How often the fast food replace their oil ? Any audit here?

[Lv3338]

In taiwan, the big guys are caught for replacing the oil after a week.... to 2...

and now they set standard to dictate the oil change in fast foods..

 

Is fast food healthy here? any organisation that audit them here?

 

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/0...8/78/1m220.html

 

又是麥當勞

[Ahgongwolve]

dunno ..dont care....

 

[Byond]

In 1991 to 1992, was working in KFC.

The norm to change the frying oil was approx 2 weeks per change.

Anyway, fyi, the residue of the frying oil was the essense in making the gravy for the whip potato if you dont know..

 

Hot water mixed with the solid residue (left over from deep frying),

then blend together to get the gravy

[Donut]

2 weeks change is gross...

 

no wonder we are all having cancers and all kinds of strange illness these days.........

 

[Friendstar]

2 weeks change is gross...

 

no wonder we are all having cancers and all kinds of strange illness these days.........

 

 

u should hear the western food stalls in hawker centres....

[JonEthan]

we change everyday, but our stall not as big as KFC.

[Parkingidiot]

i think they clean the oil everyday by filtering...but actual change of new oil probably once a week.

[Curahee]

2 weeks change is gross...

 

no wonder we are all having cancers and all kinds of strange illness these days.........

 

Nowadays i avoid eating fast food, its basically junk.

[Snowbell]

we sometimes reuse the oil at hme to deep fry food like chicken wings for own consumption.use until the oil turns black then throw.

[Pcslim]

All of us did not get to see their oil. Want to see how does it look like? Go visit any of the Shihlin Taiwanese outlets around the isalnd - their blackened, heavily-recycled oil is visible to all. It should look something like that. lol.

[Parkingidiot]

once the oil starts smoking..i think that means the oil is breaking down... and should not be used any further. Until then, it can be filtered and reused safely.

 

more info: http://www.culinary-yours.com/frying_oil.html

 

[Lv3338]

u are right...that's a layman way of looking for smoking....without analysing physically the oil content for unhealthy substance..

[Byond]

lets imagine how much the oil gets deep fried everyday? how much the oil can fry so many pcs of chicken?

imagine that over a day period..its gross and unhealthy

imagine that over a week period... its very gross and unhealthy

now over a 2 weeks period...

MAN..u will not even want to think about it

 

then taking into consideration, its a fast food restuarant...

well, how often we expect them to change their oil when we pay this amount for their food?

they are running a business...

we cannot really expect them to do the best when we are only paying them such an amount....

[Mustank]

recycled cooking oil is big business in SG

 

the filtered cooking oil is used as bio diesel

 

euro 3 and below diesel chaps can use it

 

all the euro 4 and above chaps, don touch this

 

so if you are a heavy user of cooking oil, don dump the black gold down the drain

 

sell it to recycyling companies.

 

off course you got to have a certain quaintiy before they start buying from you

[Detion]

Once work in Macdonald. Their deep fying machines have a filter function and they filter their oil and clean the stove every few days.. But they change their oil only when it reaches a certain colour if I am not wrong.

 

To change the oil everyweek is quite wasteful. The oil is like about 3-4 litres per stove if you change.

[Zyrofillica]

they should change the oil every 10000km worth of deep frying. hehe

[Leepee]

Taiwan Boleh!

 

Really very glad that Taiwan has this type of super active consumer rights group that goes around inspecting and checking on food and things.

 

Well done Taiwan...keep up the good work.

 

[Ahseng]

In 1991 to 1992, was working in KFC.

The norm to change the frying oil was approx 2 weeks per change.

Anyway, fyi, the residue of the frying oil was the essense in making the gravy for the whip potato if you dont know..

 

Hot water mixed with the solid residue (left over from deep frying),

then blend together to get the gravy

 

 

WTF???? fo sure??? .........................man i loved whipped potato b4 this....esp the gravy.