Veggie Week

This week has been Veggie Week. We use a veggie powered diesel Suburban (6.2L) with a trailer full of 55 gallon drums to go collecting used fryer oil. At some restaurants we get it by the 4.3 gallon jug, at others we swap an empty 55 gallon drum for the full one or pump them out, but at these cold temperatures, more than likely we have to scoop with a 5 gallon pail. It's a dirty job, but it needs doing. Then it's back to the shop where the grease and oil get dumped into a 300 gallon wood fired boiler. The oil is brought up to 250F using scrap slabwood from the sawmill, and then settled overnight. The next morning the still hot oil (100F or more) is pumped through 5 micron filters into 500 gallon propane tanks and 55 gallon drums for storage until needed for the Suburbans or our VeggieGen.