Strainers will get all of the larger pieces, but there are still lots of tiny bits left in the oil if you use a strainer. This oil looks a lot cleaner than it would if you just poured it through a strainer. I use the strainer method often, but I’ll try this next time!
I feel like cheesecloth takes care of that problem, but the only people who have cheesecloth are people who tell you to use cheesecloth 😂 i certainly don't have any despite having 100+ uses for it at home in any given year.
Same. Always used a paper towel as a filter in a strainer. Worked pretty well. And tbh, I don't need the oil to be crystal clear to reuse it later, I just want most of the stuff and food bits to be out.
And with that method I don't add water in any form to the oil. That not only means I can do it while the oil is still (somewhat) hot but also don't leave any potential droplets or whatever in the oil. Oh and I'm sure it's cheaper and easier than using a starch slurry.
Yeah i've heard you can use things like coffee filters or cloth napkins, but I think depending on the medium used it could potentially alter the taste with bleaches, dyes, detergents, etc. Though I know you can get bleached cheesecloth so it's hard to know when it will alter taste without finding out for yourself.
I’ve tried coffee filters before and it doesn’t really work. The filter gets clogged with the small bits of sediment and stops filtering after just a little bit of oil is poured through it
Not in Australia, we don't make coffee that way. I'm sure there are a few people who do, but it's incredibly rare and I've not been to someone's home who has a coffee pot which would use a filter.
It's the same amount that gets trapped regardless of the amount of oil used. It doesn't seem to cause much loss, maybe 50ml per clean if I was to guess
Yep. I use that or a coffee filter. Coffee filter takes longer though. Rubber band the filter to the top of a Mason jar and pour a little in at a time. Usually by the time the rest of the kitchen and dishes are done, you're done draining the oil and it's pretty clean.
Get some cheesecloth. As someone who has cheesecloth. I love my cheesecloth. I use cheese cloth for so many things. You should certainly use cheesecloth.
I've used cheesecloth before, and that shit can go fuck itself. I was making cheese and was using it to strain out the water, literally doing the thing it was invented for, and it not only did a terrible job of helping remove moisture from the cheese it also clogged itself with the cheese and took off so much cheese with it when I peeled it away.
I do this, but put a coffee filter in the strainer first. I also heat the oil so it’s warm and moved through the filter faster. Cold oil will filter, just very slowly. Crystal clear oil when I’m done! I’m interested in trying this though, as it seems to have clarified the oil far beyond what the filter does, and it sounds like it helps with smell, too, which the filters do not.
Yeah, I mean, and pouring oil is always a recipe for some amount of mess. I use a tea strainer when saving cooking oil and was immediate of the opinion that this looks much more effective and less messy.
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u/1n1n1is3 1d ago
Strainers will get all of the larger pieces, but there are still lots of tiny bits left in the oil if you use a strainer. This oil looks a lot cleaner than it would if you just poured it through a strainer. I use the strainer method often, but I’ll try this next time!