Oil Filter Systems

Commercial oil filter systems come with a myriad of benefits, helping to improve food quality, safety and save you money in long run. When you run your cooking oil through a filter, it helps to remove debris from the food you’re cooking, reducing flavour transfer and lessening the chances of getting sediment in your oil. By keeping your oil in better condition and removing any food crumbs, it can also help reduce the chances of grease fires, keeping your kitchen cleaner and safer.

Not only does this deliver better flavour, it also helps to extend the number of times you can use your oil before it needs to be replaced. This helps save your restaurant time and money, limiting the amount of manual filtration you need to do while also making for a more efficient oil filtration process. 

An oil filter system can be used while your deep fryer is in use, making for a more efficient cleaning and maintenance process, removing the need to filter it after it’s cooled. It draws the hot oil up into an internal system, removing debris like crumbs and pieces of food that have broken off during the frying process. After the oil has passed through the filter, it’s then passed back into the main drum to continue cooking.

By continuously removing any food that may later contaminate the oil, it offers greater levels of filtration than if you only removed residue after you were done cooking. In turn, this means the deep fryer can do a better job and also reduces the residue that can build up on your fryer. Equally, it’ll be easier to clean and maintain when you’re doing a boil out with cleaning products, extending the lifespan of your fryer while also saving labour hours. 

You can get two forms of oil filtration systems, one is manual and other is automatic. Manual operation, as the name suggests, requires a member of staff to pump the oil through the filter. Automatic filters will do it for you but require a power source to operate. 

You’ll need to do some regular maintenance on your oil filter to ensure it operates efficiently but also so you can extend its lifespan. Each brand and model will have slightly different care instructions and we recommend checking them carefully for the oil filter system you have for the best care practices.

As a general rule, you’ll want to change the filter paper itself on a regular basis. Depending on the size of your deep fryer, what you’re cooking and how much you’re using it, you may need to put in a fresh filter more regularly though most restaurants find that changing it every five to eight uses will be enough. If you notice the oil is starting to degrade, you’ll also want to switch to a new filter to prevent cross contamination when you put in fresh oil. 

Yes, absolutely. You’ll notice a major difference especially when using an automatic oil filter as you won’t need to process it at the end of the shift, nor do you need to have a staff member manually pumping the oil through the filter. Equally, it’ll make your oil last for longer, reducing the overall frequency with which you need to switch your frying oil out and this also results in fewer deep cleaning sessions required to maintain your deep fryer. 

Along with helping to extend the amount of uses you can get from your batch of oil, they also help with maintaining the quality of your food. Flavours can transfer over time through the oil. By removing food particulates with ongoing filtration, you’ll get better results and happier customers.

Filtration also helps with reducing the frequency of deep cleaning your fryer by removing some of the food crumbs and debris that can get stuck on the stainless steel drum you’re cooking food in. Equally, dirty oil can spit more, so by keeping your oil clean with a filter, you’ll also help to reduce the chances of grease fires, especially when combined with an exhaust canopy.