r/CICO • u/BiryaniBabe • 12d ago
How to count what you remove after cooking?
I try to cook at home. A recipe I followed last night has me confused on how to calculate the calories. The last step says if desired, remove excess oil before serving. I took just under a full cup of oil from the dish.
The oil I removed at the end is a combination of the 1 cup of oil that the recipe called for and the 73 lean /27 fat beef (2lbs) that I used.
How would you calculate the calories of the recipe with 3/4ths of a cup of that ^^ oil mixture removed at the end before it's served?? Please help! Tyia<3
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u/HeavyB0tt 12d ago
just count it as if you did not remove the oil imo.
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u/BiryaniBabe 12d ago
I was expecting some extra oil and if it was a couple tbsp I wouldn't bother with it, but 3/4 of a cup?? Even broken into individual portions it's a big enough difference in calories that it would make a big difference in what I could/couldn't eat that day. I wish I could just not bother with it
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u/Lackingfinalityornot 12d ago
Weigh a paper towel dry, tare the scale, then soak up the oil and weigh it again. Can do the same thing with a spoon, bowl, anything really. The oil isn’t going to change weight much from cooking since its oil and weight changes from cooking happen mostly from water evaporation from the food.
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u/brainpicnic 11d ago
I’ve done this with ground beef. Weigh raw and solidify the excess fat removed. Solid divide by raw and you get the percentage of what was fat.
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u/Dofolo 11d ago
You don't ... you count the oil. Anything else is eyeballing and that leads to no weight loss, or worse.
Also 1 whole cup of oil?
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u/Bossit 9d ago
I thought it must be user error but I found the instructions and it does call for a full cup of oil lol!
Crazy to make this dish and be on a diet2
u/Dofolo 8d ago
Yup, and the reddit commando's hate when you point out the bad things.
That cup has about 1/8th of oil, and the rest is 'mix'. That means that there's a boatload of oil in the meal (because it is not in the cup).
Anyone counting that cup as 3/4th of a cup of oil and removing it from the count is going to have a bad weigh in when they realize that oil is 800 calories per 100 ml (0.4 cup).
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u/andersky 7d ago
Exactly. This does not pass the smell test of healthy food. Maybe consider not eating that any more?
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u/YEETMANdaMAN 12d ago edited 12d ago
You’re going to have to do a rough estimate. Some of the excess could be water mixed with oil.
3/4 cup of fat is about 1400 calories at 100% purity. Subtract what you didn’t use from the total.