Centrifuge

[jack avant]

I was wondering if any one out there was using a centrifuge to clean up WVO? Some claim that they will seperate the veggie oil from the animal fats. I am having a hard time filtering my oil in cold weather. Comments and suggestions welcome.

[airbus]

Either change your WVO source or filter your WVO inside. The colder it gets, the harder it is to filter, although good WVO to run a car on should still flow at 30F. I'm getting mine from a seafood place. They change weekly, so it is pretty clean, and since I drain their fryers myself while they're still luke warm, it's basically free of water. I have a filtering setup in my basement where it is around 60F and I gravity filter through 100micron, then 50, 25, 10 and 5 with no problems. No centrifuge, no heating of the oil, just bag filters.

Some veggy oils gel earlier than others, so it's not necessarily animal fats causing your problem. Try to find a place that uses soybean oil, fries only seafood or vegetables, and changes the oil often.

Also check the frybrid forum, I learned a lot there.

http://www.frybrid.com/forum/