A food fryer allowing a fried food tank to be safely and efficiently
cleaned, wherein an opening part (5a) is formed in the side upper part of
an oil storage tank (5) so that an upper end part (5c) covers a lower end
part (5b) a cock (5d) is installed at the bottom part of the tank, the
opening part (5a) is positioned near a boundary between an oil tank area
(1) and a water tank area (2), a cover part is not provided for the
opening part, after a food frying operation is completed, first oil in
the oil tank area (1) is stored in the oil storage tank (5) through the
opening part (5a) by the opening and closing operation of the cock (5d)
and then a cock (11) is opened to drain the oil from those portions other
than the oil storage tank of the fried food tank (B), and the tank is
cleaned, and when the next frying operation is started, the oil in the
oil storage tank (5) is moved to the oil tank area (1) due to a
difference in gravity between the oil and water by merely feeding the
water into the fried food tank (B).