Has commercial cooking oil changed?

[kgray96057]

4. Fried Hasn't Tasted Right For Years

When I started cooking, we got these huge blocks of beef tallow. Throw then in the fryers, melt them and then go to full heat. IU believe that the tallow was mixed with a little shortening, but not by much. Enough to extend the heat range.

Once the industry moved to shortening- and pure vegetable oils- the fried food always tasted off, me.

But for those who've never tasted food cooked in that... I think the biggest problem now is that oil is expensive enough to be recycled a few too many times. Drain the dryer, Strain the burned bits out of the oil, throw it back in. You can filter the hell out of it, make it look practically new. Still adds an off taste.