A restaurant wants me to leave a container for them to fill and pickup regularly. They drain their oil hot. I have a few thick plastic carbouys. Can they take that kind of heat?

I did that only once. Never again.

I suspend a bucket with holes lined with a T-shirt in my collection barrel to strain the chunks out of the oil when the restaurant dumps the oil

Here is what happens to a plastic bucket when a fryer full of hot oil is dumped into it:


I now use a metal bucket.

hdpe bucket can handle just under 300F

my test bucket has handled 176F (hottest so far) and never had any problems.

the guess the carboys have a thinner wall compared to a standard hdpe buckets.

evan