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Reviewer: rpaco from South Lincs 
I have been testing the 1micron filter bags on some veg oil which has white fat mixed in it.
I found that the tape handle on the bag is strong enough to support the bag full of oil, it holds about 7-8 litres at a time. The filter appears to be made of thick (about 4mm thick) fine white felt material.
I also found that you need two buckets and a a lid of some sort for the one you are not using. You need to be able to suspend the filter bag over your bucket
with sufficient height to allow you to swap buckets under the filter in mid flow.
In my case I used a bit of poly rope slung over the my wood rack in the shed and locked off with G cramp. This allowed me to raise or lower the bag as necessary for filling or bucket changing. I also found useful, a really large diameter funnel. Incidentally I bought white buckets on the theory that they would show up any particles/gunge better. (which seemed to work, well worth the 23p each premium I paid over the black buckets in our cheapo corner shop)
If you can settle the gunge out of your oil first and put the top good stuff though first this is better, it will go through the 1micron bag in about 30 minutes. The whole outer bag surface (up to the filled level) will be wet with the oil coming through continuously.
As the polluted stuff is added it will start to clog the inner filter surface and the flow will reduce. It may take 8-10 hours for oil containing white fat to pass through the filter.
I found that if/when the flow almost stops or reduces to only a single drip every few seconds it can be temporarily restored by using a scraper gently on the inside of the bag to take off the coating of gunge. This immediately restores the flow and the outside surface of the bag glistens again as the oil comes through in the scraped areas. Unfortunately this does not last long as the scraped off gunge resettles onto the inside surface again after a few minutes. I was originally worried that the scraping would force the fat through the filter but this does not seem to have happened. If the recovered oil in your bucket still looks murky then put it through the filter again.
I can therefore report that it is possible to remove white fat from your veg oil by using the 1 micron filters. Whether a filter of a larger particle size would be either quicker (probably) or so thorough is debatable.
Cleaning the filter after use is a messy operation which I did on the lawn onto a several open newspapers. Although I washed the bag in soapy (well washing up liquid) water and it seemed after much rubbing and squeezing to come clean; I found much later, after it had been hanging up drying for 2 days the bottom 2 inches was still sodden with water and needed squeezing out a couple of times. BUT then another day later the same two inches had slowly become saturated with oil that my washing had not taken out. (Albeit nice clean oil) So from this I learned that the washing needs to be very thorough. So for now they reside in large plastic bags waiting for their next use.
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