Cooking Oil --- Do you throw your cooking oil after your first use?

Yes it does save money, and my mom did the same thing,she would usually just drain the oil and keep it like your Mom did.When my Mom fried fish and she had grease left over she would save it and put it in the fridge and use it the next.She also saved all the grease off bacon to season with... I she fried fish for the furst time she would also save that grease to use to fry fish again..

I always save my cooking oil. If I grill or roast food that doesn't need any cooking oil and it makes it's own oil, I will also save this. After it has cooled, I keep it in a bowl in the fridge and use it again. As long as it is still clear I will continue to use it over again. It adds a nice flavour to fried eggs and also fried bread.

keeping the used cooking oil is a good way to save our budget on this thing. But when the oil is too many time been used, it is not a wise thing to do to keep it. As you know that when the oil become more darker it's mean the more cholesterol the oil contained. so you have to be careful with this thing, and make sure that the oil is not too dark as you will need to throw it away when the color become darker.

I used to have small appliance called a 'Fry Daddy'...it was an appliance into which one poured oil and lowered items into for deep frying. When I had that appliance I would use the oil maybe two times before throwing out, depending upon what I had lowered into it. I have gotten rid of that appliance due to how unhealthy it is to deep fry! I don't have the option now!!! As long as I had that appliacne I was tempted to use it!

I find that sometimes when I am cooking that I will throw out the cooking oil that I have used afterwards because I find that I can't really use it for anything else. Especially when the oil has so much left over stuff from the food that was in it before that I had cooked. Sometimes I find that it's not not like I will or can re-use the flavors from the grease I had already used to cook in something else. I find that.. The leftover cooking oil can't be re-used for something because it has floaties in it and crumbs from the previous cooking experience. I don't believe that this is in fact a healthy way to cook because you are re-introducing grease and other settled elements back into the food you just finished eating. Especially if I was using a skillet to brown hamburger or something and there is a lot of grease building up, I tend to turn to usually draining it by using a strainer and then I will dump the fat in a bucket afterwards. After doing this I will usually take the ground beef back into the pan and finish browning it. The fat will be eventually thrown away later on once it has solidified. On the other hand though.. When it comes to de-frying a lot of foods.. I do usually sometimes find that I will re-use the oil if I had deep fried things like fries or chicken nuggets before. I will hold on to the oil for another time openly if it is clean enough after deep frying the first time. I enjoy deep frying but I can say this, I would never use hamburger grease as something to deep fry with because of it's tendency to burn and smell bad when it is heated past a certain temperature. I am not opposed to saving oil but it has to be without having to pay a fee to dispose of it in all honesty. I know that I tend to de-fry some of the fries that I have on hand.. Not all to often though as I find that can be rather fattening if one was to do this on a regular basis. But I do find saving a lot of that oil helps me to save on money.. Because of the fact that I feel if I didn't decide to re-use some of this oil that I had used to de-fry my foods in before hand.. That I would have to keep on purchasing oil.. And I find it can be rather expensive.. Especially if one was deciding to deep fry there foods on a regular basis.. Though I honestly don't do this as I find deep frying your foods to much can be rather unhealthy. But I do find saving the oil to be rather beneficial. Especially if you are wanting to save on money.. I do agree that it can be a really big money saver if you do decide to save some of the oil that you had used before hand.. I know that I tend to not use it though over & over if it begins to have left over food from when you had used it before hand.. I know people who have done this.. And there kitchen ends up smelling of burnt food because they didn't end up clearing out some of the food that was still in the oil before deciding to use it.. In conclusion.. I know that for some foods I will decide to keep the oil & reuse it again afterwards. Though I would never do that when it comes to oil or grease from things such as hamburger or even bacon.. As the grease or oil sometimes can make the rest of your food taste like the food you had cooked before hand sometimes.. I know I do much rather prefer changing my oil quite often.. But when it comes to deep frying a lot of foods I have on hand.. I sometimes find I will re-use the oil I had used to cook my food.. But it honestly all depends on if the oil still looks clean.. If it doesn't I always end up chucking it.. As I'd much rather have fresh oil compared to dirty oil.. I find that to be unsanitary if one was to do this.. Especially when the oil looked rather unclean & unsanitary as well! . . Thanks for allowing me to share! xx

my mom has taught me the same thing. cooking oil (we use canola cuz it's healthier than regular ones) doesn't come cheap so reusing it can help you save a lot. we use 2 containers: 1 for cooking oil that has been used to fry chicken or pork, the other for the oil used to fry fish. we reuse the oil twice before throwing it out.

If I cook frying fish, I use it 2x only before throwing it but if I fry meat and poultry products 3x before I throw the cooking oil.

I love to cook, and whenever I fry something I always try to keep the oil for another use. I also strain it whenever I put it on it's bottle, to make it more usable again. I think this a very good practice, and it is more practical to all of us. Very little thing for others, but indeed this little things can really make a very big difference.

I don`t use oil just for one time.Why I would do this? It can be used a few more times!!

i will throw my oil if i have been frying a load of chicken or pork or fish already but if its only the first use with only a few pieces were fried i will save it for another use before throwing. sometimes with only just first frying then the oil seems burnt already on in darker color i will also throw it immediately for much safer and healthy .

I usually use my oil a few times before I throw it out. Depends upon what I cook in it.

Yes, I am guilty of this practice, too. For osme years now though, with the introduction of non stick cookwares, this has become almost a thing of the past. These cookwares allow us to fry some food with the least amount of cooking oil, just something enough to get the food done is fine. So, no wastage of cooking oil, and food is done right. If we find the used cooking oil too colored for reuse, use it to fry some potatoes and it will clear up again. This is a good thing to do after sieving the cooking oil in order to be rid of all the residue left the last time we use it.

Yep I do it. Oil can be used a few times and a few times more if you strain it! Do you think that fast food places uses their oil once? or even one day? Oh heck no .. they use it for at least a week or more!

I think it would depend on how dirty the oil has become. If it is still clean, I don't see anything wrong with reusing it. ;-) However if it is dirty already, then a fresh change is certainly necessary. ^^

No absolutely not. I throw it awayt every time. (Not that I use too much though-frying is not health conscious at all!) I would be too worried the oil would be contaminated in some way or pieces or particles of meat or vegetables could be left behind in it and cause som terrible food poisoning. Oil is fairly cheap-so I will continue to use fresh oil each time.

I never throw any cooking oil as once used for frying can be used again and again and when less amount is remaining then you can use to cook vegetables or making paranthas.

my mom does it also and so am i,when i cooked i kept the used cooking oil and save it for my next cooking i used it about 2-3 times before throwing it away and really depends on what i cooked and if i think that its can be used then i kept it.

i always throw away my cooking oil after the first use i can not take the chance that it will be ruined the next time and i will have stomach aches i also dislike tasting the other taste that i used in the first frying

Luckily in my home we don't use much oil. But when we do use, we save it for at least more two or three time. Some people say that it's not good to save it, but it's very expensive to use it only once and throw it way.

When I deep fried Rossetes, my mom let the cooking oil cool off and then she put it back in the bottle and placed it in the fridge. She said you can reuse it like 3 to 4 times.