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Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 11:37 am Post subject: Filtering foodstuffs
I'm wondering what to use to filter the oil that I'll be making. Instinctively I don't think the type of filters I use for waste oil are suitable, but logically, I cannot think how they are fundamentally different from cheese cloths and suchlike.

Nick

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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 1:08 pm Post subject:
Filtering is not just a physical barrier process. Some are hydrophobic, some are hydrophilic.

nats

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Location: Swindon but not a Swindonian

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 8:19 pm Post subject:
My step mum used to use coffee filter papers for filtering oil she had used for frying in to use again. Any help?

mousjoos

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 7:17 am Post subject:
I remember cheese cloths as having buttons & collars A difficult period during my teenage years Perhaps no help...just saying

Hairyloon

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 8:35 am Post subject:

nats wrote:

My step mum used to use coffee filter papers for filtering oil she had used for frying in to use again. Any help?

It's a thought. Where can I get really big filter papers from?

Nick

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 8:37 am Post subject:
Define really big.

nats

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 9:29 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

nats wrote:

My step mum used to use coffee filter papers for filtering oil she had used for frying in to use again. Any help?

It's a thought. Where can I get really big filter papers from?

The place where the factory that cut them in to circles get them from?!

Hairyloon

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 10:02 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Define really big.

Ten times bigger than a normal coffee filter?
4' wide?

I think the definition is fairly flexible, but it gives the order of magnitude: I don't need one a mile wide.

sean
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 11:13 am Post subject:
Chip shop filtration suppliers. The ones that work uses are about 18" diameter but they come in different sizes.

Pilsbury

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 12:17 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Chip shop filtration suppliers. The ones that work uses are about 18" diameter but they come in different sizes.

yep i have them at work, made by prep , fit really well in a big chinois (conical strainer) and hook onto a 25liter pan for me to drain my fryers into.

Nick

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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 13 3:12 pm Post subject:
Have a google for Camlab filter papers. We have them in that order of size. Let me know an ill grab prices. Eg https://www.camlab.co.uk/general-purpose-filter-papers-grade-601-no-1-equivalent-p18461.aspx Depends how much filtering (size of particle) you want to do.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 14 10:00 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Have a google for Camlab filter papers. We have them in that order of size. Let me know an ill grab prices.

Eg https://www.camlab.co.uk/general-purpose-filter-papers-grade-601-no-1-equivalent-p18461.aspx

Depends how much filtering (size of particle) you want to do.

Everything on that page seems to be for particulates 5-13 µm... I have had a bit of a rummage around that site, and I've not yet found anything more suitable.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Nick

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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 14 10:08 pm Post subject:
I doubt you'll get filter paper that fine. Let me have a hunt. Oil, sub micron, large volume?

Nick

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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 14 10:11 pm Post subject:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18-1-MICRON-FILTER-USED-COOKING-OIL-VEG-OIL-BIO-DIESEL-VEGETABLE-OIL-/171225060440

Hairyloon

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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 14 10:42 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18-1-MICRON-FILTER-USED-COOKING-OIL-VEG-OIL-BIO-DIESEL-VEGETABLE-OIL-/171225060440

Yep. That's the one I'm using.

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