My turkey fryer has an aluminum pot, and the outside of it has oil burned onto it. I have tried many different thing to clean this stuff off, short of bead blasting the thing.

Have tried some of the orange cleaners, simple green, gojo. I had to tear my burners apart to clean the mud from the bees out of them (shows how much I use them) and tried carb cleaner and brakekleen on some of the burner parts. Nothing worked very well.

Just though of lacquer thinner or acetone while typing this, but I boubt they will work either.

Anyone else have this problem, and how did you clean the pot?

Stainless is the way to go I think.

thanks

dave

as a last resort i would go to a motorcycle shop and try to find simichrome polish or flintz since it is on the outside of the pot. also buy some steel wool in around the 00 to 000 range to start. it will take alot of elbow grease but it should do the trick.
hope this helps
jack
ps. if you keep going to finer and finer grades of steel wool you can end up with a mirror finish on aluminum. worked on the engine cases for my 73 honda 750k3

Thanks for the info, not sure i am that dedicated to doing all that for a pot I could no doubt replace for 30 bucks. I have some simichrome, and some flitz. I'll give it a shot.

I also had the same problem with mine. I can tell you what not to do. And that is trying to burn it of with a torch. I put a hole in mine. I went out and bought a stainles steel one so I can use oven cleaner on it to get it clean.

I think oil creating a pantene on pots used to fry with is a natural thing. I bought a pot with a fry basket I use just for frying (in addition to my big turkey fryer pot. I expect to get that oil pantene on these.

With my dutch ovens, I go out of my way to get that oil pantene on them--that what the seasoning is.

I'm a clean freak, but I'm willing to live with cooked-on oil on my fry pots.