Palm

[Greenchef]

Hi quick question regarding palm oil, a chef mate of mine has donated me 80 Lts of the stuff. Have had a quiet night at work tonight so was thinking I'd change the fryer oil. If I were to mix in the palm to get it liquid to filter out the rubbish, how long do you wreckon it would stay liquid for?

Don't really want to filter is into cubies and then have to cut them up to get the oil out again.

Cheers.

[K.H]

I think palm solidifies between 20-30 C so however long it takes to go back down to those temps,but mixing in liquid oil from the fryer in a reasonable % should keep it liquid if its kept a reasonable temp

[Greenchef]

Thought that was the case never come across or cooked with it myself. Probably add a tube of palm each week to the oil change until its gone. That would make a ratio of 60/40 soya to palm, guess that should be ok for summer bio production?

[K.H]

Ive not used palm myself but im sure that turning it into bio lowers the gel point enough that you can use it throughout the summer,any palm users on here?

[Tony]

I would like to, given that liquid oils are getting harder to get hold of, and not many people want palm.

[Julian]

I get a bit of Frymax from my bakery collection, seems it's good for doughnuts.  I'm assuming that has a high palm content as it's usually semi-solid.  I mix it with liquid oil in my melting and dewatering tank (the one that's not a gas bottle), it just makes the oil a little more viscous, I can still pump it with the Mono in quite cold weather and it makes very good Bio.

I haven't yet tried it mid winter as collections haven't worked out that way.

[Stumpy]

I can get loads of palm based oil up to 90lt a week from a fried chicken place.
The problem is Im going to need to blend, and when the summer ends (pmsl  ) use some Coldflow 405.

The best way I can think of to heat it back to liquid if I cant use it straight away is to use a Turk Burner and a steel SVO tin.

[Keef]

As it's summer, a mate of mine has just done a batch of bio using some of my 100% solid palm.

The bio starts to solidify at about 12 degrees so a couple of litres sit in a coke bottle outside to see how it looks in the morrnings.
In the last week we've had 2 mornings where it's set solid and several mornings with an inch or two of HMPEs in the bottom.

What's going on with the weather, it's nearly July!!