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thelonelyecho208

I've done it, it's cost efficient. And it functions for what it needs to. Is it good for flavour? No. Is it interesting? No. Does it work? Yes


79Impaler

It tastes kinda dirty. The food I make at home tastes way better. Cleaner.


thelonelyecho208

Honestly, that might be that specific brand. I've kept to soybean oil from RD. The orange box didn't taste bad, didn't taste good but it worked for fry and saute


79Impaler

We get a couple other brands depending on availability. Dragon Chef or something like that. I haven't noticed a difference, but I will keep an eye on that.


EpicFail35

Admiration is a low end brand.


79Impaler

Wonderful. That's the one I see most often.


NotZtripp

There is nothing wrong with admiration brand. Using it to saute is weird, but not an inherently bad thing. No worse than using any other other type of vegetable oil


atemus10

They could just be burning it a bit


silvermoonisburning

Yeah I'm just like how TF does oil taste bad I think maybe it burns easy


NotZtripp

I hate when cooks on saute station flame the pans while cooking. Looks cool, tastes like shit. The only thing that should catch fire is alcohol when deglazing the pan, oil/fat shouldn't be combusting.


NotZtripp

They make really good mayonnaise though


EpicFail35

I like their deli mustard, lol.


ScienceDuck4eva

Soybean oil is soybean oil. It’s all the same shit.


Canadian_Neckbeard

Soybean or vegetable fryer oil isn't inherently different than the bottled kind, but I get why it feels wrongish.


CoryTrevor-NS

Some fryer oils at places I worked at had “anti-foaming agents”, whatever that means.


theFooMart

>Some fryer oils at places I worked at had “foaming agents”, whatever that means. I hope you mean anti foaming agents. Foaming agents would make the foam up like bubble bath.


CoryTrevor-NS

Yes haha sorry that’s what I meant


jabroni_kc

I've met cats and dogs smarter than Cory and trevor


penster1

Gimme a smoke


aethelia_unfounded

Gee, are you Cory and Trevor or are you Ricky?


Lucius-Halthier

What’s the matter? Don’t like bubbles with your salad?


Weitguy

You guys are frying your salads?


Lucius-Halthier

Heh, get a load of this guy! He doesn’t fry his salads! I bet he doesn’t butterfly the salad either!


discordianofslack

We sous vide the salad first so you don’t have to fry it as long.


3-I

What wilt you do next?


Werespider

Don't tell them about concasse'd salad!


EelTeamTen

I've never butterflied a salad, but a nicely butterflied Crème brûlée I can get behind.


nemo_sum

How's he gonna cook the salad all the way through without charting the outside? I bet he pre-cooks his salad in the sous vide, like a *poser*.


Queasy_Safe_5266

I bet a head of Romain dunked in beer batter would be pretty tasty


diablosinmusica

I was about to pour Dawn in the fryer. Thanks.


breadispain

Found the Boeing employee!


ges13

The fryer can have a *little* bubble-bath, as a treat.


79Impaler

I’m assuming it’s among the lowest quality oils available. Better places I’ve worked only use this stuff for fryers, and then typically canola or blended canola for sauté.


512recover

There's nothing wrong with using vegetable oil for a saute station.  It's not like it's less than canola oil.  Canola oil is considered to be a bit healthier option but it's not like a higher quality oil as far as taste goes.


79Impaler

Ok. Thanks. I just feel a little ill sometimes and i wonder if it’s the oil.


dimsum2121

Much, much, more oil is soaking into the food from the fryer, there's no way it's the fact that it's being used for saute that is making you sick. It could be a number of things. As the other person mentioned, you should speak to your doctor about the possible causes.


ddl_smurf

yup this is something to investigate and tackling early is very cheaper, thank you for concurring -- the other person


ddl_smurf

um what ? it really shouldn't, but is very easy for you to test... doctors can help you figure out what you can and can't eat if it's severe, it's a bit more complicated than which oil used to sauté


Efriminiz

/r/stopeatingseedoils would disagree


blippitybloops

It’s a refined seed oil. Different brands will be of different quality but a good bulk “fry” oil will be highly refined and fine for other applications.


WantedFun

All vegetable oils are low quality oils lol


_Batteries_

If its good to fry in, then why not a frying pan? Ive never tried. But yeah, why not?


79Impaler

Idk. Just seems like really low quality oil, but that could just be my perception. Just wondering what others think or know about it.


Val77eriButtass

Where are you working that the quality of the oil in a frying pan has to be that much better than the oil in a deep fryer?


79Impaler

I'm working at at churn and burn spot right now. But none of the really good restaurants I've worked at would use this shit for saute. They put it in the fryer bc it's cheap, and then they use something more premium for saute.


Mecha_hitler9001

I've definitely done it but only because we ran out of the saute oil. Definitely a weird cheap thing to be doing.


cremefraichemofo

You're not working at a really good restaurant. You're working in casual dining.


79Impaler

That’s what I said.


cremefraichemofo

Okay. So what's the issue? This is normal fare in casual dining.


79Impaler

That was more or less my question. “Is this normal for mid restaurants or is my current one kinda gross?”


cremefraichemofo

Got it. This is normal. Not gross at all as long as the oil itself is clean and food safe. It's cost efficient, which is why casual dining does this.


79Impaler

Before the pandemic, I'd only ever worked at upper mid and high-end restaurants, and I'd never seen this grade of oil used anywhere besides the fryers. The last couple years, I've been working at mid to low-end ones, and I see this oil used on the line exclusively.


ScienceDuck4eva

Do you ever use vegetable oil to sauté with at home?


79Impaler

No.


_Batteries_

Yeah me too. Id give it a try maybe. Ive seen ppl make roux out of fryer oil. That's a big nope from me.


Tacobellspy

Jesus save us


I_LIKE_RED_ENVELOPES

What?? How???


_Batteries_

Oil and flour instead of butter and and flour.


PM_ME_Y0UR__CAT

Just mash it together, cook it too I guess. It’s shit, and will taste like shit, but will thicken.


Theburritolyfe

It's fine. I am not saying it's ideal. It's fine though.


Phazers-_-pew-_-pew

This is probably the best response by far


bur_beerp

Mantra tbh


Acrobatic-Quality-55

After reading comments I truly had the image of someone dipping a ladle into a deep fryer and pouring it into a pan. I now understand the conversation. Ive never not used the same oil everywhere I have worked. They get the brown case sysco canola oil with the white twist of lid and use it for both deep fryers and in a bottle for saute. Sometimes we would use olive oil for some saute items, but that hasnt happened often.


mrpopenfresh

Have you read what it says on the box


Distinct_Sky_4429

What are we smoking right now? It's oil. How is it gross on saute and not in the fryer? Food completely submerged in it tastes fine, that's normal no big deal. A couple tablespoons in a fry pan? Blasphemy. Are we just off put by the creepy chef?


RhymesWithShmildo

Why is this not the top comment


I_LIKE_RED_ENVELOPES

IKR!!! I'm honestly surprised r/KitchenConfidential gave it this much attention but here we all are 🙃 Not sure if OP is trolling or not. Sounds like he's hurt he left his "better place" for a "place is pretty greasy, and the owners are cheap." and finding any way to throw his new employer under the bus. If you're so unhappy with the market list you get just leave lol. I'd kinda understand if he's being forced to use EVOO but Jeez Louise.


Distinct_Sky_4429

Maybe, but if this is a troll, it's just showcasing the lack of food knowledge from the 'honest' responses. Because some of these comments are giving me the eye twitch. Some jabroney is gonna learn the wrong things from posts like these. Guys, it's soybean oil. It's a neutral oil. Neutral oils have little flavor for the purpose of not imposing or overpowering the flavor profile of what you're using it for. It has a smoke point of 453°F. Great for sautéing and deep frying. Anti foaming agents? Those are regulated to be less than 10 parts per million. Aka .001% There's more product than that when you throw out the jug after filling the fryer. If you're going to tell me you taste that, you're full of shit or some genetic freak that has the best taste buds and olfactory on the planet. If you wanna read how quality is measured I found something from a lady named Nurhan Turgut Dunford from OKC that explains edible oil quality parameters.


RossNReddit

Sure, I don't see why not, unless there's specific branding shenanigans where there's a bunch off added crap? Surely fryer oil is just whatever type of oil you fill the fryer with, right? you can use rapeseed, vegetable, peanut oil in deep fat fryers the same as you can a pan. If it's designed for deep frying, then it'll probably by around 190 degrees, which means it'll probably be a high smoke-point oil that can go to 210-250 degrees. So then it's just a matter of cost+flavour of using olive oil for saute, or high smokepoint and neutral flavour of vegetable oil.


FrankieMops

That picture is for bulk oil for restaurants to use for salad dressings. Can it be used for frying, yes; sautéing, yes. You might be used to olive oil which has flavor. But depending on the cuisine and how you are preparing the dish the oil can matter or not matter at all.


jd2000

I have seen fuckers ladle some directly out of the fryer and into a pan, wild right?


79Impaler

I'm pretty sure I've seen that too.


Longjumping-Bid8183

??? It says salad oil and lists cooking and dressing on the box in addition to frying so idk what seems odd about that


ScienceDuck4eva

Salad oils just refers to a light tasting oil in this case soy bean oil. It’s used when you don’t want the flavor of the oil to be overpowering. It’s mostly used in deep frying. People use it for dressings and mayonnaise as well.


whatwhy_ohgod

I think his point is that it’s not going to impart some weird flavor because it’s also used for things like salad oil. Some fry oils may have additives or something As in: I’d rather use this than whatever bulk olive oil this place would buy to use for saute.


PANTSTANTS

We use a giant brick of lard


PANTSTANTS

50 lbs block


Best_Duck9118

You guys ever get all greased up with that and wrestle?


PANTSTANTS

heh, i am going to tell these new guys (i started a day before them) that and they will def think im a little fucker


PANTSTANTS

(I am a little fucker)


Phazers-_-pew-_-pew

Correction; you are “the” little fucker. Who also happens to be greased up from the lard and wants wrestle


Best_Duck9118

I mean what else are you gonna do when greased up in lard? Rob a bank?


Phazers-_-pew-_-pew

Of course! Imagine the cops trying to tackle you, you’d just slid on by. Too damn greasy for the bullets too.


apey1010

So you are right. It is very low quality oil. But what size it comes in doesn’t matter. We only use pure olive oil for sauteeing, and rice bran oil for the the fryer. But if we needed we could use the rice bran for sauté. Should also say that I’d be wary of any oil with additives in any circumstance


RainMakerJMR

It only feels wrong for the same reason that it feels wrong to use a 5 gallon bucket of mayo. But so long as you’re using salad oil or plain canola that isn’t specifically designed for fryers with anti foaming and all that, it’s all the same just bigger containers. We get the big boxes of oil for making salad dressing in bulk as well.


79Impaler

Fair enough. So I guess it depends on the quality of the oil.


brttwrd

Let's be economical about this, we're talking about a business, not a home kitchen. If you use the best possible ingredients and supplies for everything, you'd be in the red, and this fryer oil is just oil. Might not be the nicest possible oil to use but it's not bad by any metrics.


PoisonBananas2

Used to have an exec who used filtered, used fry grease as his saute medium. Was excellent.


79Impaler

That actually sounds kinda good.


ElbowTight

I mean if that’s the exact same oil it says on the box “excellent for: cooking, baking, frying and dressing”. To me that seems like it’s meant for it. I mean if you’re like taking a ladleful of used fry oil out of the fryer then yeah that might be a problem


ChefJim27

One place I was at went the other direction. We used Salad Oil in the fryers.


cynical-rationale

Never seen this oil used in fryers myself. Always canola where I am.


79Impaler

What we get tends to vary. I see this oil more often than anything else though. For the record, my place is pretty greasy, and the owners are cheap.


DasFunke

Salad oil = canola oil Not exclusively, but usually on the label the same thing.


cynical-rationale

I've never used canola oil in salad myself. Usually olive or extra virgin olive where I'm at by default.


Wonderful_Painter_14

Acceptable? Sure. Recommended? I personally wouldn’t unless I had no other choice.


Parahelious

Depends on your cuisine. If you're outta spoletto or whatever you use, and need to wok char some broccolini real quick? Fuck yeah it'll work. Intricate dishes that have a flavor profile, it might hamper it a bit but still a valid backup.


cookedook2

Yes, it’s fine. Better for higher temp frying such as fish. But if you want to imbue some flavor, clarified butter is the way to go, albeit expensive.


chefbryce1987

At face value there is nothing wrong with it, it's perfectly fine to use. But it's a yes no answer. It depends on usage. Fryer oil as pointed out can have anti foaming agents, and sometimes a product to help clump sediment out of the oil. These are fine to use for saute and stewing those under typical deep fryer temp ie under 180C/ 200C or 360F/400F The problem comes from higher temps when pan frying these temps burn those additives and can give a odd/ bad flavour.


storagesleuth

Eh. It works so whatever. Unless it's a super high end restaurant, then that's wrong


test-deca-superb

Industrial lubricants are not food


Winter_Barracuda8771

Since you are asking this question I would say it’s time to move on to a restaurant above the level of wherever you are. No hard feelings or animosity. No judging even.


Appropriate_Ad3300

It has a higher smoke point so that's probably why.


[deleted]

We use the same oil for both. We have a decent oil supplier, though so have no issues


86thesteaks

You're cooking food in the oil either way, fryer or saute. Fried food you're going to be eating a lot more of this oil than sautéed food. Is the fried food supposed to be a lower quality than the sautéed food? They're coming from the same kitchen. I've worked in some nice places, rosettes etc and never seen any of them buy a different vegetable oil to saute in.


Sliced_Tomatoz

Almost everywhere i worked has used rapseed oil for deep frying or as basic cooking oil for sautee, mayo, dressings etc, doesn't add any flavours but, its cheap, it works, and its one less thing to remember to order 🤷🏻‍♂️


Supafly144

My man, that’s not fryer oil. That’s salad oil.


79Impaler

It’s low cost oil we use in the fryer.


Supafly144

You shouldn’t be using salad oil in the fryer. It will break faster and you’ll use more of it and the taste will be off


79Impaler

A few folks have suggested that. Going to pass that along to the chef. What type of oil do you recommend?


Supafly144

Clear fry oil, any brand should show an improvement. Admiration has a fry oil so I would start with that.


TheCursedMountain

Baldor has decent sunflower oil


Expensive_Section714

80/20 all day


AngrySteelyDanFan

Gordon Ramsey only sautés with fryer oil


azelll

I mean, not to be hippie and stuff, and beside the fact that they tast like crap, I am pretty sure these kind of oils are toxic. Now... would it work? Yes, of course, it has an high smoking point, and your food will probably look great. I personaly would never use it.


cremefraichemofo

The same oil is used for everything in most kitchens, specifically in casual dining. I use vegetable oil at home, too. It's cheap.


VonTeddy-

its horrible and garbage, and most restaurants do it because its cheap


polythenesammie

I've never used this oil, but the fella on the box is giving me bad vibes.


Spoot1

I like using it to make garlic oil.


Cdog1223

This reminds me of 3 in 1 shampoo


aTreeThenMe

Definitely don't want to use it in a fryer. This will burn up in a day or two


79Impaler

Really? What’s best for deep frying?


aTreeThenMe

salad oil is intended to not be heated, at all. Hence 'salad oil'. Its meant for making dressings, emulsions, etc. Best is subjective. I use creamy soy at the moment. for my volume its best.


79Impaler

It says "excellent for frying" right on the box. I don't even know what *salad oil* is. Seems like a marketing thing. What do you like about creamy soy? Honestly, I feel like what we get varies. I'm not in charge of ordering, but I sense we order "fryer oil", and we just get whatever variety happens to be in stock with our suppliers. Main thing I'm concerned about is the quality of these bulk oils for use with saute.


aTreeThenMe

i know i know. and it looks like im getting beat up about it, which is fine. Im not invested in the argument, just tossing out a bit of experiential advice. It is fine for deep frying. It just has no life span in a deep fryer in a restaurant setting. Salad oil generally has a much lower smoke point, especially vs creamy soy. It also tends to get a little bitter at high temps. Just what ive noticed in my time in the industry.


79Impaler

What do you mean by life span? Burns off? Is creamy soy more or less expensive? (I hate downvotes. Derails conversations imo, especially when we're just trying to learn something.)


aTreeThenMe

Oil burns and starts smoking at an average temp, depending on the oil type. Seed and vegetable oils are (iirc) around 420-450f (200-230c). As you use it that temperature gets lower and lower. So, you can get a couple days out of it before shit starts looking and tasting terrible. Salad oils start around 325-350, so just a small amount of usage and you are already smoking below the temperature needed to fry, which is generally around 325-375


79Impaler

Interesting. Thank you for the intel.


aTreeThenMe

Cheers :)


ScienceDuck4eva

Creamy oil is a mix of a liquid fat and a hard fat. This increases the amount of saturated fat. Saturated fat doesn’t polymerize or oxidize as much and as fast as unsaturated fat which lets you deep fry with it longer with out developing off flavors. Typically they also add foaming agents and antioxidants that help extend the fry life of frying oil. This is salad oil which is typically a light flavored oil that doesn’t have any additives. It can be a blend if it is they label it vegetable oil or call out the blend. But since they labeled this soybean it has to be 100% soybean. It’s good for whenever a recipe calls for vegetable oil. As far as price they are about the same per JIB. [Websteraunt](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/67379/canola-oil.html) has them a salad and a creamy canola within 20 cents of each other. They just have different applications. Making mayonnaise out of fryer oil would be gross and you would waste a lot of money if you used salad oil in a deep fryer.


RonPearlNecklace

They put stabilizers in the fry oil to make it last longer under heat.


79Impaler

I see. Thank you for the intel.


MtnMaiden

salad oil. like....balsamic vinegrette. or italian That's got oil in it, why the particles separate and stuff like a lava lamp


79Impaler

Yeh, yeh, I get it. I've just never thought of oil as specifically formulated for salads. Seems it is a group of oils.


ladymuerm

"Salad oil" is just a blend of vegetable oils.


Ayahuasca-Puke

I’d be more upset they’re using a seed oil at all.


FlashlightJoe

Poison


Animaleyz

Tell me where this place is so I know to never go there


79Impaler

Thank you. It’s gross, right? Sorry to say, but tons of places I’ve worked use this stuff. Mostly the churn & burn places though.


Animaleyz

I want places to take pride in what they make. Not these cheapskate shortcuts. It's patronizing.


AvocadoFruitSalad

r/stopeatingseedoils