Tracking calories of cooking oil?

use 0 calorie oil.. ez

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I put the whole bottle of oil on the scale, zero it out, then pour oil and put the bottle back on the scale to measure the amount of oil in grams. It comes out as negative, but works the same.

14g = tbsp

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best answer. but in general as much as possible try and cook without it.

and dont fall for the whole 0g of fat in the sprays, its only like that because the serving size is so small

Weighing isn’t a bad idea. Keeps from dirtying dishes. I honestly just eyeball it. One glug = one tablespoon. If I’m off I’m off by 10s of calories. Not going to make or break my diet.

It depends on how closely I'm watching my diet; when I'm in full-blown tracking everything mode I do that. I've tracked it so much that I can pretty accurately do a 1/2 tbsp and 1 tbsp consistently, verified by weighing it out.

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Not trying to be a jerk when I say this. Does it matter?

Use the amount needed to cook your food. If it’s consistent then you’ll be able to track your progress/body weight on the scale just the same.

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Yes it does matter, if you're tracking macros or calories.

I’m just trying to be accurate. It’s easy to underestimate your calorie intake.

I don't track it but I've just accepted I'm never going to be perfect.
If you brown a pot of ground meat theres going to be liquid fat left behind. Even if you don't drain it, some of it is going to stick to the pot, plate, tupperware container, etc. If you weigh a potato before cooking it there's no telling how much of that potato is water weight. It's impossible to accurately track your calories. I just do the best I can and find my maintenance then go up or down from there. If you're really trying to get dialed in you're gonna have to basically eat the same thing every day

The canola oil is pretty far down there on the list of ingredients. Won't be very much. Obviously it's not zero, but several tablespoons is probably a fairly negligible amount of calories.

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and dont fall for the whole 0g of fat in the sprays, its only like that because the serving size is so small

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I had to explain this to my mom who was dousing her food in olive oil spray because "it has 0 calories"

I've been told its 15 calories per second of cooking spray which makes sense. The FDA allows any serving of 4 calories or less to be rounded down. So if you assume 4 calories per 1/4 second spray serving size, 4 * 4 = 16

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It says 0 calories but one of the ingredients is canola oil. I probably use several tablespoons of this stuff daily.

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Several tbsps.... 460mg sodium a pop....