Deep fat fryer

I know someone who does that as well...but there is a distinct and very recognisable smell that seems to linger...

When petrol prices went silly here a year or so ago (yeah, I know, as opposed to now when they are only mildly silly!) a lot of people were resorting to this idea. Not sure if it's happening as much though.

Goodness, all these different thoughts from Alice asking about a deep fat fryer! :hehe:

 

Yep, I know someone that does that.
Apparently he filters the oil through coffee filters as an ongoing basis, and then just puts it in his diesel motor.
I think some of the less sophisticated diesels will run on any low grade junk.

I think there is a limit how much you can use per month but as usual its unenforceable.

Bet they class those vehicles as low emission as well, so pay almost no road tax.

The buses around here used to run on rape seed oil, it just smelt awful, a bit like a mobile chip van.:D

 

Mmm, had chips and onion rings last night .. today I've had the chore I hate which is cleaning the basket ... yuk ..

Anybody got any good way to clean the basket? When t'other half has the pressure washer out I manage to get it in along with the racks from the oven ... :hehe:

 

Put it in the dishwasher on "intensive."

A golfing friend put the cylinder head of one of the cars he's restoring in his, after his wife had gone to bed of course!

 

"Cleaning the basket"?

Do we need to do such things, it get sterilised every time its used.

 

Well, you tell us Pete !
Otherwise how do you get rid of all the little bits of fish batter before cooking the apple fritters :cnfs:

 

I am obviously one of these rare creatures in life who doesn't believe in dishwashers ... well,I actually use what God gave me .... they are my lovely hands with long nails ... :hehe:

I had a dishwasher in the States in the 70s and put a load in overnight as one does / did in my case and I got up in the morning and almost fell across the kitchen / dining floor .. the dishwasher in it's wsdom broke down and all night long spewed boiling water out under the floorboards (in Alabama houses are built with an airspace under because of the heat) ... and since then I've sworn never to have one.

Our builder renovating our cottage here here was shocked I refused to have one put in my 'designer kitchen'. That's okay, I don't mind washing a few dishes as we eat out a lot ... :yho:

 

Dishwashers have come a long way in the last few years, ours tells us when it needs more rinse aid.
We've had them for decades and it was the first domestic appliance each of our three kids bought when they left home. Ours is on three times in two days on average. My wife does the cooking and just walks out of the kitchen once the meal's been served up. That's her half of the job. I've just been into the kitchen, cleared away, loaded the "dishy" and wiped down all the surfaces with using ant-bacterial spray. Five minutes, job done and dusted. I'll unload it and put the stuff away in a couple of hours, another five minute job.
Each to their own but I think it's impossible to get everything really clean without one. Most people who have them wouldn't want to go back to "washing plates in dirty water and drying up with damp tea towels."

 

Oh Victoria ! No dishwasher !
The only thing I regret about mine is all the years I wasted washing dishes when a dishwasher would have done it for me :luv::luv::luv:

 

And yes, I agree with Doghouse. The dishwasher does the job so much better. Just sparkling clean.

 

Hiya Doghouse ... there are no 'that's her half of the job' in this household ... t'other half after 43 years together still doesn't know where anything is in the house irrespective of which house it is.

He cannot put his hands into water I wash the dishes in .. he's says it's boiling ... I can without rubber gloves (too kinky for me) and I change the water doing glasses first then plates, having rinsed them all first, and I would never dream of drying dishes with a teatowel ... I leave them to dry naturally for an hour. I actually don't mind doing this as I am retired and have 'time on my hands ' ..........:hehe:

 

Could say the same about the years we wasted with a twin-tub clothes washing machine, and before that a single tub and wringer

Dishwashers are the GREEN way to go. Overall they consume less water and power than doing repeated single washes by hand.:gnthb:

 

As I previously said .. we eat out a lot ... :yho:

 

No deep-fat fryer or dishwasher in this house either.

I used to have a one of the 'old fashioned' fryers - i.e. a glorified saucepan that came with a basket - but I think I used it 2 or 3 times before it got binned. Not only can I not stand the smell of hot oil but (unless they've changed), there were always dire warnings about the toxins which build up if you use the oil over and over again - I think 5 times is now the recommended limit - then what? You have to dispose of the oil you've used and bung in yet another bottle of the stuff. I seldom fry anything and a bottle of cooking oil therefore lasts me weeks and weeks. Besides, my kitchen is only 14' x 14', by the time I've got a sink, draining board, cooker and fridge/freezer in there, the worktop is only so big, and if I had a toaster, fryer, breadmaker and all the other latest 'must have' paraphernalia, there'd be no worktop space left!

And I'm with Victoria re dishwashers, I've never had one (not even when there were 5 of us in this house) and personally, I've never seen the point - when I'm cooking I usually wash-up as I go and put things away and there'd be little point in putting a machine on to wash up a couple of plates and cups and, whilst you're washing up those two plates and a saucepan or whatever, it takes very little extra time to wash up 4, 5 or 8 plates and cups. Me - I prefer the extra cupboard space.

 

If we're talking about domestic appliances, then I could live without a dishwasher (dishes can be washed by hand, it's not that difficult) or even a fridge (you can buy food fresh every day if need be).
But the one domestic appliance I could not do without is a washing machine. Life is simply too busy and too short to be dragging clothes to a laundrette or (shudder) washing them by hand, especially large items like jeans or sheets.