On Jul 11, 5:24Â*pm, Sheldon > wrote:
> Jeffy3 wrote:
> > I'm new to occasional deep-frying and everyone recommends cheese
> > cloth
> > or coffee filters, and I've tried to coffee filter method with a
> > funnel but the process is so slow and the funnel only holds so much
> > so
> > I have to keep coming back every ten minutes to pour some more oil
> > in. � �Does anybody have any good ideas ?
>
> If you don't mix the foods you deep fry you won't need to filter...
> don't use the same oil for chicken and fries as you use for fish...
> even commercial establishments don't mix mild foods with strong
> flavored foods with the same oil. Â*Commercial filtering systems are
> very expensive and are only worthwhile if you're doing that kind of
> volume. Â*For home use keep a separate container of oil for french
> fries and fritters, and another for chicken, and yet another for
> fish. Â*When the potato oil begins to get too funky for fries use it
> for chicken then when too funky for chicken it may still be fine for
> frying fish. Â*Depending on what foods you fry will dictate how to
> rotate your oil. Â*You can still filter out bits of breading, with a
> metal strainer, but it's pretty silly to attempt to filter oil with so
> fine a mesh that you are trying to make it brand new... the funky
> flavor/odor will not filter out no matter how fine the filter, and one
> major spill will negate any savings, plus deep frying oil is not all
> that expensive. Â*And if you watch your frying temps are not too hot
> your oil will last far longer than if you're burning the sediment.
> Many folks simply pour the oil into a container that allows the oil to
> sit until the sediment settles to the bottom and then carefully pour
> the oil back leaving the last inch or so with all the schmutz in the
> container to dispose of.

Sounds like good advice. I have only used it for wings so far and
don't expect to use it for anything else. The few times I've used our
deep fryer I didn't deal with the oil until the next day and did
notice that most of the debris was at the bottom.