Oils?

[D.Summers]

All oils used as a foodstuff can, and does, turn rancid. A little smell test will quickly out the offending oil!!

 

[snakebit]

How can oil go bad? We have a hard time keeping a spare jug for kitchen use.

I keep a separate jug just for fish and filter it back in the jug. Hasn't gone bad yet.

 

[Oldbear63]

I had a bright idea to mix my rancid oils with charcoal starter fluid and just burn it off in my barbeque on BBQ days.

Bad idea.

The smoke and smell isn't worth the effort. Perhaps during a bonfire or outdoor fire pit, but I suspect that the smoke would make the fire uncomfortable enough to nix the idea.

 

[James Dietz]

This sounds odd but I put cooking oil both old and reclaimed after a good straining in my 40-year-old diesel Mercedes. Mixes just fine with diesel from the pump and no issues. I have read that the diesel engine was developed by the Germans to run on vegetable oil as they had no natural oil supplies. When I lived in California I joined "BUG". The Biodiesel Users Group. We had a deal where a member had a straining facility and a couple of trucks. If you volunteered to help pick up the old cooking oil at fast food places you could buy burnable fuel for 25 cents a gallon. If you didn't volunteer it would cost you $1 a gallon. Cheap fuel! Great for the environment as well! (Which is what I thought California was all about.) The state of California got wind of this and realized it was an underground program and they were not getting any tax revenue. So, they declared it a hazardous substance and we got shut down. Now biofuels is a big industry. Kind of stinks. But anyway, burn it in a diesel engine!

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

Burning vegetable oils in diesel engines will work only with an old prechamber diesel, but not with a modern direct injektion diesel.

Modern direct injection diesel engines can only be operated with vegetable oil if they have been converted to a 2-tank system.

It needs pure diesel fuel to start the engine and then switch to vegetable oil when the engine is warm. Before turning off the engine, the system must then be flushed again with diesel for a few minutes.

 

[sturmkatze]

My ***** wife won’t drink water with a past date. As the guy said in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade “He chose poorly.”

 

[azmntman]

You know you love her.

 

[longcruise]

Doesn't Willy Nelson sell reclaimed veg oil for diesel fuel at his truck stop.

 

[BlazingIron]

I got a lot of comments but never did get an answer, can various oils be mixed?

Yes different cooking oils can be mixed. It will alter each oils smoke point and together. It will however alter the smoke points and taste/smell of the individual oils. If it is all oil of the same type (corn, olive, peanut) then that is not even an issue.
If tour oil doesn’t smell or taste bad, I’d use it mixed or unmixed.

 

[Master Blaster]

The cooking oils will eventually become unpalatable after enough time has elapsed. This is greatly accelerated by storing at higher temps, like in the garage or motor home. Your nose will tell the tale.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

I sometimes use old vegetable oil for caring garden tools. It is o.k. for the wooden parts and will also stop rust for a while when storing the tools for the winter.

 

[Colonial Boy]

I know some people who stick rigidly to use by dates, when they have a cup of tea with us I don’t tell them that the milk has passed its ub date by up to a week.
Milk around here keeps well past the use by if kept refrigerated.

 

[Colonial Boy]

I just consolidated more than a dozen job site first aid kits into 3 fully stocked units. These expiration dates are misleading, everything from all the leftover kits were still in perfect working order. I opened quite a few band aids to check them as they are most frequently used. I think they got stickier with age. Of coarse they want us to throw our stuff away and re supply! it’s marketing.

I remember being issued with WW1 Field Dressings in 1953/54, today’s worriers would have a fit.

 

[Grenadier1758]

During basic training in 1970, the rations issued during the overnight exercises were C-Rations from the 1950's. Obviously, I survived. I still carry the P-38 can opener.

 

[BuffaloSoldier]

Yup, had the same experience, Grenadier, went into Army in 1975, had C-rations issued through 1979. We got an issue of old Nam LRP dehydrated rations, thought we had died and gone to heaven with them!!

 

[johnraleksa]

When I was working part-time for the Carmel parks I would drive by a farm that sold eggs. Many times I had a co-worker with me, a younger woman in her late 30's. I would stop and get 2 dozen eggs then put them in the back seat for the rest of the day she thought I was crazy for not putting them a cooler of some kind. She also said she would only buy eggs from a supermarket, they were more safe to eat. I have eaten can food that was close to a year out date many times, more than one time over a year out of date

 

[Grenadier1758]

As long as those eggs weren't washed or refrigerated, they would be fine. Eggs sold in other countries than the USA are unwashed and not refrigerated.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Unwashed and unrefrigerated eggs can last several weeks and longer without refrigeration. Grocery store eggs need to be refrigerated because they have been washed and refrigerated. Either way they won’t likely spoil in a day or two.

 

[Colonial Boy]

Just thought that we’d run out of milk for breakfast but the day was saved by a bottle that the wife had put aside for cake making.
Dated to use by 12 August so it’s 12 days overdue. Made a loveriy cup of tea.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Canola oils

Is what Ive used for making black powder cartridge loads. Makes a good lube, along with Bee's wax and lard.

I'd not mixem