Olive oil

Rashawnab
Rashawnab Posts: 24 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How do you log and account for olive oil in cooking? For example I used a tsp of it to coat the pan for cooking an egg. Obviously it's not the same as swallowing a tsp of oil, or is it?

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  • OliveGirl128
    OliveGirl128 Posts: 801 Member
    Rashawnab wrote: »
    How do you log and account for olive oil in cooking? For example I used a tsp of it to coat the pan for cooking an egg. Obviously it's not the same as swallowing a tsp of oil, or is it?

    I always assume it is and log it.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I log the whole amount of oil i add. Better to be safe than sorry.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    edited August 2017
    I tend to log a tablespoon or 1/2 tablespoon at a time but I am less than religious about actually measuring when I am putting it in the bottom of the fry pan with the little oil spout. I have found that using a little silicone basting brush makes it possible to spread a minimum of oil around a whole pan. I usually do count at least 1/2 or a full tablespoon whenever I have used oil oil in this way. If I'm making something like a dressing, I count it all even knowing that some of it remains in the salad bowl. I figure it all evens out.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    You don't need a tsp of oil for an egg. I use about a quarter of that. Then I log it.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,672 Member
    I put the bottle on the scale, zero, dump a truly minimal amount of oil in the frying pan, put the bottle back on the scale, note the negative number of grams, then use an MFP database entry for olive oil in grams to log every bit of that number of grams. Why wash a measuring spoon?
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    I don't really add olive oil calories.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I log what I use. You'll probably learn to use less.
  • PixelPuff
    PixelPuff Posts: 902 Member
    If you can find one (my dollar store has them), I recommend getting a can of the spray. Easier to coat a large surface area of a pan with little oil. As for logging, the serving size says 1/? of a sec of a spray for 0 cals, so I do a single BLIP of spritz and note it as 10-15cal for safety.
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    forward0backward wrote: »
    I don't really add olive oil calories.

    You should because there are a lot of calories in a little bit of oil.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    I always overestimate my oils by weighing in grams. 10ml of oil are less than 10grams but I usually put the bottle on the scale before use, zero, then again after use and log that in ml. Yes, not every oil will be used in the end sometimes (frying fish or something like that) but it most likely will be in a pasta sauce or curry.
  • ghudson92
    ghudson92 Posts: 2,061 Member
    I put the pan on the scale and measure it on the ml setting. Then log it, even if there is some left in the pan because it's just too much work otherwise.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    I would log about half of what I put in for pan frying something like an egg. Have a look at what is left in the pan afterwards and that will help you make an estimate.

    Of course, if you're pan frying (eg a pork chop) and then making a sauce or gravy without draining off the fat, you need to log it all.
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