[Snake]

I'm lining up my sources of WVO and some of them aren't "big" restaurants, meaning they go through less than 15 gallons of oil per week. Two of the restaurant owners I spoke with heat their oil up to clean their fryers and then dispose of it......

Will the 5 gallon buckets (with lids) that you can buy at Home Depot be okay to collect the WVO? The one guy is using this kind of bucket to collect the WVO right out of the fryer when its hot. I'm wondering if the heated WVO will deteriorate the plastic and contaminate the oil.

:dunno:

Thanks!

--Snake

 

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Sounds kinda scarry to me. Hot oil in a plastic pucket?

 

[mdub707]

The restaurant I tried wouldn't pour the hot oil into my 5-gal buckets, and I cant blame them. I dont think I'd do that...

 

[Clay Henry]

tell them to use the empty 5 gallon cubies...hot oil will not melt these. I tryed it myself.

 

[Snake]

They said their oil comes in plastic jugs (approx 5 gal each). :dunno:

--Snake

 

[mdub707]

They said their oil comes in plastic jugs (approx 5 gal each). :dunno:

--Snake

Those are the "cubies" everyone refers to.



Clay, I dont know if that's how they even come, I've never seen any kicking around there.... I'm not too worried, I plan on putting a 55gal steel drum over there this weekend. Good oil source too, its a ritzy restaurant who changes their oil every night. Just wish it wasn't 2 hours from where I live now.

 

[wilson & Co]

I just got a new source today that puts it in 5gal buckets...

fine with me. 5 gal a week and free buckets!

 

[Clay Henry]

I just got a new source today that puts it in 5gal buckets...

fine with me. 5 gal a week and free buckets!

Are they used pickle buckets? :yikes:

 

[Clay Henry]

Clay, I dont know if that's how they even come, I've never seen any kicking around there.... I'm not too worried, I plan on putting a 55gal steel drum over there this weekend. Good oil source too, its a ritzy restaurant who changes their oil every night. Just wish it wasn't 2 hours from where I live now.

you mean in 5 gal. cubies? Some resturants buy it in 55 gal. barrels...not to many do that but some do.

 

[wilson & Co]

Are they used pickle buckets? :yikes:

OK, that's just freaky..Yes. what's the story there?

I told them I will be giving them my oil buckets to use for future...I assumed it contains acidic pickle juice

 

[Clay Henry]

..Yes.

:yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

 

[wilson & Co]

Yeah, so after I talked to her on the phone she said 5 gal buckets I was like OK fine... Then I ran out to pick it up and it was a pickle bucket.

NOT A BIG DEAL. I told her I'll have to give her my old Mobil1 5 Gal buckets and exchange them when I pickup.

No more pickle juice in my fuel.

Sounds like you ran into the same thing then.

 

[hheynow]

All my places pour it back in the cubies. They empty the fryer into a huge soup pot and let it cool over night then refill the cubies the next morning. Don't waste your money on clean 5 gal pails with lids. The restaurant will lessen its garbage amount by letting you reuse the cubies. I take all the cardboard and empty cubies to recycle. Tell them you'll do the same.

 

[Clay Henry]

Yeah, so after I talked to her on the phone she said 5 gal buckets I was like OK fine... Then I ran out to pick it up and it was a pickle bucket.

NOT A BIG DEAL. I told her I'll have to give her my old Mobil1 5 Gal buckets and exchange them when I pickup.

No more pickle juice in my fuel.

Sounds like you ran into the same thing then.

No i haven't had a problem with pickle juice ...just screwing with ya HOWEVER, i would not want pickle juice in my WVO...vinigar...acid....does not sound like a good thing.

 

[h2odrx]

All my places pour it back in the cubies. They empty the fryer into a huge soup pot and let it cool over night then refill the cubies the next morning. Don't waste your money on clean 5 gal pails with lids. The restaurant will lessen its garbage amount by letting you reuse the cubies. I take all the cardboard and empty cubies to recycle. Tell them you'll do the same.

That is what I do also, and any wet oil is left for the other company in the drum!

 

[lawman349]

I use a 35 gallon plastic agricultural sprayer tank. I fitted it with a spigot on the bottom to connect to a typical garden hose.

I take the buckets or bottles of oil from the restaurant and dump it through a screened funnel into the top of the tank. When I get back to the shop, I open the spigot and empty it into whatever I want.

...and if the WVO is HOT, its okay, as long as I already have 10-20 gallons of cool oil on board to cool it down. As I collect more oil from more places, I'll buy more 35 gallon tanks.

BTW- the tank was about $80 at Tractor Supply and has been worth every penny.

 

[Snake]

:hehe:

Pickle buckets! That's what the one guy I talked to suggested using, but with a lid that had a rubber gasket on it! I figured if that's what he's been using, a clean 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot with a lid would work.

But maybe not.

Dang it.

I gotta figure out a way of collecting the oil that's easy for the owner, easy for me, and has minimal chances of contamination.

If anyone needs me, I'll be surfing the internet. :rofl:

--Snake

 

[Motown Fire]

My restaurants put the oil back in the "cubbies" straight from the fryers. I come home and dump them into one of my totes and the cubbies go on the burn pile behind my house. It doesn't get any easier for the restaurants than that.

 

[h2odrx]

My restaurants put the oil back in the "cubbies" straight from the fryers. I come home and dump them into one of my totes and the cubbies go on the burn pile behind my house. It doesn't get any easier for the restaurants than that.

That is easy....

 

[Motown Fire]

That's some clean looking oil ya got there. What kind of places do you collect from???