How do you get oil from food?

You can get oil from food by absorbing it from the surface of fried foods using absorbent materials.

Extracting Oil from Food: The Absorbent Method

While it's not possible to extract oil from within food (like from an olive to make olive oil), you can remove the surface oil that accumulates, especially after frying. Here's how:

Using Absorbent Paper Towels

• Post-Frying Absorption: Immediately after removing fried foods from the hot oil, place them on absorbent paper towels.

  • This is effective because much of the oil is still on the food's surface and hasn't seeped in.
  • The paper towels soak up the excess oil, leaving the food less greasy.

• Practical Example: If you've just fried chicken, placing it on a layer of paper towels will reduce the surface oil significantly. This is as mentioned in the reference, which states, "When it's impossible to curb the craving to bite into a crunchy, deep-fried snack, you can place the food on an absorbent paper right after pulling it out from the oil after frying. The paper absorbs oil which has not yet seeped into the food and is still present on the surface."

• Effectiveness: This method primarily deals with excess surface oil and does not extract oil that has already been absorbed into the food itself.

Summary of Oil Extraction From Food

Important Note: The oil you are getting using absorbent materials, is not the oil within the food. It is the excess surface oil left over from frying.