How much does a gallon of Vege oil weight? Someting like 7.6 pounds per gallon?

I'm buying by the pound, so I want to be fairly accurate.

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yep seems to be in that neighborhood......http://www.fsa.usda.gov/daco/CommodityRequirements/Domestic/VP7.pdf 7.7lbs.

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It probably depends what you mean by Veg Oil, because different types will have different densities. FWIW, my handbook lists linseed oil as 58 lb/ft3 at 25C. That comes out to 7.75 lb/gallon. Maybe someone else has more data?

i just carried 4 cubbies out of a bar.. and they were heavy...
felt like 45 pounds each... I could put one on the bathroom scale for you if you want...

I think water weighs 8 pounds a gallon and I am pretty sure oil weighs over 7.
becasue i have been lugging it around...

in your mind just caculate that it weighs 8 and buy that way and you will give yourself a little bouns.....you might get an extra 10 gals for every 800 pounds you buy... using the weight of water.

I use soybean oil. It comes in 35 lb cubbies. 4.7 gal per cubbie. thats 7.44 lbs per gal. as mentioned different oils weigh diff. but it's close.

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Ok, looks like most oils are between 7.4 and 7.75 lb per gallon.

I just bought some "vegetable oil" from Sams for about 2.63 a gallon, using the above weights. Its sold by the 35lb cubie.



I think its safe to say that we should keep the buying of Sams and Costco oil on the quiet side.

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The BJs oil here says 35lbs, 18 quarts on the side. That's 4.5 gallons by my calculations.

$2.99/gallon here.

-Tad

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Posting it on a public forum is a good way to keep it a secret, shhh.

I poured a Sam's club 35# Soybean Oil cube into 1 gallon marked containers.
It came out to 4.6 gallons for the cube.

Water weighs 8.33 pounds per gallon.

Danny

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Try this web site: http://www.processassociates.com/process/basics/oil_vw.htm

Also according to USDA vegetable oil weighs 7.7 lbs. + or -

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