Calories for cooking oils/butter

ShaeSweetness

Ive always been wondering, do you guys count the calories you use for basically grease in the pan? Like the minimal amount of olive oil used to cook in your chicken? Sometimes before I cook my eggs in the morning I just use some olive oil spray or roll a little bit of butter on the bottom of the pan and I don't really know how to calculate those calories or if they really even count. Do they make a big difference? Any opinions on this?

cwolfman13

ShaeTheSweetest wrote: »

Ive always been wondering, do you guys count the calories you use for basically grease in the pan? Like the minimal amount of olive oil used to cook in your chicken? Sometimes before I cook my eggs in the morning I just use some olive oil spray or roll a little bit of butter on the bottom of the pan and I don't really know how to calculate those calories or if they really even count. Do they make a big difference? Any opinions on this?

Oils and butters, etc are 120 calories per Tbsp...a teaspoon, which isn't much would then be 40 calories...1/2 tsp would be 20 calories.

Of course the calories count...it's dietary fat..it is the most calorie dense nutrient there is. How much you use would of course determine how much they count.

Sp1tfire

For a spritz of the spray oil I quick add 20 cals

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They count, which is why I stopped cooking in oil.

If you eat a lot of chicken like I do, I recommend alternate cooking methods. I started cooking in the oven and haven't looked back. I load up a bare 13x9 glass pan with chicken breasts and then salt and pepper. Put in the oven on low heat (300 degrees for 45 minutes usually does the trick). You get nice, moist breasts without the added oil calories.

janejellyroll

I count all my cooking oils -- they're calorie dense and can add up really quickly.

SolotoCEO

I count them. They are calories.

KelGen02

Oils and butters, etc are 120 calories per Tbsp...a teaspoon, which isn't much would then be 40 calories...1/2 tsp would be 20 calories.

Of course the calories count...it's dietary fat..it is the most calorie dense nutrient there is. How much you use would of course determine how much they count.[/quote]

^^ this

Keladelphia

I count any real fats I use (butter, olive oil, coconut oil etc.) as they have significant calories at approximately 120 calories per TBSP as already stated

I personally don't count pan sprays such as "Pam" since for the two seconds I spray them the calories are negligible but if you're trying to be really precise you should. There are calories in those sprays as well (a one second spray only has about 7 calories). They just can label the calories as 0 because they list the serving as 1/3 second spray which is only .25 grams of fat. Because the serving size, as created by the manufacturers, is under half a gram of fat, the nutrition label can show as 0 grams of fat and 0 calories.

need2belean

Keladelphia wrote: »

I count any real fats I use (butter, olive oil, coconut oil etc.) as they have significant calories at approximately 120 calories per TBSP as already stated

I personally don't count pan sprays such as "Pam" since for the two seconds I spray them the calories are negligible but if you're trying to be really precise you should. There are calories in those sprays as well (a one second spray only has about 7 calories). They just can label the calories as 0 because they list the serving as 1/3 second spray which is only .25 grams of fat. Because the serving size, as created by the manufacturers, is under half a gram of fat, the nutrition label can show as 0 grams of fat and 0 calories.

^^^ I do this as well, but she is right, if you get to a point that you stop losing weight, then count those sprays too. I just hope that my exercise outdoes those two second sprays so I don't count those.