Deep Frying

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sherbear702
sherbear702 Posts: 649 Member
edited January 2015 in Food and Nutrition
How would I calculate a deep fried food? For instance, I'm making tostadas tonight and I fry my own tortillas. Getting the calories for the tortillas is easy enough, but how do I calcualte the oil they're fried in?

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  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
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    Measure the oil before and after you fry the tortilla.
  • zipa78
    zipa78 Posts: 354 Member
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    Mark them as tortilla chips or something similar. Or just guesstimate. Measuring the oil isn't much better, unless you account for all the oil that you drain off the fried food.

    Unless this is something that you eat on a daily basis, I really wouldn't bother trying to be really scientific about it. Just use something similar to mark it.
  • Showcase_Brodown
    Showcase_Brodown Posts: 919 Member
    edited January 2015
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    It's probably easiest to guess, using an existing entry that looks pretty close.

    If you wanted to be a little more scientific about it, you could do something like this:

    1. Weigh your tortillas.
    2. Fry your tortillas and set them on a paper towel to soak up extra oil.
    3. Weigh them again. The difference is theoretically the weight of the oil.

    There is a little uncertainty because you don't know if some water content was lost in the frying process, but I can't really think of a better way to do it without overkill.

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