Peanut Oil

What to do with the Oil

  • Continue to store it for next year or whenever I fry another turkey

    Votes: 10 55.6%

  • Get rid of it QUICK- Its a carcinogen

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Give it away to someone who will use it right away

    Votes: 3 16.7%

  • Put it out for recycling

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Total voters
    18
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I have several gallons of used peanut oil leftover from making 2 fried turkeys for Turkey Day. The oil is clear and appears of re-usable quality.

What should I do with it?
 
Use it up for french fries, fish fry, fried chicken, onion rings, etc now
 
freeze it and keep it.
 
Wrassle in it?




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Don't know how long it will keep. Got any plans to use it again before Thanksgiving?
 
Keep it. It's the cowboy way.

You'll be able to tell if it goes rancid.
 
Matthew said:
Don't know how long it will keep. Got any plans to use it again before Thanksgiving?
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Was going to have some folks over to shoot the breeze and fry another...but........:dunno:when
 
Find someone making their own biodiesel in their garage, and donate it to them? :)
 
denverpilot said:
Find someone making their own biodiesel in their garage, and donate it to them? :)
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Guy at my work does that. Before I knew about it, he drove by me in the parking lot at lunch time and suddenly I was thinking, "who's cooking french fries?"

Guess I was hungry. :D
 
I'd go with the filter it and mix it with the diesel for your TDI. Should work great. I believe the ratio to use for fuel that isn't pre heated is 10 diesel to 1 of filtered peanut oil. If you go richer on the peanut oil you'll need to heat the fuel tank to keep wax from plugging things up.

Frank
 
Greg Bockelman said:
Heck, filter it and dump it in as is. It will burn just fine.
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I heard a story and have idea if this true, but....It was told that the Diesel engine was originally designed to run on vegitable oil and not petroleum oil. If true it is funny that we are now getting to actually running Diesel with vegi-oil
 
BiffJ said:
I'd go with the filter it and mix it with the diesel for your TDI. Should work great. I believe the ratio to use for fuel that isn't pre heated is 10 diesel to 1 of filtered peanut oil. If you go richer on the peanut oil you'll need to heat the fuel tank to keep wax from plugging things up.

Frank
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where does the wax come from ?
 
BiffJ said:
I'd go with the filter it and mix it with the diesel for your TDI. Should work great. I believe the ratio to use for fuel that isn't pre heated is 10 diesel to 1 of filtered peanut oil. If you go richer on the peanut oil you'll need to heat the fuel tank to keep wax from plugging things up.

Frank
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Can't use bio in all the TDIs. I have a 2010 TDI and it is only able to burn up to 5% Bio. The reason is the emission system. The engine can handle it just fine, but too much bio and the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) will not be cleaned properly and can become chronically clogged.
 
Tom-D said:
where does the wax come from ?
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The wax is a component of the oil and will gel at some temp. Different types of wax gel at different temps. The conversion process used to make biodiesel from veggie oil converts a good deal of the wax to compounds that do not gel until they reach a much lower temp. Because the peanut oil used for cooking the turkey has not been refined or converted it will still have some of these wax components that gel at higher temps. This is bad for diesel use. By diluting with normal petro diesel the anti-wax additives will prevent wax in the peanut oil (and its acquired animal greases from the turkey) from gelling and plugging filters or injectors.

I know a number of guys who run straight veggie oil in their diesels but they start on petro diesel and use hot water from the cooling system to heat the veggie tanks prior to switching to them for running. It helps reduce viscosity and reduces the chance of wax gelling.

Frank
 
ScottM said:
I heard a story and have idea if this true, but....It was told that the Diesel engine was originally designed to run on vegitable oil and not petroleum oil. If true it is funny that we are now getting to actually running Diesel with vegi-oil
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While that's nice and all I hate the thought that now the world is gonna smell like downwind of McDonalds.
 
ScottM said:
Can't use bio in all the TDIs. I have a 2010 TDI and it is only able to burn up to 5% Bio. The reason is the emission system. The engine can handle it just fine, but too much bio and the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) will not be cleaned properly and can become chronically clogged.
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There you go, mix it in 2 liters per tankfull and you'll have no issue. After it's been heated and cooled, you are correct, it's a carcinogen.
 
Henning said:
There you go, mix it in 2 liters per tankfull and you'll have no issue. After it's been heated and cooled, you are correct, it's a carcinogen.
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Care to expand on the carcinogen part?
 
Henning said:
I can't, my dad (MS Chemistry + MD) explained it to me, I just nodded and took it in, I can't regurgitate what all happens in the middle of the process.
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Pretty much only if you get the oil so hot that you smoke it, but you are decomposing the oil at that point. Most things generate carcinogens you you start getting them so hot they decompose. Peanut oil has a high smoke point compared to other oils.
 
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