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The Five Secrets of Maintaining Frying Oil – A Guide to Better Fried Food

Cooking oil is quite expensive, so the proper care and maintenance of deep fryer oil could mean saving significant dollars and improving the overall quality of your fried food.

Save Money and Have Better Fried Food by Doing These Five Things

Don’t waste vegetable oil (WVO) or other cooking oil. Cooking oil is quite expensive, so the proper care and maintenance of deep fryer oil could mean saving significant dollars and improving the overall quality of your fried food. In this three-minute video, John Woods, a renowned expert at frying, shares his practical tips for defeating the three enemies of frying oil. Easy ways how to clean oil, care for, store, and select the best oil for deep frying will add enjoyment and enhanced flavor to your future frying experience. Check out the video, Five Factors for Frying Fabulous Fish.

John Woods is known as “Mr. Catfish” and is a recognized authority on the subject of cooking US Pond Raised-Catfish. His catfish cooking career has spanned more than three decades. He has cooked catfish and accompanying side dishes for tens of thousands of people across the United States and Canada through his catering company. His restaurants, featuring pond-raised catfish, were highly successful, and his recipes are still in demand.

Woods’ series, Fifty Ways to Love a Catfish, is a comprehensive series on the “How to” of deep-frying fish, baking fish, broiling fish, searing fish, steaming fish, smoking fish, stewing fish, grilling fish, air-frying fish, oven-fried fish, and even sous-vide of cooking this fantastic and versatile fish. Some have called this series: the video Bible” of cooking catfish.

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Video Summary

Critical points for maintaining, storing, cleaning, and caring for deep frying oil:

  1. Oil hates water. Avoid allowing excess water from fried items to get into the oil, especially ice-covered things.
  2. Oil hates excessive heat. Use oils appropriate for cooked items; high-temperature items require an oil with a high smoke point. Don’t exceed the oils smoke point.
  3. Don’t let excess breading or spices get into hour oil. Shake breaded products to remove extra breading. Pre-breaded items should be removed from their packaging, so the excess breading in the bottom of the bag or box does not get poured into the frying oil.
  4. Properly filter oil after each use. This will add significant life to your oil. It is ok to reuse fry oil time after time.
  5. Store oil in an air-tight container.