasted like fish... I remember going to school many a-morning glissin'...

Real Talk Right Here !!!!!!!

LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fred da warrior]

"Boy, roll that Sunday paper into a funnel and po that grease back in the bottle when it cool off...."

[Jamie 3:26]

I used to avoid certian folks houses on fridays.Old fish grease has a smell that will stay in your clothes...uuuugh.

I make sure my bedroom door is closed while something's being fried.I hate the smell of grease/cooked food in my clothes.

Been like that since I was young.

[E-Phi]

There's always a use for an empty coffee can (metal or plastic). I'm jes sayin'....

Hell, I have a few myself

[BHouse]

Run out of lotion - go to the grease can...
All out of Blue Magic hair grease - go get the grease can...
Got a squeeky door - go grab the grease can...
Chap lips - dip yo finger in the grease can...
Out of KY jelly - that's right... the grease can...
Can't fit in those jeans... - Grease can!!!
Just washed the car and no Armor All - Grease can...
Bitches wanna fight on the block - Take off yo ear rings and rub some grease on yo face...
Caught yo man cheatin' - Hot grease...
Cookin' hoe cakes - Use the grease can (Hoes gotta eat too...)

[Chris Wood]

stick it in your petrol tank ;)

['Magic' Juan]

Run out of lotion - go to the grease can...
All out of Blue Magic hair grease - go get the grease can...
Got a squeeky door - go grab the grease can...
Chap lips - dip yo finger in the grease can...
Out of KY jelly - that's right... the grease can...
Can't fit in those jeans... - Grease can!!!
Just washed the car and no Armor All - Grease can...
Bitches wanna fight on the block - Take off yo ear rings and rub some grease on yo face...
Caught yo man cheatin' - Hot grease...
Cookin' hoe cakes - Use the grease can (Hoes gotta eat too...)

lol

[Ernest Fountain]

Black people doin' this for years... My mother didn't throw away grease until the french fries tasted like fish... ...

LOL!!!

yeah, sometimes fried food does taste better in used oil, depending on what was cooked in it before, the seasonings used in it, etc. in my household, fried fish grease was always separated from the others though.

[Kenrick _]

I used to avoid certian folks houses on fridays.Old fish grease has a smell that will stay in your clothes...uuuugh.

I make sure my bedroom door is closed while something's being fried.I hate the smell of grease/cooked food in my clothes.

Been like that since I was young.

I have an oil can (well its actually a bottle) too... But I here you. I don't deep fry often but when I do I set it up on the balcony. I hate that stale oil smell all up in the apt.

[panklady]

Grease can-check in! Yup we had it at my momma's house...not mine though. I don't fry too much food and when I do...it's pan fried...with olive oil.

[Bill Blake]

If you're having to recycle oil for frying...you're eating too much fried food.

[TAD]

lol @ this thread but to answer the question, i wouldn't do it. hot oil creates transfats and produces toxins when oxidized. (carcinogens) every time you use it you lower the smoke point. chuck it. max 1 time if necessary. better to use peanut oil or coconut oil, not corn, safflower, or canola oil when reusing. they are more stable oils.

[Armento]

If you're having to recycle oil for frying...you're eating too much fried food.

that's what i'm sitting here thinking.. all these non-stick frying pans are so good now... i NEVER deep fry anything. 4 porkchops last night fried on 2 tablespoons of olive oil

[TAD]

that's what i'm sitting here thinking.. all these non-stick frying pans are so good now... i NEVER deep fry anything. 4 porkchops last night fried on 2 tablespoons of olive oil

hahaha that's like trying to lower your cholesterol with, well........
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pork chops!!!

[Moksha]

hot oil creates transfats and produces toxins when oxidized. (carcinogens) every time you use it you lower the smoke point. chuck it.

exactly

[mhd]

damn, i thought this thread was about bio-diesel cars

[Dee-Dee Sheridan]

B-House, you are so crazy!

[Chris Conrad]

exactly

try explaining this to anyone on here and out come the anti-vegetarian, anti-anything that's healthy rants...