mind boggler

[jabink89]

i was wondering if anyone knows how much fryer oil is off the shelf, as in the price a restaurant would pay for it. im guessing it is too expensive or everyone would be buying it or maybee it isnt possible to use like that. cen someone fill me in please.

im going to check a restaurant in town tomorrow but figured i would ask.


thanks
JOSH

[yaric008]

at costco it's around 5 dollars a gallon for the cheapest stuff.

[vegistroker73L]

Originally Posted by jabink89

i was wondering if anyone knows how much fryer oil is off the shelf, as in the price a restaurant would pay for it. im guessing it is too expensive or everyone would be buying it or maybee it isnt possible to use like that. cen someone fill me in please.

I talked with one of my restaurants about this. They gave me the price list for new oils from Sysco, a large restaurant/institutional supplier here in the Northeast and even the cheapest oils worked about to around $5.00 per gallon. This was the bottom rung hydrogenated stuff that the chef told me he would never use. Two years ago it was relatively economical to buy new oil but the hike in fuel/food prices has made it cost prohibitive. I'm looking into getting a 300 gallon home heating oil tank to put in my garage if I can locate a renderer who will sell me yellow grease for less than the price of diesel. Even that is getting tough with the price being so high however.

[yaric008]

Originally Posted by vegistroker73L

I talked with one of my restaurants about this. They gave me the price list for new oils from Sysco, a large restaurant/institutional supplier here in the Northeast and even the cheapest oils worked about to around $5.00 per gallon. This was the bottom rung hydrogenated stuff that the chef told me he would never use. Two years ago it was relatively economical to buy new oil but the hike in fuel/food prices has made it cost prohibitive. I'm looking into getting a 300 gallon home heating oil tank to put in my garage if I can locate a renderer who will sell me yellow grease for less than the price of diesel. Even that is getting tough with the price being so high however.

Well if new oil is about the same price as diesel, you should be able to find used oil for less than diesel. We're going to sell waste oil for about half the price of diesel.

[vegistroker73L]

Originally Posted by yaric008

Well if new oil is about the same price as diesel, you should be able to find used oil for less than diesel. We're going to sell waste oil for about half the price of diesel.

The price of yellow grease (what rendering companies call processed waste oil) works out to about $3.07 a gallon. Not exactly cheap, but definitely better than $4.70 a gallon which is what I'm paying here in New Jersey. However, free is always best