Olive oil

Rashawnab

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?

kavahni

If I put it in the pan, I count it. Even if there's enough left after I'm done cooking to smear around and reseason my cast iron.
The only time this isn't true is when I use a lot of oil to cook in, a lot is left over, and i can account for the difference.

JeromeBarry1

It is the same as swallowing a tsp of oil if the stuff you cook in the pan absorbs the oil.

I use a spray olive oil. Once, and occasionally since, I put the dry skillet on the scale, spray oil in it, and see how much I sprayed. I have two skillets, a large and a small. The small is satisfactorily coated with 1 gram, while the large needs 2 grams. This takes about 1 or 2 seconds to spray.