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- Sep 29, 2022
One of the worst things they do is just top off the oil instead of draining and cleaning the fryers.As a general rule, I try my best to avoid fried food outside. I've worked in various restaurants when I was in high school, all of them with the exception of fast food chains change oil maybe once every 5 days, some up to 10. It's gross. Fast food chains actually change the oily once or twice a day, however, in perspective, fast food chains have a far greater output of food so perhaps it evens out a little. Some Singaporean TV did an interview of various restaurants, none of them changed oil frequently enough.
At one place, food inspectors found a rat in the deep fryer, the place got shut down. Ramsay's Restaurant Nightmares is pretty real when it comes to food safety of some of these shady places.
The longer that oil stays in the fryer and is exposed to heat the more it breaks down and free-radicals are created which get in your food and then into you.