cooking cold cuts to make them healthier?

yeah, this seems plain silly.

Just eat SOME sopresatta, not ALL the sopresatta, and you'll be fine.

try buying LEANER CUTS of meat and seasoning them to taste similar. There is a turkey pepperoni that isn't bad either.

It makes sense to me, especially if you cook them on a broiler pan, grill or something else that allows the fat to drip off, since that is fat you are not consuming.

makes absolute sense, you're rendering the fat from the sausage. but to do that to a nice sopresatta, just eat less.

Buy some of the Applegate Farms cured meats at Whole Foods. They have the nutritional info available on their website, so you can easily figure out how to fit that in to your day without having to "release the fat".

The difference in calories will probably be inconsequential.

In this instance, you are clearly using the term fry to mean "heating in a pan." Because the meats you listed are already so fatty, there is no reason to add oil. And if fat is released from the food and remains in the pan as fat (grease) ,clearly some portion of the calories are not ending up in your body. But, I don't know that this necessarily makes the food healthy. The effect on the total number of calories involved would totally depend on how much fat was actually removed and this could be pretty difficult to quantify. I know that when I cook ground beef, I always decant the grease into a jar and throw it away. Sometimes there is up to a cup of grease that I remove which is significant. I am not sure you would get this much of a reduction from lunch meat, but you could try.

Keep in mind that it isn't just the fat that is a problem. They also tend to have tons of preservatives and salt that may be equally problematic. Plus, the fat is probably why it tastes so good. Rather than focusing on what you'll never be able to have again, focus on all the great new things you can eat daily. You can still have your old favorites every once in a while.

I doubt that you could fry/render the fat content out of cold cuts.

If anything, you might be able to boil out part of the fat & sodium. However, who would want to eat boiled cold cuts?

Better to juts eat lean baked meat with no preservatives.

Hi everyone--I was wondering if frying cold cuts like salami or pepperoni in a non-stick pan reduces the calories from rendering out all the fat. Basically, I'm wondering if I'll ever eat sopresatta again. Please help!

What I would suggest instead, would be to put it in the oven over a rack. A pan will catch the fat and that might help a little. Frying it, even without oil will leave it rolling it in it's own fat. So that really wouldn't help all that much. Even full calories and fat content, eating what you want in moderation is the way to lose weight. Denying yourself is the road to failure.