How to store cooking oil?

[AWorriedMum]

Hi Everyone,

I’ve been lurking on the preppers board for a while, loads of great tips here :)

One thing I tried was storing cooking oil, I bought extra sunflower oil (it was sold in plastic bottles) and stored it in the garage where it remained untouched for 2-3 months. Then I noticed all the bottles were leaking. I checked the one bottle I had stored in my kitchen, the plastic was warped and distorted.

Has everyone else been decanting their cooking oil into a different container for storage? Or do people store it in the plastic bottle it was sold in, like I did? If the latter, has anyone else’s leaked?

TIA x

[FlipFlops4Me]

I have a large flagon of olive oil and one of sunflower oil - the sort that store 5 litres. I've had them a couple of years. They're plastic, stored upright and not touching anything. They aren't in a room that ever gets particularly warm. They've not leaked at all.

My usual oil comes in one or two litre tins and I decant into one of those bottles with a pouring nozzle. They tins don't leak either.

Sorry your bottles are leaking - could you get one or two of those very large glass bottle things that people make beer in? You can get proper rubber bungs for them.

[AWorriedMum]

Hi FlipFlops,

Thanks so much, that’s really helpful. It’s just as I was beginning to suspect, people are decanting their cooking oil to store it in a more robust container.

If you - or any other posters here - would like to put up some links of flagons or other suitable containers for cooking oil, that’d be greatly appreciated!

[LadyHelenaJustina]

Mine just sit in their bottles. They have never leaked. I pour them into smaller bottles when I want to use them.

[TheNoonBell]

Never had any trouble and I have stored them for years. Was the garage very hot recently and could that have caused the oil to expand and burst?