More Guests, More Profit
Dealing with cooking oil, especially in restaurants serving fried food, is considered a standard process in kitchen management. Focusing on the chemistry and technology of food, as well as best practices for filtering cooking oil will lead to a higher volume of guests and higher profits.
Extend the Life of Your Cooking Oil
Start with correctly operating and regularly cleaning your deep-frying equipment. Next, figure out how to avoid or minimize the exposure to UV light and keep the cooking oil away from metal and salt sources. Lastly, extend the life of your cooking oil through regularly filtering it. This will ensure more consistent, quality food results and lower costs.
Even the best quality ingredients cooked in expensive commercial fryers can be ruined when placed into unfiltered oil. It is vital to regularly perform proper oil filtration in order to run a successful operation.
Why Filtering is Critical
Suspended particles and sediment can quickly contaminate fryer oil in restaurants from small bits of food to particles floating around the kitchen. Not filtering and using this dirty oil can lead to poor tasting and discolored food. Unfiltered oil directly leads to inconsistent food quality, which directly leads to dissatisfied customers. Customers notice when a food’s color, smell, or taste is off.
In this age of instant broadcasting, receiving consistent, positive online reviews is more important than ever. Dependably satisfying customers’ expectations keeps them coming back and keeps those positive reviews rolling in. Using good, filtered cooking oil ensures you’ll be serving great food and that your customer base will continue to return for more.
Extending the Life of Your Oil Saves You Money
Keeping your eye on kitchen expenses, including fryer oil, has always been one of the biggest and most important parts of food preparation. Vegetable oil prices have soared in the last two years, well beyond the inflation of other foods. Specifically, food oil prices have gone up over 70%.
An oil filtration machine makes sense to save costs on oil, rather than replacing the oil in the deep fryer every time. It’s more important than ever to take steps to make your oil last longer as the prices of cooking oil skyrockets.
Cooking Oil Filtration Challenges
Create a schedule for your kitchen staff to filter the cooking oil in order to offer the best quality food. Doing so can extend the life of the oil and protect the color, smell, and taste of the food you prepare and serve. Experts and fryer manufacturers recommend filtering cooking oil twice daily after busy meal times.
Thanks to current technology, you can set a standardized filtration schedule that’s ideal for your kitchen. You can have contaminants in the cooking oil removed following standard procedure on a schedule through monitoring done by filtration technology.
Between filterings, employees should routinely skim oil for any food particles during the day. Additionally, your kitchen team should be trained in carefully using their senses to examine the oil, smell it, and taste the food. Well-trained kitchen staff can often tell the state of their restaurant fryer oil simply by walking past the fryer!
Systems and Processes for Oil Filtration
Now that you are aware of how important it is to filter your cooking oil, you are faced with a choice: Do you choose a built-in filtration system or a portable filter machine?
Built-In Filters
Built-in filtration systems are a big, plus as they filter the cooking oil within the unit. When buying new fryers, this is a more expensive option initially, but it is a faster, safer, more convenient option. It comes with a series of drawers in the fryer itself, so it doesn’t require any additional storage space. This type of fryer filter may come with a waste oil disposal port that allows you to install a connection directly to a used cooking oil tank and automatically discard oil.
Fryer Filters that are Portable
If you’re not ready to spend the money for a built-in fryer filter just yet, a portable filtration machine is still an efficient option. Portable fryer filters can be moved around the kitchen and cost less upfront than a built-in one. Portable filtration units can be used on several different types of fryers, and allow you to easily transfer used oil to the storage tank when it can no longer be filtered.
Final Thoughts
Your cooking oil return on investment (ROI) and its lifespan is maximized through effective, efficient, and safe oil filtration. Additionally, good filtration practices help provide high-quality, consistent fried foods to the customers.
While you’re thinking about filtering cooking oil, start thinking about your used cooking oil container. Oil can’t be filtered forever, and you need the right storage tank to keep spent oil until it can be collected. Contact Darling Ingredients Canada today to find the best UCO system for you. 1-800-263-0302
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