[Stoves] The PROTOS Plant Oil Cooker

[Jeff Davis]

Dear List,

Caster oil is used for lub in model airplane engines, 2 cycle. Some say
it's the best oil to use but messy. It will produce a varnish on top of
the piston but for the most part this is not a problem.

Jeff



> Dear Peter,
> In Indian cookery, deep-frying in boiling vegetable oil is quite common.
> The
> temperature of boiling oil is 250 C. I have never observed the oil getting
> pyrolysed into carbon and volatile matter at that temperature, even when
> the
> same oil is used again and again, as is often done here.  However, your
> suggestion of using a water-oil emulsion is interesting and worth trying.
> Have you any suggestions as to how one forms a stable emulsion of water
> and
> oil?
> Yours
> A.D.Karve

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Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA