Oil Flask? Suggestions

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For those of you who canoe, quad, jeep, or car camp; how do you transport and carry your cooking oils?

I used to carry it in the original glass jar, then the original plastic jug, and then borrowed the wife's nice cruet' and all three of these containers failed miserably in spite of my careful efforts. My buddy took an old Dawn Dish Soap container with the pop up top and uses it. I like it for the convienance of the pop top and it is rugged plastic...but can't get myself to use a old dish soap container for food storage.

So got to thinking perhaps a whiskey flask of some kind out of a rugged metal might work. A small pint might be enough quantity but them boys really like hashbrowns and we go through the oil!

What do you use? Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
 
Any kind of small plastic container with a tight sealing lid would work. Find something and recycle it. Maybe a spice jar or a small pop bottle. I think that most camping or outdoor stores sell a cheap plastic flask that would probably work.

Or you could always just cook bacon with every meal!
 
Nalgene has some nice small bottles. Even backpacking, I have the smaller bottle with a drip cap for olive oil.

ROCK6
 
ROCK6 said:
Nalgene has some nice small bottles. Even backpacking, I have the smaller bottle with a drip cap for olive oil.

ROCK6
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+1

Nalgene and similar companies make all sort of smaller bottles
A small 8 oz steel water bottle
A small plastic 8 oz hip flask
 
Recycled 1L or 600ml widemouth gatorade bottles, tough, cheap and food grade. I have had mine bouncing down a hill before with no damage.

Plus if your doing some deep frying with 2 or 3 inches of oil in a pot it can easily be poured back into the widemouth once cooled.

For backpacking trips I like to fill the 5 hour energy bottles with olive oil, they hold 2oz which is all I need for a couple of fish fries and rehydrating pesto for pasta.
 
I use little the plastic squeezable Otrivine nasal spray bottles. They're just like the squeezable Vicks but a breeze to clean out in comparison. I put all sorts of stuff in these. They're especially useful for oil.
 
Be careful with those plastic bottles. They have food grade ratings for a reason. Plasitic is not glass, it can and does absorb some of the materials it comes in contact with. Wash them all you want, some of it remains and some will make it's way back into your food.

If you want to recycle old containers for carrying your supplies, go ahead, but stay away from any that didn't start off with food in them. Dish soap and nasal spray? Not a good idea IMO.
 
I take on way more Otrivine using a great blast of it in the specified manner than could possibly be ingested from a trace amount coming out of a cleaned bottle getting into food. If the latter were at all harmful the former would be lethal. I think it's less like keeping toothpaste in an old Super Blue bottle and more like keeping communion wafers in a redundant contact lens tub.
 
Recycle those disposable 20 oz water bottles that are so common. You buy a case of water or a single bottle at a vending machine and so often it gets only one use. Now the plastics companies are making them lighter so when it is empty after you use it for oil squeeze it down to pack out. They crush down really small and stay that way if you put the cap on to hold them small.
 
baldtaco-II said:
I take on way more Otrivine using a great blast of it in the specified manner than could possibly be ingested from a trace amount coming out of a cleaned bottle getting into food.
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Safe up your nose does not mean safe in your belly. One MSDS sheet I managed to find made specific mention that it was "hazardous in case of ingestion". But you're right, the amounts you're getting that way are probably small enough that they won't hurt you.
 
One trick I'll pass on is use peanut oil for camp cooking, it has a much higher smoke point than most oils, and if you are cooking at all like me it's probably a really hot pan over some coals. Olive oil is the worst, It's really meant to be used for light temps and in salad dressing and pastas, love the flavour though.
I noticed it's a lot easier cooking eggs and such without the oil burning, and the peanut oil has a nice flavour to it too.
 
Depending on how much cooking oil I think I'll need, I sometimes carry:
"Travel size" dish soap bottle, pull-top plastic, no worries as soap washes out easily;
old 35mm film can, cheap as most are given away at film developing stores, but getting hard to find now with the digital popularity;
a stainless steel flask, made for alcohol, but good for other things, hard to clean out so after using for oil probably best to dedicate it to that purpose, available on eBay in sizes from 2 oz up to 32 oz. or so. Easy to label with an engraving tool and permanent marker to avoid confusion in the future.
 
A small pint might be enough quantity
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Disposable water bottles are available in many sizes from 8oz up. I suggest the plain screw cap, not the sport cap.

I once used a soap bottle for water, after rinsing it out many, many times. Never again.... :barf:
 
Metal? Why add the weight?

Plenty of plastic/PC/nalgene solutions that are lighter, rugged and has a dispenser tip for you to control the amount of oil.
 
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