No you’re absolutely right, I can’t eat food from a dirty fryer, it’s taste goes right to my gag reflex
thefupachalupa
You can walk in some places and immediately smell the bad oil, then promptly walk out.
oscarfletcher
He’s right tho.
GirlHair420
My place has very few fried items so we get away with changing and filtering about every 3-4 days, but lemme tell ya, if we let it go to that 5th day…
…let’s just say we don’t let it get to that 5th day 🤢
hisglasses66
Me understanding why my crispy chickens look crispy
clodmonet
My stomach sure knows when fryer oil was old.
TonyStewartsWildRide
Man, going out somewhere and tasting the burnt oil on my fried foods just sucks lol I’m not sure if I would notice before having worked in kitchens, but I certainly do now.
moneybullets
And gives you the runs.
DangleBob91
I took a week off once during a slow season and came back to hear “hey so I guess no one changed or even cleaned the oil all week can you help and do it” the second I walked in to start a prep shift. Immediately put my 2 week notice in that moment
Horse_Renoir
My brother in Zalgo, you’re giving me flash back to my days as the Publix chicken man. Those rotten fucking assholes in management would fight tooth and nail to keep the blackest and most watery “oil” you’ve ever seen because they were told that oil should last 90 days, no excuses. If it didn’t it was because we were cooking in it wrong.
Smelled vile, smoked like my great aunt, popped all over my skin every chance it got, and made everything look and smell like garbage. I have a picture of the vat of dark souls somewhere I should try to dig it out and post it.
Reminds me of when I was a GM of a Wingstop. Some locations were short staffed, and I would go over and close and help. Couldn’t believe how nasty and dirty their oil/fryers were. I had a customer tell me she lived close to the dirty one but drove 20 mins to my main location because of the difference in taste of the oil.
wemustburncarthage
because you’re talking to the waitress/sometimes bartender
dreadpiratesmith
The other day my partner and I ordered delivery. Tater tots and some other stuff. They were gooood. I mentioned “oh, that’s good clean fryer oil” and they were like “you can tell that”.. yes, 10000%
Bignosenick
THANK YOU
findallthebears
There’s a diner I like, but I always ask for the fries to be cooked more since they’re not very crispy. I’ve asked a bunch of different ways, no real luck.
The gm came out and politely informed me that “we can’t cook your fries as well as you want them because we only use clean oil”
I wish I had responded at all, but I couldn’t. I genuinely blue screened ???. I still to this day choose to believe that he was fucking with me because I can’t for the life of me figure out what in tarnation he could be talking about
THX1085
Old fryer oil is culinary terrorism
Nsfwacct1872564
I think there’s a sweet spot and I think that sweet spot is the second day because I absolutely hate brand new oil (but only in terms of deep frying)
bennubaby
Yup, had to walk out of a local spot cuz they served me chips and salsa and those chips were not only refried but the oil was RANK 🤮
Un3h
A place that I worked at would rotate the oil from the chip fryer, to the fish fryer, then AFTER that it went in the starter fryer, and at that point it was so dark that you couldn’t see what you put in the basket when lowered into the swamp oil.
How we didn’t kill anyone I will never know.
Stop_Fakin_Jax
They know, just lazy and dont care. I can imagine that reasoning, just not any logical reasoning.
bendar1347
Even worse when you can smell it outside from the hood vents.
skyalke
Unless it’s a late night shoarma shop, I leave immediately once I smell old oil
Reasonable_Idea_8580
Just cleaned ours. Don’t think it’s ever looked so clean.
Legitimate-Step-372
I worked at chipotle, and noticed my chips weren’t coming out as good as usual. I checked out our log (yes the manager was kookoo bananas and kept a log of deep cleaning duties) and discovered they had skipped the oil change for 3 or 4 weeks. When I tell you the fryer had a foot of chip debris inside covering up almost all of the heating element im not exaggerating. I took out 1 and a half hotel pans of it by hand because their fryers are super basic and didn’t have those auto cleaning settings
ChrispyGuy420
We used to change it twice a week. Since the new manager we change it every 2 weeks and it never actually has enough oil in both friers to submerge the food completely
Good_Presentation_59
There is a sweet spot though. I hate the taste from fresh oil. Day 2-3 tastes best
FatHenrysHouse
Thank you OP! I needed that. Literally laughed out loud and my eyes teared. 🙏
thesleepjunkie
He so smol
shetalkstoangels_
I love that everyone in the comments is on the same page
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No you’re absolutely right, I can’t eat food from a dirty fryer, it’s taste goes right to my gag reflex
You can walk in some places and immediately smell the bad oil, then promptly walk out.
He’s right tho.
My place has very few fried items so we get away with changing and filtering about every 3-4 days, but lemme tell ya, if we let it go to that 5th day…
…let’s just say we don’t let it get to that 5th day 🤢
Me understanding why my crispy chickens look crispy
My stomach sure knows when fryer oil was old.
Man, going out somewhere and tasting the burnt oil on my fried foods just sucks lol I’m not sure if I would notice before having worked in kitchens, but I certainly do now.
And gives you the runs.
I took a week off once during a slow season and came back to hear “hey so I guess no one changed or even cleaned the oil all week can you help and do it” the second I walked in to start a prep shift. Immediately put my 2 week notice in that moment
My brother in Zalgo, you’re giving me flash back to my days as the Publix chicken man. Those rotten fucking assholes in management would fight tooth and nail to keep the blackest and most watery “oil” you’ve ever seen because they were told that oil should last 90 days, no excuses. If it didn’t it was because we were cooking in it wrong.
Smelled vile, smoked like my great aunt, popped all over my skin every chance it got, and made everything look and smell like garbage. I have a picture of the vat of dark souls somewhere I should try to dig it out and post it.
Edit: Found the pic, this is from Nov 2021 [https://imgur.com/a/ahc5wBE](https://imgur.com/a/ahc5wBE)
Reminds me of when I was a GM of a Wingstop. Some locations were short staffed, and I would go over and close and help. Couldn’t believe how nasty and dirty their oil/fryers were. I had a customer tell me she lived close to the dirty one but drove 20 mins to my main location because of the difference in taste of the oil.
because you’re talking to the waitress/sometimes bartender
The other day my partner and I ordered delivery. Tater tots and some other stuff. They were gooood. I mentioned “oh, that’s good clean fryer oil” and they were like “you can tell that”.. yes, 10000%
THANK YOU
There’s a diner I like, but I always ask for the fries to be cooked more since they’re not very crispy. I’ve asked a bunch of different ways, no real luck.
The gm came out and politely informed me that “we can’t cook your fries as well as you want them because we only use clean oil”
I wish I had responded at all, but I couldn’t. I genuinely blue screened ???. I still to this day choose to believe that he was fucking with me because I can’t for the life of me figure out what in tarnation he could be talking about
Old fryer oil is culinary terrorism
I think there’s a sweet spot and I think that sweet spot is the second day because I absolutely hate brand new oil (but only in terms of deep frying)
Yup, had to walk out of a local spot cuz they served me chips and salsa and those chips were not only refried but the oil was RANK 🤮
A place that I worked at would rotate the oil from the chip fryer, to the fish fryer, then AFTER that it went in the starter fryer, and at that point it was so dark that you couldn’t see what you put in the basket when lowered into the swamp oil.
How we didn’t kill anyone I will never know.
They know, just lazy and dont care. I can imagine that reasoning, just not any logical reasoning.
Even worse when you can smell it outside from the hood vents.
Unless it’s a late night shoarma shop, I leave immediately once I smell old oil
Just cleaned ours. Don’t think it’s ever looked so clean.
I worked at chipotle, and noticed my chips weren’t coming out as good as usual. I checked out our log (yes the manager was kookoo bananas and kept a log of deep cleaning duties) and discovered they had skipped the oil change for 3 or 4 weeks. When I tell you the fryer had a foot of chip debris inside covering up almost all of the heating element im not exaggerating. I took out 1 and a half hotel pans of it by hand because their fryers are super basic and didn’t have those auto cleaning settings
We used to change it twice a week. Since the new manager we change it every 2 weeks and it never actually has enough oil in both friers to submerge the food completely
There is a sweet spot though. I hate the taste from fresh oil. Day 2-3 tastes best
Thank you OP! I needed that. Literally laughed out loud and my eyes teared. 🙏
He so smol
I love that everyone in the comments is on the same page