sauteed vegetables with butter

AlisonMacKay
AlisonMacKay Posts: 112
edited September 29 in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone have a good guess how much butter you intake when you saute with it. I am sauteing zucchini tonight and going to saute in butter but I know if I use 2 tablespoons that is not how much butter is going into my system. Does anyone know a percentage or anything?

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  • Sauchie
    Sauchie Posts: 357 Member
    My guess would be 1.5
  • Rilke
    Rilke Posts: 1,201 Member
    I usually log it all, unless there is a significant amount actually left in the pan.
  • perrytyra
    perrytyra Posts: 357 Member
    How may people are eating it? Divide by the number of people eating it. Or, if it is just you, like the poster above said, probably 1.5.
  • ChelDM
    ChelDM Posts: 145
    I use cooking spray to take in less calories. They have butter flavor...If I want the added texture I add a touch of olive oil.
  • Improvised
    Improvised Posts: 925 Member
    I'd log both tablespoons. I don't think much would be left in the pan.
  • _angua_
    _angua_ Posts: 35
    I'd log both, better in my mind to over guess than under.
  • halobender
    halobender Posts: 780 Member
    I would suspect that it's actually considerably less than 1.5 ... Unfortunately I couldn't find anything particularly definitive, though I did find the following, which may be of some help:
    The foaming [when heating butter] is caused by the water in the butter boiling away. The main reason you wait for [the foaming] to subside is simply because that means the butter has had long enough to reach a proper temperature for cooking: too cold and the food will absorb the butter rather than fry in it. However, this usually applies more to recipes that require relatively fast cooking.
    I certainly feel as though I'm getting considerably less butter into my system than I use when I saute with it.

    But like I said, I couldn't find anything definitive and, as with the others, mine is just a guess.

    ETA: I included the above quote so that your food doesn't just end up absorbing the butter ;) Also, the reason that I think it would be considerably less than the 1.5 tbsp others are quoting is because part of that is water that's going to evaporate. Maybe it's only that .5 tbsp. But butter has a considerably low smoke point, therefore I think that a lot of it kind of burns off.
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