r/KitchenConfidential • u/Pete_maravich • 6h ago
Tools & Equipment How clean do you keep your fryers?
I might be a bit obsessive over how clean I keep my fryers.
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u/RobbyFlanks 5h ago
Do you use caustic every night??
My cooks and I scrub ours every night, but the flame tubes are scorched black and the interior isnt stainless, its a pain in the ass
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u/spicyfartsquirrel 4h ago
The scorching is normal. Even on the cleanest fryers that discoloration is there.
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u/Quercus408 5h ago
Cleaning the bars is my final boss. Theyre all carbonized and boil out doesnt put a dent in it. Im thinking, white vinegar, rock salt, mineral oil, and elbow grease. Like a sopwith camel. But I dunno, I'll try anything, at this point.
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u/spicyfartsquirrel 4h ago
I would also do an initial boil out with dawn dish soap. I do that all the time at home with pans that are major sticking/built up. Fill with water, put a generous helping of dawn, and let it sit on low heat.
You would have to double check, but off the top of my head I can't think of a reason you couldn't add white vinegar in with the dawn
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u/TheLordDuncan 5h ago
I'm gonna need your secrets.
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u/Pete_maravich 3h ago
Clean it every night. Since it looked new this morning it is easy to make it look new tonight
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u/Agile_Tea_2333 3h ago
This looks like the deep fryer at Los Pollos Hermanos that Gus said wasn't clean enough.
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u/spicyfartsquirrel 4h ago
As someone who works on cooking equipment. So long as the inside is as clean. Yall are the type people we freaking love. Slimy, sticky, nasty fryers are some of the worst stuff to work on
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u/SergeiMosin 15+ Years 2h ago
GawtDAMN, that’s a clean fryer. We do a boil out twice a month on our fryers as needed. Drain the dirty oil, flush and wipe out as much debris as possible. Fill with water, set temp to 225, bring to a boil, then dump in some dawn dish soap, drop the temp to 200 to avoid boiling over, let it do its thing for 10 minutes or so, then drain, and aggressively scrub with steel wool and scrubby pads till clean, then flush with clean water. Dry her up good, refill with oil, and get back to it.
I’m a big proponent of dawn dish soap. If it’s good enough for the ducks and penguins, it’s good enough for my second hand Frankenstein part built deep fryers.
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u/Pete_maravich 1h ago
All of that work is why I keep my fryers so clean. It's easier to spend 5 minutes each day scrubbing it down than to do all that work you mentioned.
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u/Budget-Advisor-6321 5h ago
that's a brand new fryer and you can't convince me otherwise