cooking in fat

ChoiceNotChance

When you cook in fat, be it coconut oil, bacon fat, whatever, do you count the whole amount you put in the pan? You don't end up ingesting the whole amount. Just curious how others do it.

nicsflyingcircus

I do. When I cook eggs (fried), I dump any remaining butter in the pan over my egg.

Unless you're deep frying or pan frying and have a ton left over in the pan, don't stress it . In the case that you are frying, just wait for the remaining oil to cool, weigh it and subtract from the original.

radiii

nicsflyingcircus wrote: »

I do. When I cook eggs (fried), I dump any remaining butter in the pan over my egg.

I cook my eggs in coconut oil instead of butter, but otherwise I do exactly the same as you, and count all of it.

JennyToy

I count about what I use. If I dump the remaining fat over the food and eat it, I count it. If there's a bunch left in the pan, I count half.

SteveKroll

I'm probably a little different, but typically I fry foods in the least amount of fat it takes to fry it. I've found some fats become bitter tasting when used for frying, even at lower heats. So, with something like eggs, I only fry them in about a teaspoon or so of coconut oil, BUT then I slather a tablespoon of good quality organic butter on the finished eggs. Almost like a sauce. The butter tastes better, and I can more accurately gauge what I've eaten.

sljohnson1207

I count it all except in the case of deep frying.