Onions

debswebby

If you fry onions in the juice of whatever else you're cooking do you log them as fried onions? Or are they still just onions? Do you just count the cals in the oil? It shouldn't increase the calorie count just because the oil is now in the onion. Does it?

Does any of this makes any sense at all?

grobbygru

I often just saute onions in say tomato juice or water for recipes - I don't think it makes any difference to the taste of the dish - and then they are just counted as oncions.

redfroggie

Are you talking about frying or sauteing the onions. If you cook them till they are transparent in the juice of what you are cooking then it's just a sauted onion. If you put them into oil till they are crispy then that's frying. In checking the food list it's only 10 calories different for 1 oz of each. If you fry or saute in oil, you should add the oil in the ingredients list.

debswebby

That's a good idea. I'll do that. Thanks :flowerforyou:

goodasgoldilox165

I add calories for anything I put in the pan... so raw onion and teasp oil might be part of my pasta dish tonight. ( I'd on ly record the onions as 'fried' if they went into my pan pre-fried). Heating things doesn't add calories - which is strange really since heat is energy - but there we are.

Fatbuster205

Are you talking about frying or sauteing the onions. If you cook them till they are transparent in the juice of what you are cooking then it's just a sauted onion. If you put them into oil till they are crispy then that's frying. In checking the food list it's only 10 calories different for 1 oz of each. If you fry or saute in oil, you should add the oil in the ingredients list.

Thanks for explaining that cos I never knew the difference!!

redfroggie

I add calories for anything I put in the pan... so raw onion and teasp oil might be part of my pasta dish tonight. ( I'd on ly record the onions as 'fried' if they went into my pan pre-fried). Heating things doesn't add calories - which is strange really since heat is energy - but there we are.

Heating also doesn't take calories away...A friend asked me if you have hot mulled wine is it lower in calories because you heat it up? LOL yeah I wish!

debswebby

Thanks everyone. That's what I thought. I couldn't imagine that onions suddenly increased ten fold because they have sucked up the oil you've already counted.
Yay, my dinner on Saturday was a lot less than I thought. Could have had a Baileys :happy:

silmarilliane

though i'd say if you heat it up enough so the alcohol starts to boil out then it would slightly lower the cals
and i've searched it:
http://www.ochef.com/165.htm
yep, but you'd need to simmer it for a good long while to reduce the cals to any degree!

debswebby

What's the point of Baileys without the alcohol. You nutter :laugh:

dls06

If it's in a liquid it's not fried. If you enter fried I think it adds fat from oil to the count.

rml_16

If you fry onions in oil, then yes, you count calories for the oil. It has calories. It does not increase the calories of the onion, but you still have to count both.

ElizabethRoad

If you already added the calories for the oil, just add the calories for the onion. If you didn't count the oil, (like you are throwing out the excess oil), you would add a few calories because the onions will absorb some of it.

bcattoes

I log the onions and the oil separately. I log the amount of onions, then guess how much oil is on them based on how much is left in the pan and log that.

debswebby

Thanks guys. :flowerforyou:
I was pondering this question on the way to work. I asked hubby who said that he didn't know so I said I would ask my Fitness Pals. I knew you would know. :happy: