Fryer oil security

Hey all,
I was wondering for those who have fryers on board their food truck and plan to move around town, how do you keep your oil from sloshing around in transit?
I am not installing a fryer in the first wave of my build, but am considering it at a later date. I was curious how these trucks that are actually mobile secure their oil so it doesn't get dangerous and messy in the rig.

this is a great question and one on my list of things to work through. stop and go in town and muliple stops during a work day are issues. fryers are easily drained down but that incredibly hot grease into a 'plastic' 5 gallon bucket isnt kewl, eh? also im thinking a piece of sheet metal thats bent to hang over the sides and drop just to the oil level with a heavy duty rubber seal thats food grade like a cooler door seal may work. a fairly simple job for any sheet metal fab shop or incase your handy with a welder and shear and brake, a DIY project.
 
my bigger concern is dealing with grease laden air and what sticks to every square inch of the kitchen area. My last 2 sit down rests advertised no fried foods, period. a slogan was, 'no fast food, no half fast food' (you have to say it quickly,...) now im going to the dark side....

I could post some pics of how my fryer is covered. It's just a lid that slides into place. It doesn't seal but any leakage would be minimal. The newer designs have a lid with a hinge and lowers deep into the basin.

Vic Cardenas


I could post some pics of how my fryer is covered. It's just a lid that slides into place. It doesn't seal but any leakage would be minimal. The newer designs have a lid with a hinge and lowers deep into the basin.

 
I've thought about lids with food grade silicone seals as well. I've also thought of draining about half the oil in between jogs.
Bistro, I am pretty sure plastic wouldn't cut it! I guess you could drain some oil into half of a deep half hotel pan, and lid that.
 
Seems like the seal-able lid on the fryer is most long term reasonable solution. Thing is, a lot of fryers are constructed differently. So we are talking about custom work unless there is some kind of universal mobile truck fryer vat that one can think about installing so this issue can be handled easily and universally with an appropriate professionally made lid.

any grease leakage at all is too much. where could minimal grease spill out and be okay?

@ $30 a jug, i bet you would want to keep your oil in the fryer vs anywhere else

I would guess that the amount that comes out would be less than the amount that you lose every time you cook an order of fries, pull it out of the hot oil, flip it over and drip oil onto your grill.
Good luck with your silicone-touching-400-degree-oil experiment, guys!
DWags: That hotel pan better have some heavy duty lid clamps built into it.

Excuse the muck and rust.

Couldn't you just buy a metal can (like a pony keg or other metal jug) and drain your oil into that?

I went searching but couldn't find it.  Somewhere on these forums a person with a food truck showed what they use.  It was a large stainless steel pot that had wheels on the bottom.  The top had a lid that had flip-style lid lockers like you would see on a toolbox.  It had like 4 of them all around the top of the pot, and the lid had hooks that hung over the side for the latches to lock down on.  They would just drain into that before driving off, and pour back in once at a new location.  (An added benefit is you can filter your oil at the same time keeping it ultra clean.)

Might have been buck & vi's

Is this it?
www.zesco.com/Filter-Drain-Pots-For-Oil-pz030311MZ02.htm
 
or you can try
 
www.kegconnections.com
 
They sell used stainless steel kegs for around $50.00 each. This is what I use.
 
Hope this helps.
 

They sell insulated fryer oil cans on lil orbits website. Cat# A110.  Doesn't show how much they cost but thats something I'm going to look into getting once I have some spare $$

FriedTater:  The first link is the one I saw.  I am going to save that link because I googled like crazy trying to find that again.  That is what I want when the time comes.