Is old cooking oil worth keeping?

[iowabuckeye]

Just changed the oil in my deep fryer. Is the old oil worth keeping and squirting around sets as a coon attractact?

[robertw]

If you used ot to cook fish it is worth more than most commercial fish oils.

Dry cat food and with a coating of fish fry oil makes an excellent coon bait for any dog proof trap.

[possum63]

I have wondered the same thing. I have oil from a bar availabvle to me quite often. Never took it, figured it would attract more skunks and possums than it would be worth.
The oil I can get cooks everything from fish to cheeseball and french fries. Probably more of the later

[northwestern]

I have a friend of mine save all his used cooking oil from his fish fry each year. I add a little shellfish oil and peppermint oil to a gallon of used oil. It is an inexpensive trailing lure for coon and has worked well for me.

[tuckaddi]

I use all my used oil on the coon line.I buy 1 oz bottles of cherry,honey,persimmon,blk berry and many others that i add alittle to about 32 oz oil.Put it in a smaller bottle and put over dog food in your dp. It will also keep the rain from swelling up your dog food, the oil sheds the water. Thanks

[hawkeye1486]

:-XHave ever read a post that wa so simple u were like, why didnt i ever think of that, this was it, great idea!! Thanks

[possum63]

Do you need to do anything to the oil to keep it from going rancid? Or will it keep on its own? How well does ot work in the cold? It turns solid in my garage. Does antifreeze and oil mix?

[iowabuckeye]

Glad I held on to it then!
To keep it from going rancid, you can keep it in a cool/dark place or in a fridge. I plan on just keeping this in the basement.

I did a quick web search and got the following for solidification points. Animal based oils would solidify at higher temps. I just put mine in the fridge for a quick experiment.... May just have to use it on the warmer days.

corn oil - 20 deg. C
sunflower oil - 17 deg. C
olive oil - 6 deg. C
sesame oil - 6 deg. C
peanut oil 3 deg. C
palm oil 24.1 deg. C
coconut oil 25.1 deg. C

[robmelton]

Ok what's the conversion formula again. I hate celcius.

[robmelton]

Here it is: F=9/5(C+32

[tuckaddi]

I keep it in the fridge until fall and mix my ingreds and leave out until i use it. Its a cheap way of seeing what you can make. I have a real good recipe that took 3 years to fine tune. Its a berry smelling and very loud, works good for me.

[robertw]

Most of us use corn oil or peanut oil when we fry fish.

Fish fry oil takes on the rendered oil from the fats in the fish when cooking and in most instances smells more fishy than the commercial fish oils available commercially to trappers.

Spiking fish fry oil with small amount of shellfish oil adds all of the additional odor needed.

[riverbandit]

Been using fish fry oil as a trailing scent for 4 seasons now. Like Robert said, its better IMO than any of the fish oils on the market as a coon attractant. I spike it with Almond extract or Persimmon oil and liquid smoke. I freeze the oil in 5 gal jugs.