"frying oil" news and stories

Chances are you're not deep-frying very often, but when you do, can the oil be reused?

Up until now, stories have popped up pretty frequently about individuals using fast food french fries oil to fuel diesel-powered cars or gasoline-powered cars fitted with converters. However, a company in Long Island, NY is taking it one step further by opening an entire plant that will do this. North American Bio Fuels of Bohemia has partnered with a local liquid waste hauler and will convert frying oil and other restaurant grease into fuel.

The converted restaurant grease can also be used to heat homes.

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We all know that we want to be nice and polite to the person who is serving your food in a restaurant, because you never know what he or she will do to your food behind closed doors to get back at you. I shudder at the thought. However, in Philadelphia, you might want to be nice to the fast-food worker behind the counter, or else you might walk away with a 3rd degree hot oil burn. Yikes.

A customer in the fast food chain Checkers in Philadelphia said her "skin was cooking" when a 17-year-old employee threw hot oil on her. The employee had first dumped soda on the customer, and while the customer complained to the manager, the employee returned with a cup of hot oil and threw it on her through the pick-up window.

The employee has been fired and charged with aggravated and simple assault and reckless endangerment.