Where to buy new cooking oil?

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I know most folks collect used cooking oil, but I was looking at purchasing bulk cooking oil. Figured it would be much cleaner, easier to handle, and would present fewer problems in the conversion process.



I've searched high and low on the internet and can't seem to find where someone could purchase bulk (50-500 gallons) of cooking oil, or even what the price would be.



Any ideas or suggestions?



Thanks a bunch!

Doug

 

[BPINE]

I have had the same problem, the only place I could find it was Cosco and it is way to much money to bother converting to Bio. I has got to be cheaper somewhere.

 

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Yep... A friend of mine who does catering work says that if he purchases it in 4 gallon cases from his local foodservice company, it's about $4 per gallon. It's got to be cheaper somewhere... like in 50 gallon drums.

 

[rrausch]

I've bought 4. 45 gallon containers of Soy oil at Costco for about 2. 80 a gallon. It has been heated to remove water and contaminants. I do run it in 20-30% mix with #2 Diesel.

 

[cj hall]

you can get oil from a (feed stock producer) ie farmer I found a place in Montana that will sell pressed oil from canola,sunflower,safflower, in rail car amounts

thats 28000 gallons. (the best price) talking to him about buying in smaller amounts say around 1000 gallons 4 carboys he thinks i could buy conola for . 35 per pound thats about somewhere around 2. 45 to 2. 80 per gallon 7to8 lbs per gallon (form a co-op to by in bulk)



did not ask about the other oils

try looking up soy oil on google

I will keep you posted on this



CJ HALL

 

[Grizzly]

Call some of the big restaurants that use cooking oil in large quantities.

 

[GOT-Torque]

I had the same thought, find some new oil and buy in bulk to elimate needing to collect used oil. Here's what I found... I called AGP in St. Joseph MO (this is a large scale company making soy oil for the food industry). I spoke with a nice saleman and said I was doing a feasibility study for a biodiesel plant in Nebraska (which I am, sortof, on a very small scale). To make a long story short, the minimun order quantity is by the truck load 48000 lbs which is roughly 6600 gallons (7. 3 lbs/gal) and this is at the bulk price of $0. 285 per lb which equates to $2. 08 per gallon of new soy oil. BTW, this was the price if you pick it up in your own tanker, obviously it cost more to have it delivered.



My next idea (which will probably get ruled out) is to somehow use the corn syrup byproduct produced at ethanol plants. It's 22% solids and very thick, however after speaking with a maintanence manager at one of the plants, he may be able to skim the thinner stuff off of one of the settling tanks for me. I have to wait until December when they shut down to plumb in some piping in order to do this though.

 

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I was afraid that the cost would be prohibitive... and I'm seeing here that it is... to me, anything above $1 per gallon kind of makes the whole conversion process a moot point.



I'd be interested in hearing how the corn syrup byproduct of ethanol goes. We have an ethanol plant down in western kentucky, so that would be a good find.



Doug

 

[MMeier]

Any of you guys try running "new" oil without going through that lengthy process? Say at a 50/50 ratio.

 

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Any of you guys try running "new" oil without going through that lengthy process? Say at a 50/50 ratio.

I wouldn't think that that new oil would work if it weren't processed or heated. I'm thinking if you went straight veg. oil, you'd have to heat it to 160 degrees. I don't think you could mix it with diesel, but you could if you processed it.



Doug