made of high temperature food grade and or fda approved polymer material as the hot cooking oil is pumped through a filter housing fluidly connected to a cooking oil reservoir a fryer basket with walls and a bottom constructed of fine wire mesh provide surface filtration of organic contaminants suspended in the hot cooking oil before passing through the filter housing application_number US 201113341905 A description the present invention of a cooking oil filtration system 10 contemplates the use of a pump 20 fluidly connected by a pump suction line 30 to a cooking oil reservoir 03 of a cooking apparatus 01 see fig1 in a preferred embodiment the cooking apparatus 01 is a deep fat fryer in another embodiment the cooking apparatus 01 is a vacuum fryer the cooking oil reservoir 03 holds a pre determined volume of cooking oil fat or lard 09 food is placed within a fryer basket 70 and immersed in the heated cooking oil 09 the fry basket 70 comprises a fine wire mesh 73 with a mesh size ranging between approximately 50 to approximately 250 such that the micron rating is between approximately 360 microns to approximately 60 microns suspended in the cooking oil fat or lard 09 are unwanted organic contaminants 07 which are the byproduct of frying food in the fryer basket 70 the unwanted organic contaminants 07 can be solids such breading vegetable or meat as well as organic acids such as free fatty acids and organic alcohols suspended in the cooking oil fat or lard 09 any one or combination of the above listed organic contaminants 07 can alter the flavor and useful life of the cooking oil fat or lard 09 it is.