Cooking Oil Spray

Poobah1972

I actually purchased something called the Evo Oil Sprayer. And loaded up with 100% Avacado oil, as I tend to like it, it's thin oil, travels easily through the pump mechanism. It has a extremely high smoking points so it's ideal for searing a steak for example. Plus it's very neutral in taste. (Beware in 2018 a study was performed on available brands of Avacado oil, and only 2 brands actually had 100% avacado oil in it, that wasn't spoiled... many brands had Zero Avacado oil, and then the rest were either spoiled or a combination of other oils. Choosen Foods Avacado oil, is one of the brands that was actually 100% pure and fresh.)

Anyway a bit off track... Each spray of the pump sprays a nice fan like almost mist, and contains 1/4 teaspoon of oil. Which equals just 22.1 Calories of avacado oil. And as a bonus, Pam and other cook sprays are generally bad for non-stick cookware.

I use it for when I'm roasting some chicken with skin.. It helps the skin get all crispy with the various seasoning I like to use. I figure it only takes 2-3 sprays to cover my whole pan, and I'm only eating 1/8th of the meat in a meal. So were literally talking about 11.05 calories here. And I figure since it helps the skin crisp up, who's to say extra fat didn't get melted and run off into the pan anyway. I also use it when air frying fries for my brother and Son etc. etc.

I still fry my eggs in butter... Just can't have that any other way.

callsitlikeiseeit

its one of those (very few) things that I dont bother to weigh. I also dont weigh most seasonings or herbs.

kimny72

glassyo wrote: »

LOL so I weighed my cooking spray tonight and it came out to 2 grams. Not sure what that translates to but I didn't weigh the sugar free syrup I poured onto the eggs.

My can says a serving is 0.25g, 0 cals per serving (so anywhere up to 4 cals). So your 8 servings is somewhere between 1 and 32 calories. Considering there's typically around 9-10 cals in a gram of oil, I'd guess 20ish cals.

penguinmama87

Sometimes it comes down to the type of cookware you're using. I refuse to use nonstick/Teflon pans because they creep me out, and rely on cast iron and stainless steel. My cast iron is well seasoned and I don't have to add a lot, but cooking spray wouldn't cut it on that (I also frequently use lard or tallow to keep it well seasoned, which might gross some people out but it's highly effective.)

But for nonstick baking in a Pyrex dish, spray is perfect.

drmwc

I prefer the taste of olive oil to the spray I bought, so I usually use that. I try to use half a teaspoon as my unit of measurement, which is 60 calories. This seems to be 2 grams, so if a spray is 2g, that seems to be the same as my unit.

I plop it into a teaspoon to check it; I haven't weighed it. Maybe I should just to ascertain how far off I am.

lemurcat2

When I was losing, I mostly weighed everything, but for some reason I always eyeballed oil used for cooking. I think I can tell a tsp or tbsp when poured in a pan (I didn't bother with measuring spoons), but even if I were wrong, it didn't seem to matter, and I figured it was one of those "I do this almost every day and will adjust if I'm not losing" things. For spray oil when I used it (I usually don't), I'd log .1 of a tbsp or .2 if I did something like spray the veg.

glassyo

kimny72 wrote: »

glassyo wrote: »

LOL so I weighed my cooking spray tonight and it came out to 2 grams. Not sure what that translates to but I didn't weigh the sugar free syrup I poured onto the eggs.

My can says a serving is 0.25g, 0 cals per serving (so anywhere up to 4 cals). So your 8 servings is somewhere between 1 and 32 calories. Considering there's typically around 9-10 cals in a gram of oil, I'd guess 20ish cals.

Good thing I keep that deficit. I'm almost scared to see how much sugar free maple syrup I use. I've been putting it in my oatmeal/cream of wheat/cream of rice, over the eggs, and over the butternut squash.

Or (and don't judge) I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray. I use it for my cinnamon bread thingy and like the bread kinda saturated.

It adds up!

MsCzar

springlering62 wrote: »

Maybe it’s just me and the way I cook, but cooking spray leaves a film on my pans that’s hard to get off.

Before I knew better, I ruined several non-stick pans by using cooking spray on them. Now I keep an oiled paper towel in a Ziploc baggie on my freezer door. After heating my new non-stick pans, I give them a quick wipe with the oiled paper towel. And no, I don't bother counting that minuscule amount of oil.

PAV8888

glassyo wrote: »

LOL so I weighed my cooking spray tonight and it came out to 2 grams. Not sure what that translates to but I didn't weigh the sugar free syrup I poured onto the eggs.

18 Cal for the oil.

Unknown for.the syrup. From truly 0 or 1 Cal for the type of syrup and quantity you used , to the 350+ Cal of zero cal syrup I once used in a brownie like cooking experiment!

Which was actually even more than 350Cal because the isomalto-oligosacharides syrup I was using actually shows some absorption of the fiber calories the nutritional information nets out.... so it was much less useful for my experiment than liquid sucralose would have been! 😜

Whether it's worth counting depends more on your mindset and on whether it's inhibiting you from reaching your goals, or helping you towards them...