Best Practices for Cooking Oil Maintenance

Cooking oil prices are skyrocketing. Here's how to make your oil last longer without serving soggy frieAs the demand for petroleum alternatives like biofuel intensifies, so does demand for the ingredients that make this fuel – most notably, the price of used cooking oil. If you are a restaurant owner or manager, you may have noticed the price of frying oil skyrocketing over the last year. In fact, has gone up close to 70 percent since January of 2020.

Even after your restaurant fryer oil is spent, it still has value. Again, used cooking oil is what is driving this boom. Some are even referring to it as liquid gold, which sounds nice, but for restaurants, that means an increased prevalence of theft. Grease theft is on the rise as well, and while that may not that may not seem like a serious crime, it’s an eight-figure black market that is making thieves rich. Some are making as much as $1,500 per day off stolen oil. This also means potential property damage and increased…