If you're cooking lots of french fries, frozen foods, hashbrowns, and other items that don't create large amounts of sediment or use a wet batter, easy-to-clean open pot fryers from Patriot, Frymaster, and Imperial. Unlike tube-style fryers, an open pot fryer's heating elements are outside the pot, transferring heat to the oil through the pot's walls. That makes the large heat-transfer area and cold zone of an open pot fryer easy to reach and clean by hand, taking about 30% less time to clean than similarly sized tube-style fryers. The V-shaped bottom of open pot fryers also helps collect sediment for easy removal. The easy-to-clean construction, and sediment collection of the fryers, combined with regular oil filtering, could increase your oil's life.