(AP) -- Phil DeVore pulls a folded piece of aluminum from a murky pond. The aluminum looks like a piece of siding that's blown off a building, but DeVore knows it's much more valuable than that. He slips a rubber band off the aluminum and unfolds it. He likes what he sees -- 50 or 60 glistening black leeches. They're your common ribbon leeches, Nephelopsis obscura to aquatic biologists.
Store the oil to be reused in cooking or deep frying for no longer than three months and avoid re-using the oil for deep frying more than once or twice, as the smoke point of used oil is reduced after multiple uses. Avoid pouring your used deep fryer oil down the drain or tossing it in the trash.
I never know how to store sesame oil properly. I don't use much of it. Every now and then I come across a recipe that I really want to try that calls for sesame oil. I don't keep it in the fridge. Just buy a small bottle and when it begins to smell funny I just throw it out.unny, I use olive oil up so fast I don't bother to store it in the fridge, but I do keep my sesame oil and canola oil in the fridge, because I rarely use them. Annie, get up off that lazy butt and get something useful done!