Just a paper bag now. At this point they’re gonna bring back the supersize but it’ll just be a large lol
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What do you do with 2 litres of oil then?
This is always my concern. Actually frying something takes minutes, but heating, cooling, straining, and storing significant volumes of oil just doesn't justify the convenience. If I want fried food, I'm going to a restaurant.
Bought a deep fryer a couple years back, once you're done with it, and let it cool down. You can turn a knob and it will filter itself and empty into a storage container. Once the oil has gone bad, I have a Home Depot bucket with a lid that I dump it into, once that is full I take it to the dump. Once the filtered bits are dumped in the compost, everything else goes in the dishwasher.
I fry in peanut oil, I have 2 air fryers but some things need to be deep fried.
I bought a deep fryer for $100ish. Makes it easy. Turn it on, come back 10minutes later, cook food for 4 minutes and then eat. It is a bitch to clean though but depends on how thorough you want to be.
That literally solves none of the complaints.
It heats, cools, you can buy one with automatic filtering, and it stores the oil. That's literally all the complaints they had?
It does but your comment didn't say that outright and people who just avoid deep friers because they don't want to deal with the oil probably don't make assumptions about deep friers making it easy to deal with that stuff.
I didn't realize deep friers were more than fancy pots with stoves and temperature control built in and baskets so you don't have to fish the fish and chips out with tongs. If I had more space and less fat, I might even have gotten one now that I understand they can also help manage the oil.
Probably better to get a rice cooker, though.
My ex had a nice one that he used about once a week. Made his kitchen smell like fast food after a few months. I'd like to have one except for that
I do it on a little table outside my back door. It definitely stinks up the house otherwise. My fryer has a little lid that you can put on it after the oil cools. You can reuse the oil a bit depending on what you're cooking.
Drink it
I agree. Don't waste it, just drink it.
It's the next Big Thing: Oil Cocktails!
Air fryer and you don’t need any oil. And they come out as crisp as if they were fried in oil, and they’re healthier.
Air fryer really changed the way I cook.
Fresh potatoes still need a layer of oil over them in order to be crisp in the airfryer.
Frying is the transference of heat through oil or fat. Air "frying" is just heating.
Make churros. Mix same amount water and flour with a bit of salt. Press out with a churro maker, fry for 2 minutes, cool, sprinkle sugar and serve with hot chocolate
You can reuse it several times by running it through a cheese cloth. Otherwise just put it in a jar/pitcher/empty oil bottle.
You don't actually need that much oil if you use a parchment paper origami box
Cocktails. Just need some bottles.
I fry other things, and know the oil struggle, but for fries, I've been using the air fryer recently with success. (America's test kitchen recipe works)
My wife fries them in a cast iron pan with a little oil.
It’s call use a smaller pot and less oil. You don’t need 2 litres every time you fry…
Restaurants also reuse oil a bunch by simply filtering out the big particles.
One the oil has cooled down and run through a filter you can store it again for later.
I'm cooking for several persons. Even with just 2 litres I have to do batches if I make fried tofu or Pakoras.
Okay so you have use for 2 litres. Why did you ask what to do with two litres of oil?
Did you mean after? Let it cool and filter and store it for the next meal.
Get a dedicated appliance which also stores the oil. Put the whole appliance away, including the oil, after use. Been doing this for years and you can store oil like this forever
You should be filtering the oil and eventually it does get burnt out. But yeah it’s super easy to maintain a basic deep fryer.
Mine has an integrated filter, so I don’t even have to care of this. The oil pan and accessories are dishwasher safe, so super easy to clean. And in my case, where I only use it like 4-5 times a year, I don’t have to change the oil often. Using the same oil for 2 years now without issues.