Ralph Thomas Reed wrote:

What would happen if you added fins to the pan to draw off more heat.
If it has any air flow past it that would take off heat, right?

I suspect there is a precise balance between adding volume to the
pan and fins that would prove optimal with regard to how much weight
one was adding for a specific effective cooling of the oil.

Ralph

Would help a little bit but not near as much as a good cooler.
You need to get the heat out of the oil and into the aluminum.
You would need fins inside and out. They are called double surface
heat sinks and you can get them from Wakefield Engineering.

The largest I see in the catalog is 5.5 x 4.75. About $18. They are extrusions
so one could special order longer ones 4.75 inches wide.

Total fin height top and bottom is 2.6 inches.   Buy them un 
anodized and weld them into the bottom of the pan.

Paul Lamar
 
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