Logging olive oil

crazyjerseygirl
crazyjerseygirl Posts: 1,252 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Easy to log on salads, but what about when it's cooked?
Does oil cook into a meat, does it cook put of the meat? How is it logged?

Currently I log a tbls with my food but is that accurate? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
    Depends on the surface area of your meat.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    Oil doesn't evaporate the way water does (if you had it at a high enough heat point to do so, you would have incinerated your food). Count what you've added. If you cook a steak with a tablespoon of olive oil, count the tablespoon.

    This. Oil is calorie-dense so it's important to log it as accurately as possible. You may find that you adapt your recipes to cook with less oil once you see the calorie count -- a little really does go a long way.
  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    Some gets absorbed and some will probably still be in the pan when you're done cooking. I would log the full amount you cook with to be safe; odds are you'll be consuming less than that but better to overestimate :)

    ~Lyssa
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    I count all that I put into the pan, just to be safe.
  • peachyfuzzle
    peachyfuzzle Posts: 1,122 Member
    edited April 2015
    PeachyPlum wrote: »
    Depends on the surface area of your meat.

    Such is the answer for many questions in life.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    edited April 2015
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    I count all that I put into the pan, just to be safe.

    Same here.


    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    Oil doesn't evaporate the way water does (if you had it at a high enough heat point to do so, you would have incinerated your food). Count what you've added. If you cook a steak with a tablespoon of olive oil, count the tablespoon.

    My hubby is the BEST at cooking steaks, he adds more than 1tbs of oil. But he doesn't drop the meat into the pan until it's smoking, literally the kitchen is full of smoke!
  • crazyjerseygirl
    crazyjerseygirl Posts: 1,252 Member
    Ok, so it looks like I'm doing it right, thanks guys!
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I should have added, i still count all the oil he puts in. Like others have said, i err on the side of caution.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    christinev297 wrote: »
    My hubby is the BEST at cooking steaks, he adds more than 1tbs of oil. But he doesn't drop the meat into the pan until it's smoking, literally the kitchen is full of smoke!

    Careful with that smoky oil:
    http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/cooking-fats-101-whats-a-smoke-point-and-why-does-it-matter.html
  • Jgasmic
    Jgasmic Posts: 219 Member
    I log everything I put in and assume that it will make up for something that was not logged properly elsewhere.

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