How to calculate calories for something pan fried?

jessakittyis
jessakittyis Posts: 159 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm wondering how can you accurately gauge how many calories are in something that's been pan friend/ sauteed/ deep fried? Obviously not all the oil you put in a pan ends up in the food you cook so anyone have a way to at least estimate how many extra calories are added when using oil to cook?

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  • loconnor466
    loconnor466 Posts: 215 Member
    I do not deep fry anything, so can't help you there. But for sauteing or pan frying, I measure my olive or coconut oil and use the calories for that amount, usually a tablespoon or two. Most of it ends up in the food.
  • jessakittyis
    jessakittyis Posts: 159 Member
    I was planning on calculating in that way.. Seems like with that small amount of oil most of it *will* end up in my food.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    There's not usually much fat left in the pan when I pan fry (just a faint film), but if you overdid it with the fat and there was a fair amount left in the pan, you could either measure what was left by pouring it into a liquid measuring cup (and from there into a teaspoon or tablespoon), or weigh it by weighing a dry paper towel, wiping the fat out of the pan with the towel, and reweighing the towel. I did this _once_ when I had slightly more fat left in the pan than normal (enough that it would actually move around the bottom of the pan a bit if I tilted it, when normally there isn't enough left to do that), and it still wasn't enough to measure a gram's difference on the weight of the paper towel. So, basically, within my normal measurement error anyway.

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