For quilting denim jeans.

When filtering veggie oil we like to use gravity and time to settle out the contaminants. We also use fine paper filters as a final pass and clean the fuel down to 2-micron. In order to reduce the amount of paper filters required used jeans work as a in-between step. The denim is used after settling and before final pass paper. I simply tie the denim leg ends off and pour oil through the top of the pants. A piece of rebar suspends the jeans over a 55 gallon drum. This technique is surprisingly effective in how quickly can filter 100's of gallons of fuel.

Where do we get jeans? Why the thrift store of course. They sell jeans for about $2 each, but it gets better. The thrift store sorts out the jeans that they feel are too damaged to sell and puts them in giant trash bags labelled "for quilting". Each bags contains about a dozen pairs of jeans and costs only $2.

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